Comparison

CapCrop vs. AutoCropper

Both tools exist to solve the same annoyance: a flatbed scan with several photos on it that you want as separate files. They get there differently. Here's how they actually compare, features and pricing as we understand them today — CapCrop is still in private beta, so we're comparing what each tool does right now, not roadmaps.

The core difference: automatic vs. boxed

AutoCropper runs fully automatically: drop in a scan and it finds every photo on the sheet, crops to the edges, and deskews each one with no manual boxing at all — you can nudge a crop afterward if it's off. CapCrop asks you to draw a box around each photo yourself. That's an extra step per photo, and we won't pretend otherwise. What it buys you is control: mixed sizes and odd orientations on the same sheet are handled cleanly because you're deciding the boundary, rather than hoping detection gets a torn edge or an overlapping corner right.

AutoCropper details as published on its own site at the time of writing; check there for current plans and limits.

Where AutoCropper wins

If all you want is the crops — fast, zero setup, no account — AutoCropper's automatic detection is hard to beat. It's live today, runs in the browser, and a handful of scans a day cost nothing.

Where CapCrop fits better

CapCrop is for the rest of the job, not just the crop: once a photo is boxed out, it can be straightened, captioned, tagged, restored, and exported as a labeled archive — and if it's a color negative rather than a print, CapCrop also handles the orange-base inversion AutoCropper doesn't address. The trade is the manual box per photo, in exchange for a workspace built around the whole shoebox, not just the splitting step.