Last Update: 20.12.2009
and now an update...:
Version V1.04!!
My honest "thank you" goes to the following persons, who gave me tipps and/or crown-caps :-) :
Rudi Mende, Harald Gruber, Günther Engels, Elke and Carsten and Kamil Kaminski and Nils and Jürgen Thelen and Eckhard Lück!!!
What does Scan_KK do?
eg. Input file:

Output files:
and

Scan_KK can be used to cut out a fixed (but selectable) area from a scanned or photographed bitmap and to store it to harddisk.
I developed it, to get the crown cap pictures for my caps lists and my trading section on my homepage (Trading-Caps).
I put the crown caps on a scanner and save the pictures in the BMP-format. In my caps lists I had selected 180 x 180 Pixel a long
time ago. With normal graphics programs it is a fuzz to get always the same size cut, so I did Scan_KK :-)
Features:
First you do the setup (which will survive a program restart):

Than you load the bitmap of the eg. crown caps:

Do a double click with the left mouse button in the center of interest:

The selected picture (here in 180x180 pixel) is
shown in a preview window (sharpened if selected).
You only have to enter a name (here "mongolian") (an automatic naming
is possible too) and to press "Save"
(or hit the return key).
If the crown cap has not the correct orientation
(happens easily putting them on the scanner), only click
with the left or right mouse button into
the preview window to rotate the picture 1° to the left or 1° to the
right.
If you hold the Shift- or the Ctrl-key when clicking, the picture will rotate
by 5° or by 0,5° to the left or to the right.
Hold the ALT-key if you click (with the left mouse
button) into the preview window in the area "T", "B",
"L" or "R"
and the picture will be moved by 1 pixel to the "top", "bottom",
"left" or "right".
If you use ALT and the right mouse button (remember "R" like raw) the movement will be 5 pixel.
With Ctrl-L, Ctrl-R or Ctrl-F one can rotate the picture by-90°, +90° or by 180°.
All key shortcuts are shown at the bottom of the main window.
After rotation and/or movement enter the name
of the output picture or press "Save" or hit the return key.

License:
Scan_KK is freeware (better: crown caps ware), but without warranty and is provided "AS IS".
Download:
History of changes: scan_kk_changelog_eng.txt
To load the setup file, please click here: setup_scan_kk_1_04.exe (about 2.7MB).
Installation:
Run setup_scan_kk_1_03.exe and follow the advices.
Start Scan_KK in
the installation directory and press F1
to call the help.
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome under info@twus.de
and donations surely too :-) - and crown caps or mails, which tell me that Scan_KK is used.