start on cropping of a characters

src/crop.py

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+from PIL import Image
+from Pylab import *
+from LBP import domain_iterator
+
+THRESHOLD = 0.5
+
+im = Image.open('../.jpg')
+im = Image.convert('L', im)
+
+outer_bounds = get_outer_bounds()
+
+im.crop(outer_bounds)
+
+imshow(im)
+
+show()
+
+def get_outer_bound():
+    min_x = len(im[0])
+    max_x = 0
+    min_y = len(im)
+    max_y = 0
+
+    for y in xrange(len(im)):
+        for x in xrange(len(im[0])):
+            if im[y, x] > THRESHOLD:
+                if x < min_x: min_x = x
+                if y < min_y: min_y = y
+                if x > max_x: max_x = x
+                if y > max_y: max_y = y
+    return (min_x, min_y, max_x, max_y)
+            
+        
+    
+    
+