Automating Photoshop's Crop & Straighten Tool

Question

Does anyone know of a way in which I can automate Photoshop's "Crop & Straighten" tool?
I don't think this is as simple as simply creating an Action or a Droplet to perform this task, because running the "Crop & Straighten" tool on an image results in the creation of multiple new images, all of which need to be saved out at some point (either before running the tool again on a subsequent image; or before ending up with hundreds of new/unsaved images open at one time within Photoshop)...
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok, If you want to try the above method here is the script.
Run it when you have the layers created.
#target photoshop
if(documents.length){
var docPath = activeDocument.path;
var docName = activeDocument.name.slice(0,-4);
var Directory = decodeURI(docPath+'/Edited');
if(activeDocument.artLayers.length >1) CreateDirectory(Directory);
for(var a=0;a<activeDocument.artLayers.length;a++){
   activeDocument.activeLayer = activeDocument.artLayers[a];
   if(!activeDocument.activeLayer.isBackgroundLayer){
         dupLayer("#"+(a+1));
         activeDocument.trim(TrimType.TRANSPARENT);
         //comment/uncomment SaveJPEG or SaveTIFF
         //SaveJPEG(File(Directory+"/"+docName+activeDocument.name+".jpg"), 10);
         SaveTIFF(File(Directory+"/"+docName+activeDocument.name+".tif"));
         activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
         activeDocument = documents[0];
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function dupLayer(newName) {
    var desc111 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref52 = new ActionReference();
        ref52.putClass( charIDToTypeID('Dcmn') );
    desc111.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref52 );
    desc111.putString( charIDToTypeID('Nm  '), newName );
        var ref53 = new ActionReference();
        ref53.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc111.putReference( charIDToTypeID('Usng'), ref53 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mk  '), desc111, DialogModes.NO );
function SaveJPEG(saveFile, jpegQuality){
jpgSaveOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
jpgSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
jpgSaveOptions.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;
jpgSaveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
jpgSaveOptions.quality = jpegQuality; //1-12
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, jpgSaveOptions, true,Extension.LOWERCASE);
function SaveTIFF(saveFile){
tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
tiffSaveOptions.alphaChannels = true;
tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, tiffSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
function CreateDirectory(Directory){
var PathFold = new Folder(Directory);
if (PathFold.exists == false) PathFold.create();