PS CS3: trim bitmaps

I have a folder full of small monochrome bitmaps, shapes made up of black contiguous pixels on a white background. Is it possible in JS crop the image to the black shape, in other words, trim the surrounding white? (PhotoShop's trim doesn't work on bitmaps.)
Thanks,
Peter

Peter,
What is your intended use? You can convert your bitmaps to black on a transparent background, and Crop very closely to the black pixels, but then you will need to Save_As a format that supports Transparency. For a 2-bit image, GIF would probably work well, but PNG, or PSD would work too. Much would depend on how you will use these images, as one format might well be better, than others.
To turn the white pixels Transparent, just get your images into a Mode that will support a Transparent background, use the Magic Wand to select those, then Delete. You can Crop, at any time, in tighter on your black pixels.
Hope that helps, but your later use might dictate some things.
Hunt

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