Using Applescript to crop images in Photoshop

Hi I came across this thread in the archive
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1557555
It contains a script for cropping any image to a square image which is great but what I want is to crop the image to any size I want. I think the relevant part of the script is the following fragment - could anyone explain what is going on with this code and how I could adapt it to be able to crop/resize images to whatever size I want? thanks a lot
crop docRef bounds {(docWidth - minDimension) / 2, (docHeight - minDimension) / 2, (docWidth + minDimension) / 2, (docHeight + minDimension) / 2}

Assume an 800*600 graphic...
set minDimension to docWidth
if docWidth > docHeight then set minDimension to docHeight
set to 800, if 800 more than 600, set to 600
crop docRef bounds {(docWidth - minDimension) / 2, (docHeight - minDimension) / 2,
(800-600)/2 = 100, (600-600)/2 = 0... the top left x/y coordinates of the crop box.
(docWidth + minDimension) / 2, (docHeight + minDimension) / 2}
(800+600)/2 = 700, (600+600)/2 = 600...the bottom right coordinates of the crop box.
We now have a centered 600*600 crop box that leaves off the left 100 & right 100 pixels.
Going from x=100, y=0 top left corner to x=700, y=600 bottom right corner.

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