4 Replies Latest reply: Jun 24, 2011 1:40 PM by bonalymac999 RSS

    Crop Straighten and then Save

    bonalymac999 Community Member

       

      I'm scanning a few thousand old family history photos and looking to minimize the manual input.

       

      My HP scanner software is not effective at splitting multiple photos, so I cannot use that option. I’m therefore scanning a page at a time containing “n” photos where n can be anything from 1 to say 12 (that’s the most I’ve had with sensible spacing between, using the very small images produced in the 1920’s).

      What I want to do next is to separate these pages into their individual images, if possible cropping and straightening at the same time. I accept that this will not be anything like 100% successful. Some have white borders, some have cream, some have none, others are filthy etc. But as I’m retaining the master scans, I can re-create any that are particularly bad.

      I have CS3 Extended, and Elements 5. So far I’ve tried each and they have pluses and minuses. At the moment I’m leaning towards CS3. I’ve created a simple action to crop and straighten which I’ve run in batch mode. Its doing a pretty good job of what I want. But I cannot find a way to automate the saving of the cropped images.

      I just want to get a jpg (quality 12).

      As the progs open a new image for each of the cropped images, I end up with up to 12 new images, cropped and resized and with nice new names which has the file name/number Plus Copy. But as new images, I do not know how to save them.

      Is it possible to automate this? If so how?

      Any suggestions welcome. I did google first, but as ever, there are so many responses that weeding out any possible correct answers is pretty near impossible.

       

      Thanks

       

      Colin