Batch script in Photoshop to remove background. Path has different name.

Question

Hi,
I would like to make a script that selects a saved path in a image, invert the selection to select the background and then remove that area or color it white.
That's not a problem as long as all the path's in the images are named the same. My problem is that the pathes in the images are named different. I want photoshop to just select the first or the only path in the list and don't go by name.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks

Answer 1

Paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation, Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/ExtendScript Toolkit … and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
After restarting Photoshop the Script should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut directly, recorded into an Action, be used in a Configurator-Panel or started from ExtendScript Toolkit directly.
// 2013, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
if (app.activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0) {
var thePath = app.activeDocument.pathItems[0];
app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll();
thePath.makeSelection(0, true, SelectionType.DIMINISH);