Automatic Cropping for Photos

I just bought a new HP officejet 8625 all in one printer so that I could scan and save my family history including photos and legal size documents.  It saves everything as legal when I put it on the scannerand I have to crop every picture individually.  That might be fine if I only had a few photos...but I have 60 Photo Albums and 2 weeks to get all the pictures scanned and recorded before I have to return them to the family to be divided with my late grandmas things.  Is there an auto crop feature that I have not found or do I need to go buy a different scanner?

Hi @Jeannegoes2euro 
I would like to try my best to help you.
What operating system, and version do you have? Mac or Windows?
WIth this, I will know what software version, and scan software you have and be able to direct you to the necessary settings if available.
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