Adjustable bounding box for transparent scanner

[0014] The adjustable bounding box described herein a user may change originals, crop the boundaries of each selection, and issue a scan command, all as a single streamlined task at a transparent scanner. Final image files are all cropped to individual desired boundaries without further editing. Because the scanner element only travels once for each original, since a preview scan is eliminated, there is a fifty percent reduction in mechanical wear to the scanner.

[0015] The bounding box integrates a set of strips in the scanner that a user can manually adjust to form a rectangular bounding box over an original document to crop the document to the portion desired by the user. Together with a start button on the scanner's body, a user can change originals, crop the boundaries of each selection, and issue a scan command, all as one streamlined task at the scanner. Thus the user's time is conserved by elimination of waiting for a preview scan and enlarging and fine-tuning the bounding box