iphone - How to crop the UIImage?

Question

I develop an application in which i process the image using its pixels but in that image processing it takes a lot of time. Therefore i want to crop UIImage (Only middle part of image i.e. removing/croping bordered part of image).I have the develop code are,

- (NSInteger) processImage1: (UIImage*) image
{

 CGFloat width = image.size.width;
 CGFloat height = image.size.height;
 struct pixel* pixels = (struct pixel*) calloc(1, image.size.width * image.size.height * sizeof(struct pixel));
 if (pixels != nil)
 {
  // Create a new bitmap
  CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(
              (void*) pixels,
              image.size.width,
              image.size.height,
              8,
              image.size.width * 4,
              CGImageGetColorSpace(image.CGImage),
              kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast
              );
  if (context != NULL)
  {
   // Draw the image in the bitmap
   CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, image.size.width, image.size.height), image.CGImage);
   NSUInteger numberOfPixels = image.size.width * image.size.height;

   NSMutableArray *numberOfPixelsArray = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:numberOfPixelsArray] autorelease];
}

How i take(croping outside bordered) the middle part of UIImage?????????

Answer 1

Try something like this:

CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([largeImage CGImage], cropRect);
image = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef]; 
CGImageRelease(imageRef);

Note: cropRect is smaller rectangle with middle part of the image...