Automatic cropping of differing photos.

Hi guys, I spend about 4 hours a week doing nothing but cropping and re-sizing images of products taken by myself.
I need to turn images like this: http://inaudible.co.uk/temp/tcpre.jpg (originally higher res)
In to something like this: http://inaudiblegames.co.uk/images/products/000000003.jpg (actual file name will be added manually)
And opening, selecting the area around the (blue/white/green/black/jewel) case, hitting crop, resizing & saving, times 600, is getting a little tiring after 2 years of doing it.
Does anyone know of any comercial software available, any PS plugins or non-Adobe related stuff, that could accomplish the task? There's no obvious reference points, and the crop location is always gonna differ, but I could attempt a single-colour background if I needed to instead of having a mouse/monitor/cables all around the edge of the image.
I've tried the auto crop stuff available atm, designed for scanned photos, and it just leaves me with a bzillion little images cropped out from the photo. I just want one - the big obvious usually rectangular non-wood coloured object from the central area of the image. Crop to the edges of that, save it, and that'd save me a few hours of work a week. I'd even pay for it n everyfink

If I read you correctly, the way you're photographing these a person will absolutely have to be involved in the cropping process, as the products differ and the background is not uniform.
One could imagine a slightly different workflow where perhaps you would shoot the images on a light table or solid, smooth background. Even with that, I know of no software that will presently isolate the subjects. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist; I'm certainly not all-knowing.
You do know that the Crop tool in Photoshop can be set to do the resize for you, right?
Can you describe the exact steps you go through (every keystroke, mouse click)? Perhaps one of us here on the forum can suggest some steps (e.g., through a script or action) that might help save you a little time.
-Noel

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