How can I remove automatically scratches preserving the other areas of the photo?

I scanned negatives. Most of the scanned images show scratches.
For a given photo, I can easily remove manually all the very small scratches using Filter>Noise>Dust and Scratches>Radius = 1 and Threshold = 0 (Step 1). Then I can easily remove the remaining bigger scratches with the Spot Healing Brush Tool (Step 2). The only issue is that I have 13 000 photos to fix, and I don't have the time to correct them manually one at a time.
I have automated Step 1. How can I automate Step 2?
How can I automate Photoshop to scan a photo for scratches and when it find one apply a Spot Healing Brush Tool just on that spot with the required pen size?
Any other suggestions are welcome, as long as the quality of the picture is preserved and that the processing is automated.
Please see pictures attached.
This could save me days of work. Thankyou.
Environment Information:
· I am running Photoshop 12.1 *64 bit
· Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
· Amount of installed RAM: 6GB
·       Scanner: Canon CanoScan 8800F
· Amount of free disk space:
            C:\ - OS and Software disk - Total size:139GB showing 20GB free
            G:\ - Data disk - Total size:1.81 TB showing 437GB free
· Make/Model of Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Removing the bigger scratches cannot be automated.
Please do not be angry now - I don't want to offend you:
It is not reasonable to retouch all the 13000 pictures just now and one after another.
Not all the pics are of the same inestimable value and you never will need all of them at once for web galleries, a photo show or print.
And your digital photo frame is patient and is as happy with 25 pics as with 2500.
Therefore let the pictures sleep peacefully on your hard drive. It's good that you have digitized them and it's enough.
Someday you will need - say - 40 pictures for a gallery on your website, another day you want to make a gift of 3 pictures to a friend.
Then the day is come to retouch exactly these 40 or 3 pictures, individually.
:-) miss_marple

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