Celebration of Life Photos - Please help if you can!!

Assuming that all scans had the photo in the same upper-left position on the scanner bed and based on the (small) size of the uploaded sample scan... Record a simple 2-step action:

Canvas size: Upper left anchor point, 503 px width x 343 px height.

Canvas size: Lower left anchor point, 503 px width x 337 px height.

You may also wish to add a flatten step in and or use Save a Copy as the image has a single floating layer that may cause problems if attempting to save to say JPEG format (the original PNG accepts a single floating layer).

Then use File > Automate > Batch to batch crop the originals using the action.

Work on copies of the original scans for safety.

Good luck!

I tried File > Automate > Crop and Straighten Photos on the image you uploaded, and it worked well on this example. You might try building an Action (macro) around that command and then use the File > Automate > Batch command to run that Action on all of the images you need to process.

However, be aware that Crop and Straighten Photos might not always work. It assumes that the space around photos is empty, so if there are bits outside the image that aren’t white, there is a chance it will not crop some photos properly and you’d have to crop those pictures by hand. It did work well with the example image, even though it’s not really solid white outside the image. So that’s encouraging.

In the future, scan photos away from the scanner edge and not touching each other, so that there’s enough pure white space between photos that the automated crop/trim commands can easily isolate and separate one or more photos in a scanned image.

Try recording Image->Trim into an action then running a batch operation.