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Thank you very much, John, the time and effort you have taken are really appreciated.

I have spent the last two days looking at how to make this work. Inspired by your help I have developed a way of selecting the images effectively for the crop and straighten function. This is by using an inverse selection based on image focus and subsequent color fill.

But unfortunately, I don't think I can get this to work how I need it to. The big problem is the crop and straighten function.

Firstly, for some of the stamps it is "straightening" images that don't need straightening, resulting in wonky images.

Secondly, it is carrying out the crops in a non-linear fashion. I really need the cropping to go from left to right and then top to bottom in order to have a safe way of identifying the images that are output. This is because each image on the sheet responds to a filing position that is assigned to the image via its title. Plus there will be front and back images for each stamp and they need to have the same name but with a different suffix (eg 1a and 1b for the first stamp and 49a and 49b for the last). I risk mixing up front and back images of stamps if I can't be sure of the output order.

I have searched to see if there are any alternative scripts out there that would allow me to carry out the "crop and straighten" without the straightening part and it seems there are none. Even if there were it would still not work for me if I could not specify the order in which images are output. I think I would need to write my own script based on a very deep understanding of Photoshop functions and right now I don't have the time available to learn either. It is a shame as such a script would probably be useful for many people.

For now, I will keep up with the manual drudgery of doing the work on a stamp-by-stamp basis.

Thanks again,

Paul