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Indeed. The deskew/straighten tool is a real time saver. I only had to redo one spread from each issue of Electric Brain because there were so many slanted boxes on the page it seemed to confuse the algorithm. It's possible I could tweak the settings, but time was better spent doing those pages manually. Cropping edges, yes quite a ball-ache. I have two crops saved in Acorn: Left Aligned Scan & Right Aligned Scan. Depending the orientation in which I feed the pages into the scanner (I was quite inconsistent this time) the scans come out either left aligned or right aligned. The saved crops get me 95% of the way to the exact crop, some minor cursor key action and press return to accept, then save it, close it, and next! Acorn has a great crop mode where saved crops, cursor key adjustment, mouse rotation, ruler guides are all accessible at the same time, resulting in a very fast workflow. Anyway, here is an update with a first pass to get opinion and feedback: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ygacekc82akv0/ (3 x 33MB cbz) I have done no retouching or color work on these, they are simply passed through my tools: straighten (full auto) crop (assisted manual; some manual adjustment and rotation in rare cases) split (full auto) resize and convert to JPG (full auto) zip (full auto) rename and upload (manual) Thoughts appreciated! My first serious scan, please be gentle matt

I make the same action as what you're talking about as well. I have to make a new one for each mag, since every mag is printed differently and needs slightly different adjustments (I sometimes need multiple sets of similar actions for the same mag if it has multiple types of paper stock within the same issue). Still, it only takes a minute or two to make one, so it isn't a big deal that I can't just use the same action for everything.

I have an action in Photoshop that will do the colour correction and resizing /saving all at once. What takes me time is straightening pages and cropping the edges.