Adobe PSE 8.0 - "crop scanned images"

Hiho!
I've bought PSE 8.0 to rework allready scanned Tiffs. Each Tiff includes 3 - 5 (almost aligned) images. Now I found the menu item "crop scanned images" (or how its named; I've a german version). But when I select this menu item PSE begins to preform something wich results in a 1:1 copy of the original TIFF. I guess thats not the result I've to expect. I tested a few other TIFFs too but the result is always the same.
The Tiffs are really nothing special. White background with colored photos. Hm, do I have to preform some adjustments before to prepare this action? I'm really confused.
Regards
luckshmi

The fact that your photo's are "almost aligned" may be what's causing the problem.
The Cropped Scanned Photos feature is designed to take a scan of multiple photos and separate them out into individual photos. If your photos are already well aligned, and seem to blend together, then the algorithm is likely having trouble picking them apart.
You may need to crop them out manually.
If you post one here, I'd be happy to take a look at it and offer some better (hopefully) advice.
Cheers
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