Newbie needs help: Batch background removal and auto-adjustments (kids artwork)

Question

Hi all,I am an absolute beginner with Adobe products and image processing in general, so please bear with me.I found heaps of our three children's artwork in our garage. I would like to digitize them and give them to the children as a lasting memory, maybe also print them as a book or so.To do this, I photographed the artworks, some of which are very large, with studio lighting on a white, lightable base. Now I want to remove the white edges from the pictures (which are all different in size and shape) and enhance/adjust them automatically. As there are really hundreds of works of art, I need a procedure that is as automated as possible, preferrable with 1 click.I am also not sure if it is better to crop the images or to remove the background?Thanks for any help!I have attached a few sample pictures.

Per Berntsen · Answer

Cropping is the right thing to do here, and you'll have to do it manually.

As for editing, you can save some time clicking the Auto button, but the results aren't always good, and you'll probably have to do some manual editing on many of them.

In the first image below, the manual edit was Whites +70.

In the second image, the manual edits were Exposure +0.80 and Whites +45.

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