Auto crop Scanned Images w/black edge? 1500+ photos to crop!

I have a job where the client scanned over 1500 photos but didn't crop them properly so there's random black bars & edges everywhere that I'm required to get rid of. Is there any way for Photoshop or ANY application to auto detect and crop & save a batch of photos? This would save me a TON of work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm currently running Mac OS X Leopard10.5.5, CS3 production suite, Aperature, iPhoto and more

>Wouldn't that make cropping unpredictable?
Only if the complete edge of a pic has the same values (and then really isn't it part of the edge? ;) ). Crop works on the bounds, so pixels inside don't matter. I think to really answer the post, we need a better idea of what these edges are. 0,0,0 generated by cropping as a bg color? Scanned rich black complete with detectable kicker rosette? Tranny black?
J

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