>> You might find the -trim and -fuzz options useful to remove all the
>> white
>> trim around the image which will do your steps 1 and 2 together: e.g.
>> convert input.jpg -fuzz 5% -trim +repage output.jpg
>> The trim operation leaves behind a "virtual canvas" which is removed by
>> the +repage.
>
> Thanks for the hint. I think that should help with my step 1 but not my
> step 2.
>
> I'll try some ASCII art to explain:
> |---------------------------|
> | |--!-----------------!--| |
> | |  !                 !  | |
> | |  !                 !  | |
> | |  !                 !  | |
> | |  !                 !  | |
> | |--!-----------------!--| |
> |---------------------------|
> The outer frame is my start state.
> Step 1 is to remove the outer (white) margin.
> Step 2 is to crop the remaining wide-format (16:9?) frame to 4:3 (that's
> the "!" cut lines)
> Step 3 is to resize to max 600 pixel height.
>
> Your hint should handle my step 1 fine (except, I guess, I won't be able
> to predict the output image size of this step).
>
> However I still have my landscape/portrait problem when it comes to do the
> crop in step 2. I can't just crop the left and right margins again, since
> I don't know the orientation.

Hmm, having checked the convert man page, I can see I could do steps 1 & 2
with a single crop, but am still left will the problem of not knowing the
image orientation. Maybe sorting in two directories is my only option, eh?
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