Script to make landscape and portrait images square

Question

I am new to scripting and could use a little help.
We are currently rebuilding our enitre website from the ground up. New look, new products, new images (about 2,800 of them). Here is where it gets tricky.
Some of the photos are landscape and others are portrait. I have resized the images to the required 200 pixels wide, but we are now running into the issue where they also need to be 200 pixels high. I could just separate them into two folders, landscape and portrait, and run two different actions, but I would prefer to run an if/than script if possible. Can someone tell me if this is possible in Photoshop? These are images of products, so there is no background.
If the image is larger than 200 pixels high, reduce the image to 200 pixels high. Then, enlarge the canvas to 200 pixels.
If the image is smaller than 200 pixels high, Then enlarge the canvas to 200 pixels high.
These are all 72 dpi, RGB images. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I have found this JaveScript that does what I need on the PC side, but keep getting an error when it tries to save the image. Is anyone able to recreate this into AppleScript with a correct save function... I am running a MAC, so I need an AppleScript. My coworker has Photoshop on the PC and is trying to use this JavaScript below.
//  resize canvas  & export JPG
#target photoshop
app.bringToFront();
// Save current dialog preferences
var startDisplayDialogs = app.displayDialogs;    
// Save current unit preferences
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO
// Source and Destination Folders
var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the Source folder");
var outputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the Destination folder");
ProcessImages();
function ProcessImages() {
  var filesOpened = 0;
   if ( inputFolder == null || outputFolder == null) {
   if ( inputFolder == null) {
            alert("No Source folder selected");
    if ( outputFolder == null) {
       alert("No Destination folder selected");
   }else{
var fileList = inputFolder.getFiles();
  for ( var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++ ) {
       if ( fileList[i] instanceof File && ! fileList[i].hidden) {
                 open( fileList[i] );
                 ResizeCanvas();
                 filesOpened++; 
  return filesOpened;
function ExportJpeg(filePrefix, fileSuffix){
try
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var docName = app.activeDocument.name.slice(0,-4);
var jpegOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
jpegOptions.quality = 8
docRef.flatten()
docRef.bitsPerChannel = BitsPerChannelType.EIGHT
jpegFile = new File( outputFolder + "//"  + filePrefix + docName + fileSuffix );
//Save Document As
docRef.saveAs(jpegFile, JPEGSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
catch (e)
alert("Error when attempting to save the image. \r\r" + e);
return;
function ResizeCanvas()
   function CanvasSize() {
      var docRef = app.activeDocument;
      var docWidth = docRef.width.as("px");
      var docHeight = docRef.height.as("px");  
      if (docWidth < docHeight)
            docRef.resizeCanvas(docWidth = docHeight, docWidth, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
      else if (docWidth > docHeight)
            docRef.resizeCanvas(docHeight = docWidth, docHeight, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
      else if (docWidth == docHeight)
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var savedState = docRef.activeHistoryState;
CanvasSize();
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
ExportJpeg("", ".jpg");
docRef.activeHistoryState = savedState;
docRef.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
docRef = null;
// Reset preferences
app.displayDialogs = startDisplayDialogs;
alert("Operation Complete!" + "\n" + "Images were successfully exported to:" + "\n" + "\n" + outputFolder.toString().match(/([^\.]+)/)[1] + "/");