Need help to batch color editing images on PDFs

We received PDFs (total few hundreds pages) with average 2 to 3 square-up images on each page.
Our job is to:
1. open up those PDFs, use the image-editing tool (right-click) from the Advance Editing menu to select the images one-by-one;
2. then edit the color using Photoshop, with a pre-save curve
3. save it and get the image updated on the PDF.
As you can see, it is a very tedious job for a project of close to thousands pcs of images to be edited in the same manner. Thus I were thinking of using scripts (preferable applescript but javascript is fine too) to perform the task but I don't know where to start from.
Helps and advices are much appreciated. Thanks!

Hi try67,
Thanks for your respond. Is there a better way to perform the task other than do it manually?
Thanks!

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