Alright, here's my plight, it's a little long and I feel like it's something Photoshop can do very easily and I'm just overlooking. 5 or 6 years ago I was very proficient with Photoshop, now I'm so-so.
I have roughly 600 images taken of a textbook with a digital camera. I do this every semester, just loading images of the book onto my notebook so I don't have to lug 6 or 7 books around whenever I go to classes. However, one of my summer courses we need the book in class, and the instructor won't budge on his no-laptops policy. I've tried to come up with a workaround, but I really just don't have the space to bring both books with me.
So what I am trying to do is take the images of the textbook, showing both pages, and crop them individually. Nothing super-accurate, just to get the background out. I don't know of a way to do this quickly in Photoshop for several hundred images, so I'm likely going to use a third party tool.
Then, all I need to do is separate the images. Ideally, I'd just draw a line down the middle and it would save the one on the left as OriginalFileName_1, and the right half as OriginalFileName_2. They won't be of equal size, that's just the nature of taking the photos and not being 100% precise.
Please, someone tell me there's a way to do this in Photoshop that I'm just overlooking, or at least recommend a tool that can do this. I've tried so many pieces of crap software trying to find something that can do this. I've resigned myself to manual cropping, but manual splitting just seems like a nightmare.
Thanks to anyone who can help. |
