Happy to know that you like cropping tool and that you find it useful. I agree fully with keyword "temporary": time is always laking, but we see two ways to develop it, to convert such temporary trick into definitive, separated files:

1. to use coordinates of image relative to image page to crop original image, or source high-definition images of the page, by a bot script;

2. to build a "canvas environment" to edit them (filtering, resizing....) interactively by users and to save the result locally or upload them into Commons in a simple way.

We are presently exploring archive.org environment to discover how take advantage of any derived file by that marvellous website (djvu.xml, abbyy.xml, high-resolution zipped images....).

Alex

2014-04-20 16:30 GMT+02:00 Aleksey Chalabyan <xelgen.am@gmail.com>

Aubrey> Cropping tool of Italian Wikisource was very helpful, and I didn't know about it. I was trying to implement similar template as a temporary solution (before image is being cropped and uploaded as separate file), in a different way, and wasn't able to make it work the way I wanted (standard thumbnail styling and functionality). So that was extreme useful, and I'll definitely use that. Thanks.