Crop Straighten and then Save

I'm scanning a few thousand old family history photos and looking to minimize the manual input.
My HP scanner software is not effective at splitting multiple photos, so I cannot use that option. I’m therefore scanning a page at a time containing “n” photos where n can be anything from 1 to say 12 (that’s the most I’ve had with sensible spacing between, using the very small images produced in the 1920’s).
What I want to do next is to separate these pages into their individual images, if possible cropping and straightening at the same time. I accept that this will not be anything like 100% successful. Some have white borders, some have cream, some have none, others are filthy etc. But as I’m retaining the master scans, I can re-create any that are particularly bad.
I have CS3 Extended, and Elements 5. So far I’ve tried each and they have pluses and minuses. At the moment I’m leaning towards CS3. I’ve created a simple action to crop and straighten which I’ve run in batch mode. Its doing a pretty good job of what I want. But I cannot find a way to automate the saving of the cropped images.
I just want to get a jpg (quality 12).
As the progs open a new image for each of the cropped images, I end up with up to 12 new images, cropped and resized and with nice new names which has the file name/number Plus Copy. But as new images, I do not know how to save them.
Is it possible to automate this? If so how?
Any suggestions welcome. I did google first, but as ever, there are so many responses that weeding out any possible correct answers is pretty near impossible.
Thanks
Colin

I'm going to need to read a bit about this.
I've read that post, and it seems as if theres a guy with exactly the same issue.
I've never actually written a script before, so I'll need to read the manuals/books this weekend and give it and the image processor a try, to see if either suggestion will work in practice.
I've created some test files, and I'll give it a try.
I'll report progress in a few days.
Thanks so far.
Colin

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