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The extractor trimmed the crop VERTICALLY to the wordmark's true edge, walking rows until a transparent gap. Horizontally it did nothing: left and right were the OCR box plus a pad of 5% of the word's width. Three defects fell out of that asymmetry, all measurable as ink touching the finished mask's boundary. - Glyphs were sliced when the OCR box under-covered them. Snail Mail's italic "L" was cut down the middle: 87 of 163 rows inked at the right edge. Padding now scales with TYPE SIZE rather than word length, because an overhang is proportional to letter height and a long wordmark was getting the least room. - Cover frames were swallowed when the box sat near an edge. Knocked Loose's mask had ink down its entire left column and across its entire top -- a border, not letters. - Artwork BESIDE the text bridged the row walk. A decorative shape down the left of "Lamb's Wool (with Poolside)" kept every row between the two text lines non-empty, so the walk sailed through the gap and took the line above with it: the mask read "WITH / POOLSIDE". Row ink is now tallied over the artist name's own columns, where that gap is genuinely empty. The column walk mirrors the row one exactly: outward from the name's columns while ink stays contiguous, stopping at the first transparent column (so the wider pad can never reach a neighbouring word) and at a near-fully-inked one (a rule or frame, the same boundary `solid` already recognises for rows). Candidate scoring gains a bleed penalty, because trimming alone made selection WORSE. A clean mark ends with empty borders, so ink still touching one means cover art is continuous with the text -- and that art is soft grey, which the `aa` term reads as superb edge quality: Folamour's smeared 246x89 candidate scores 0.44 against the clean 647x124's 0.03, and won. Penalising boundary ink puts the clean one back in front. Measured over the fixture roster: Knocked Loose 920x151 -> 872x88 with no frame, Snail Mail's L intact, Poolside a clean "POOLSIDE" instead of "WITH / POOLSIDE", Folamour back to 647x124. Camping in Alaska, Crazy P, Mildlife, Session Victim, Turnover, Alvvays, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Spiritbox and Todd Terje all still extract, each a little tighter now that the slack is trimmed.