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Image Trim

Trim image borders by removing unwanted edges and margins automatically

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/image-trim' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/imageFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-trim' \
  -F 'imageFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'trimMode=auto' \
  -F 'background=Select color to trim...' \
  -F 'threshold=40' \
  -F 'format=original' \
  -F 'quality=90'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/image-trim

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
imageFile	fileupload required	Yes	Upload any image file (JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF) for trimming
trimMode	select	Yes	Choose what type of borders to trim from the image
background	color	No	Color to treat as background (for custom trim mode)
threshold	range	No	Threshold for determining background pixels (1-255). Lower = more sensitive
format	select

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-image-trim": {
      "name": "image-trim",
      "description": "Trim image borders by removing unwanted edges and margins automatically",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=image-trim",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "image-trim",
    "arguments": {
  "imageFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "trimMode": "auto",
  "background": "Select color to trim...",
  "threshold": 40,
  "format": "original",
  "quality": 90
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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