Face Crop Jet

Face Crop Jet solves a narrow but genuinely tedious problem: turning hundreds of portraits or scanned application forms into uniformly framed face crops. You point it at a folder or a set of multi-page PDFs, choose a framing rule, and it applies that rule across the whole batch without per-photo credits or batch-size limits. Originals are left untouched and every crop lands in your output folder.

The framing engine is the interesting part. It combines AI face analysis with hardware acceleration — DirectML on Windows and CoreML on Apple silicon, with automatic CPU fallback — so it can detect the face, read the eye line, auto-align tilted heads and compute a consistent crop for each image. You can export face-only or head-and-shoulders framing, use square or fixed ratios, or enter exact pixel dimensions. Passport Photo Mode adds country presets that apply the correct head positioning, crown gap, aspect ratio and millimetre, pixel and DPI output for standards such as ICAO, EU and Schengen.

Beyond simple batches, there is a Directory Monitor that watches a folder or external drive and crops new arrivals automatically, useful for scanner and enrolment pipelines, plus a Windows Service Edition that runs unattended on servers with no logged-in user. The software has been available since 2016 and is used by HR teams, schools and photo studios.