Off Topic, Help with Batch Auto Cropping

I have 2000+ scanned slides (Nikon 4000 film scanner) in Tiff format, and there is a black band around each scanned slide (which is normal for slides - the scanned area is slightly larger than the picture area) that I want to get rid of. I am NOT going to crop them one at a time!! Does anyone know of a program that will do this automatically in batch mode? I once saw a program that would "auto Crop" photos but I can't remember the name. The slides are 30 years old ( hence the digitizing ) and I don't care too much about the accuracy, ie if it crops a little too much.
Thanks
-Robert

wish i could reward 100 points
me too ...
and another thing, once you do the l&S crop, if you want to move the location slightly, hit 'C' to bring up the crop HUD and the image goes back to full size again, but with the crop rectangle the same size as before and you can move it around if need be ...
this was an important thing that was introduced in 1.5.x along with l&s of straightening ...

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Collection: doubletnr
Title: d2
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Mode: 2
Undo: 0
Selected: none at 0 scaled 109479495 SR 44100
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=X

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all the best from austria

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Gary
"graphicartist04" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:gr14ib$l0l$[email protected]..
>I am trying to find out if anyone has had this problem
and how they delt
>with
> it. A non profit asked me to redo their website and I
transfered it from
> GoLive
> to Dreamweaver. I have been redesigning the website to
look more
> professional.
> The main problem I am having is the client is sending me
amateur flyers
> and
> pdf's riddled with run on sentences and poor grammer to
post on the web
> site.
> The graphics are terrible and need a lot of Photoshop
help. I cringe at
> the
> thought of posting anything like this to the website I
am working on. I
> have
> asked them just to send me the copy with an idea of what
they want but it
> seems
> to fall on deaf ears. I would be very grateful for any
thoughts or ideas
> on
> this? I try to get along with all my clients but have
never run into this
> problem! Should I just post the work no matter how bad
it is?
>
>

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