According to an aspect, a work station is provided. The work station is for use in a system for medical dose preparation management. The work station is operable to capture medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation images may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device. Accordingly, memory resources may be more efficiently employed while maintaining high quality medical dose preparation images.