filmscanners: Speeding up bulk scanning

[Mike Bloor <admin@seratel.ie>]

I  use Vuescan to scan one or more complete films at a time (I just sit 
there and put another strip of six frames in as each one is ejected), 
saving a 64bit RGBI file to disk from my Nikon LS30.

I then leave the PC processing a film at a time to create a .TIF and a .JPG 
file from each frame using "average" settings.

Then comes the bit that takes me ages - opening all the files created at 
the last step in Paint Shop Pro, and rotating half of them by 90 degrees.

I know that I can tell Vuescan to rotate frames as I scan them, but that 
would make the first step take much longer as I would have to look at each 
frame and type the commands in.

Is there a piece of software which will analyse images and make a good 
guess as to which need rotating - then do it ?  It obviously would not be 
able to cope with all pictures, but surely it could look for a blue sky at 
the top of outdoor shots ?  Maybe even an OCR type program could look for 
text and put it the right way up ?

Could it be built into Vuescan Ed ?

One last thing - if I load a JPEG into PSP, rotate it and save it again - 
does this reduce the quality.

Thanks,
Mike Bloor

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