Image Capture "Detect Separate Items"-how to selectively delete

[VitoJr]

I am in the process of scanning a ton of old photos and have been using the iOS Image Capture program which routinely works well. I have come across some old B&W pictures (70-100 yrs old) and the automatic "Detect Separate items" is not performing accurately at all for these, presenting several smaller overlay selections within each image.

Is there a way to selectively delete some of them and keep one to manually resize? I know I can delete all selections and manually redo them individually - but it seems there should be a way to delete some and keep some to resize.

Thank you,

Vito

iMac M3
Sonoma 14.5
Image Capture 8.0

 

[MacGizmo]

Click one of the round "handles" in the corner of one of the selections and hit delete. Hold the shift key down to choose multiple selections before hitting delete.

 

[VitoJr]

That process didn't work for me- it repeatedly deleted all selections for all images.

What does work is clicking on white space which changes the images from the handles to a dotted line. At that point I can selectively delete and resize as needed for individual photos.

Thanks for responding.

Vito