Total noob, need help

Question

I've never scripted Photoshop ever, but I am c# guy during the day, so I know programming
Ok, here is what I do right now: I place 3 photos into my scanner, scan them into Photoshop CS4 using the File/Import/Scanner menu item.  Then I go to File/Automate/Crop and Straighten Photos to split up the image into 3 photos.  Photoshop creates a tab for each photo.  Then I go to each individual tab and save each picture.  Then start again with the scanning - rinse and repeat.
This is kind of tedious.  I am looking to automate all or some portion of this task.  For instance, I would love it, if there was a script that responded to the Image Imported from Scanner event (if such a thing even exists), split the photos into 3 using the Crop and Straighten Photos command and saved each photo as a PNG (without getting the stupid dialog box asking me whether I was it interlaced or not).  The routine that saves the photos, would have to look in the directory and name the file in a numeric fashion (e.g. p1.png, p2.png, p3.png, etc...) and not overwrite photos.
Is such a thing possible?  If so, what are some of the resources I should look at?  Is there something simpler (like maybe a macro recorder), that I am not looking at? 
Thanks.

Answer 1

One way of doing it would be to do all the scans and place the files in their own folder (jpg/tif/pdf)
Then you can run the following script that will create a new folder off the existing one and batch split all the files naming them existingFileName#001.png and put them in the new folder (edited)
#target Photoshop
app.bringToFront;
var inFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select folder to process");
if(inFolder != null){
var fileList = inFolder.getFiles(/\.(jpg|tif|psd|)$/i);
var outfolder = new Folder(decodeURI(inFolder) + "/Edited");
if (outfolder.exists == false) outfolder.create();
for(var a = 0 ;a < fileList.length; a++){
if(fileList[a] instanceof File){
var doc= open(fileList[a]);
doc.flatten();
var docname = fileList[a].name.slice(0,-4);
CropStraighten();
doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
var count = 1;
while(app.documents.length){
var saveFile = new File(decodeURI(outfolder) + "/" + docname +"#"+ zeroPad(count,3) + ".png");
SavePNG(saveFile);
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES) ;
count++;
function CropStraighten() {
function cTID(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };
function sTID(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };
executeAction( sTID('CropPhotosAuto0001'), undefined, DialogModes.NO );
function SavePNG(saveFile){
    pngSaveOptions = new PNGSaveOptions();
    pngSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
    pngSaveOptions.formatOptions = FormatOptions.STANDARDBASELINE;
    pngSaveOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
    pngSaveOptions.quality = 1;
pngSaveOptions.PNG8 = false; //24 bit PNG
    pngSaveOptions.transparency = true;
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, pngSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
function zeroPad(n, s) {
n = n.toString();
while (n.length < s) n = '0' + n;
return n;