Can the Gimp split an image into multiple images?

Question

I've been scanning a lot of photos recently, more than one at a time. I now have multiple jpegs, each containing multiple photos.

Can I, using Gimp, "split" a jpg into 3 smaller files ?

What I used to do is : copy the jpg 3 times, and crop a different picture in each copy.

There must be an easier way to do this !

EDIT : Is there a plugin that can do that ? I've looked around, but only found plugins that "cut" an image into pieces of equal size.

Answer 1

ImageMagick. It's a command-line tool but amazingly powerful and flexible so worth the effort to learn it. For example:

convert -extract 1024x1024+0+0 original.png target.png

Where:

• 1024x1024 is the width and height of the required crop
• +0+0 are x and y offsets into the original image

You can stick dozens of these commands into a .cmd file and run them effortlessly.

Look at the ImageMagick documentation to see there are thousands of options to these commands. A very powerful tool and open source too!

Answer 2

You can do it like this:

• Rectangle select an image
• Edit -> Copy
• Edit -> Paste as -> New Image

Answer 3

Michael's Paste as -> New Image works, but I generally use Cut rather than Copy so I don't duplicate content.

Answer 4

I've been using the Divide Scanned Images plug-in which works well.