Hi [USER=143066]@883robert[/USER]
I will give you one path to take (I have used it myself with PrinFile) that is not perfect yet may meet your needs.
The key to all of this is there must be at least a few gray levels of separation from the black between the images and the images themselves. This also works better if you have scanned to PNG or TIFF and not use JPEG as JPEG hides artifacts in the large single color/tone areas which impacts the results. Another key is that you should only have one PrintFile image open in Photoshop at a time (no other documents loaded)
First, since PrintFile are all the same size, you can create a template that is strips of black between the rows of images to cover up the film type and the frame numbers. One manual piece is that it is best to black out partial negatives or have an effective black frame around the part you want to keep. here is an example of what the result should appear to be once those first two steps are taken:
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Then you use the command in Photoshop File > Automation > Crop and Straighten Photos
This command will search for image boundaries are extract each of them as its own open document in Photoshop.
From there you have two choices. You can save all of the open images to where you want to have them individually saved and later examined per your own needs.
And/or alternately (and also to show how well this worked), I took all the open documents and created contacts sheets with the File >Automation> Contact Sheet II (lots of paramenters) and here is an image of what I used:
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And here are the screen shots of the two contact print documents that were created:
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Note that the extracted images were not perfect because the contrast was not very good between the border of the images and the strips between the negatives yet it did better than I expected. You can see that it did not extract each image perfectly and created an extra image with what it found.
So I think these two built in tools and setting up the initial image for them to work just might do it for you.
Just a suggestion to consider
John Wheeler
