Need to automate resizing of 1000s of images

I have approximately 7000 images they are either 400 pixels tall or wide or 450 pixels tall or wide. This are product images and Amazon requires the images be 1000 pixels wide or tall. Is there a way to automate the process so PS recognizes longest side and it height/width and enlarges to 1000 pixels. If so, what is the magic formula?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Yes you would be better off staring with bigger image file. Then all you need is a single step action that you batch. The single step in the required action is menu "File>Automate>Fit Image" in the fit images dialog you enter 1000 for both width and height and Click OK. The 1000 width and height gets recorded into the action step and no dialog is displayed when the action is used. Once you have that action you batch it on your image file using menu "File>Automate>Batch" in the batch dialog you select which action set you fit image action is in. You the select your 1000x1000 fit image action in that set. You select which folder your large image files are in and you set which folder to save the resized images in.
Batch should be faster then the Image processor for the image processor is a script and it uses the Automate Plug-in script Fit Image to do its resizing, Batch is a Built in Photoshop Plug-in and should execute faster for it is doing less and is compiled code not an interpreted script

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