is there any lightweight command line batch image cropping tool(Linux or Windows) which can handle a variety of the formats ?
Imagemagick's convert does the trick for me (and much more than cropping):
convert -crop +100+10 in.jpg out.jpg
crops 100 pixels off the left border, 10 pixels from the top.
convert -crop -100+0 in.jpg out.jpg
crops 100 pixels off the right, and so on. The Imagemagick website knows more:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop