Scanning Large Amounts of Pictures?

ClintJCL asks: "My wife & I are involved in scanning every photo I've ever taken in my life. She can lay down 4 or 5 pictures into the flatbed scanner at once, thereby saving the scanning time which is the bottleneck. But then she has to split them with Photoshop, which is also somewhat time-consuming. I've searched on the net for hours for a piece of software that would automatically split these 'Batch image scans' into single images and it just doesn't seem to exist. There are plenty of pieces of software to split a single image arbitrarily into sections for the purpose of loading faster on an HTML page (which I disagree with anyway and is not what I'm looking for). But -nothing- that seems to do any sort of edge-detection to determine what pictures exist in a given 'scan batch'. I'm out of resources. I've nowhere else to go. Perhaps someone can clue me in on a piece of software that can do this for me."

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Learn to use the scanner software

[cybermace5]

Just to verify what other have been saying about typical scanner software:

I haven't run into a scanner that didn't let you define jobs or a batch scan feature. Everything from an HP SCSI monster 8 years ago, to a slick new USB scanner, to my $35 UBid special Mustek parallel scanner. It is a pretty basic feature.

Just check through the TWAIN interface and look for something involving batch scanning. Just out of curiosity, did you buy your copy of Photoshop? Or are you using a "lite" version that came with the scanner? I just ask because GIMP has given me all the tools I've ever needed.

Yet again, an Ask Slashdot question appears to be a stumper, but really is something that a tech support operator (or small child) should deal with.