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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Why use files?

[fm6]

You're assuming the next step is to split the composite image into individual image files. Not necessarily. If I were doing this, I'd just select the images, one at a time, and copy them into the clipboard.

What? You say your clipboard only holds one image? Not if you're using a clipboard extender. I use Clipmate, though you might prefer one that's specially oriented towards handling graphics.

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