Scanned images, borders, cropping and "auto enhance"

Afternoon.
I'm converting old slides / negatives to digital, and am aiming to store the results in aperture.
I'm still fighting through the manuals etc. and trying to work out a workflow that works for me between Silverfast and Aperture. One of the decisions to make is where / how to do the first pass "auto improve" steps. I'm keeping the "raw" scan (HDRi, 64bTIFF etc.) to reprocess the ones I'm really interested in later, but I'd like as automatic / quick a process as possible to actually get the images into Aperture, and looking OK, first.
Many of the images have some black or white borders from the edge of the slide holder / curved corner of the slide being included in the original scan (the "autocropping" in Silverfast is kind of rubbish).
How does "auto enhance" work with regard to this non-photo information? Do I need to crop before hitting "auto enhance" (so it's not factoring in the edges?)? Can it be automatically "refreshed" after cropping? Any other advice?
I know some of the manuals on silverfast mention needing to crop this stuff out before using their "auto enhance" like features, but it's another time consuming process, and something I'd rather be able to undo (i.e. uncrop if I decide later I want the original curved corners / edge detail back).
Hope that made some sense.
Thanks.

I'll correct my answer.  It's simpler than I thought and works well.
In Acrobat X I can use Tools/Recognize Text/ Aa In This File which will deskew and process page(s) for OCR, i.e. make it a searchable document.  When I do this on a multiple manually scanned document which has pages upside down,
the deskew rotates them 180 degrees, that is corrects the manual scan orientation.
This worked with pages of both landscape and portrait, but haven't tried with 'sideways' manual scan.
All the incorrect pages were upside down.  There's also a selection to do this with Aa Multiple files, which I haven't tried.
The deskewing in the others I've tried with this menu choice have all been accurately straightened and the text of all kinds remarkably is not only searchable but can be copied and pasted into other documents/applications with Control C and Control V.

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