1. Hook up your scanner to your Linux PC. (I'm using Linux Mint 14.)
2. Scan the photos with Simple Scan.

3. Save and rename the scanned image.


4. Open Gimp Editor.

5. Open the scanned image.

6. Go to Tools and choose Select | Rectangular Select.

7. Move the mouse pointer to upper left corner of scanned image and hold down left mouse button

and drag the pointer to the lower right hand corner of scanned image until it is completely outlined. Release left mouse button.

8. Go to Edit | Cut.

9. Go to File | Close. (Closes new Gimp session.)



10. Go to Edit | Paste. (Saves scanned image over first Gimp session.)

11. Go to File | Export.

12. Type name of file

13. Select PNG format.

14. Click on Export.


15. After you close out of Gimp, the finished product looks like this!

Here's a video tutorial I did on this topic.
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