### 28.1.9 Trimming image margins

Margins of an image, consisting of “empty” pixels with value 0 in all color channels, can be found and removed by using the trim command (see Section 5.2.5, Section 21.2.2 and Section 28.2.2 for other usages of trim).

- trim takes one mandatory argument and one or two optional arguments:
  - img, an image object.
  - Optionally, inv, the symbol.
  - Optionally, index, the symbol.
- trim(img ⟨,inv ⟩ ⟨,index ⟩) finds largest zero-pixel margins in img or its inversion if inv is given. If index is given, then the trimmed slice location (x,y) and dimensions (w,h) are returned as a sequence (x,y,w,h). Otherwise, a trimmed version of img is returned.
- To remove white margins, include the option inv when calling trim.

#### Example

img:=image("/home/luka/Downloads/mnist_png/training/1/552.png")

an image of size 28×28 (grayscale) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

display(img)

display(trim(img))

trim(img,index)

7,3,11,20 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |