Adjust Levels/Brightness/Contrast on 200pp PDF

I have a PDF document of scanned documents and all the scans are under-exposed. I need to adjust levels/contrast/brightness on all the pages. For a start I want to apply the same set of changes to every page of the PDF. I'll then place the PDF pages onto InDesign Pages and Print as a booklet to get pagination for sadle stiching using the included Applescript.
Is there and automated way I can process all the pages in PS and apply a standard set of changes to all the pages and then save the document including the page number so as I can reassemble as a single document in Acrobat to then import to InDesign using the aforementioned Applescript?

You could creat an action to do the required changes and use http://www.scriptsrus.talktalk.net/Pdfprocessor.htm to run the action on all the pages.

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