Mi rispondo da solo. Ho trovato questo script che esegue un crop secondo le dimensioni specificate
Codice PHP:
function create_thumb($nw$nh$source$stype$dest) {
    
$size getimagesize($source);
    
$w $size[0];
    
$h $size[1];
    switch(
$stype) {
        case 
'gif':
        
$simg imagecreatefromgif($source);
        break;
        case 
'jpg':
        
$simg imagecreatefromjpeg($source);
        break;
        case 
'png':
        
$simg imagecreatefrompng($source);
        break;
    }
    
$dimg imagecreatetruecolor($nw$nh);
    
$wm $w/$nw;
    
$hm $h/$nh;
    
$h_height $nh/2;
    
$w_height $nw/2;
    if(
$wm$hm) {
        
$adjusted_width $w $hm;
        
$half_width $adjusted_width 2;
        
$int_width $half_width $w_height;
        
imagecopyresampled($dimg,$simg,-$int_width,0,0,0,$adjusted_width,$nh,$w,$h);
    } elseif((
$wm <$hm) || ($w == $h)) {
        
$adjusted_height $h $wm;
        
$half_height $adjusted_height 2;
        
$int_height $half_height $h_height;
        
imagecopyresampled($dimg,$simg,0,-$int_height,0,0,$nw,$adjusted_height,$w,$h);
    } else {
        
imagecopyresampled($dimg,$simg,0,0,0,0,$nw,$nh,$w,$h);
    }
    
imagejpeg($dimg,$dest,78);