PS4 scripting

[paul.deitch]

Yes I'm still using PS4 (paid for) which does a million things more than I'll ever need or understand.

I'm using Vuescan (also paid for) to scan multiple black/white photos from the 30s/40s/50s photos on a flatbed and then using the PS4 crop and straighten function which is wonderful. I find the Vuescan crop and straighten function is not very reliable.
I found a PS4 javascript somewhere on the internet which can fix a folder full of images but produces jpegs when I want tiff.
Knowing nothing about java or PS scripting I tried a few changes but always get a variation of Error 22 / xx Has No Constructor, or Error 22: tiffOptions has no constructor, basically because I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

Does someone know the correct changes to this java code to provide TIFF format output files?

//Save as a JPEG to the outputFolder
var jpegOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
jpegOptions.quality = 11;
jpegOptions.embedColorProfile = false;
app.activeDocument.saveAs( File( outputFolder + "/" + activeDocument.name + ".jpg"), jpegOptions, false);

This is my latest attempt...
//Save as a TIFF to the outputFolder
var tiffOptions = new TIFFSaveOptions();
tiffOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
tiffOptions.imageCompression=TIFFEncoding.NONE;
app.activeDocument.saveAs( File( outputFolder + "/" + activeDocument.name + ".tif"), tiffOptions, false);

I have searched on the internet but so far have not found what I need.

[Simpo Two]

Does PS4 have 'Actions'? It's not intuitive but I've used it once or twice in the past for batch jobs.

[paul.deitch]

Well I worked it out in the end and here is a PS javascript which will do either jpg and/or tif and straighten and separate multiple images and might help some other scanner save a lot of time.

// cropAndStraightenBatch.jsx
// Copyright 2006-2008
// Written by Jeffrey Tranberry
// Photoshop for Geeks Version 2.0

/*
Description:
This script demonstates how to batch process
a folder of images using the crop and straighten command

• /

// enable double clicking from the
// Macintosh Finder or the Windows Explorer

1. target photoshop

// Make Photoshop the frontmost application
// in case we double clicked the file
app.bringToFront();

/////////////////////////
// SETUP
/////////////////////////

// A list of file extensions to skip, keep them lower case
gFilesToSkip = Array( "db", "xmp", "thm", "txt", "doc", "md0", "tb0", "adobebridgedb", "adobebridgedbt", "bc", "bct" );

/////////////////////////
// MAIN
/////////////////////////

main();

function main() {
//Make sure there are no open documents
if (app.documents.length > 0){
alert ("This script requires that there are no open documents to run.");
}else{

// Pops open a dialog for the user to choose the folder of documents to process
var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select a folder of documents to process");

// Pops open a dialog for the user to set the output folder
var outputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select a folder for the output files");

// Open and process a folder of Images
OpenFolderRecursively(inputFolder, outputFolder);

}
}

/////////////////////////
// FUNCTIONS
/////////////////////////

// Given the a Folder of files, open the files and process them
function OpenFolderRecursively(inputFolder, outputFolder) {
var filesOpened = 0;
var fileList = inputFolder.getFiles();
for ( var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++ ) {
// Make sure all the files in the folder are compatible with PS
if ( fileList[i] instanceof File && ! fileList[i].hidden && ! IsFileOneOfThese( fileList[i], gFilesToSkip )) {
open( fileList[i] );
filesOpened++;

/////////////////////////
// Put all your processing functions...
/////////////////////////

// Create a variable to store a reference to
// the currently active document, which in this
// case is the parent document we want to extract
// multiple scanned images from
var docRef = app.activeDocument;

// Run the cropAndStraighten function
// which will rusult in more than one open document
cropAndStraighten();

// Close the parent document we originally opened
docRef.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

// Process all open documents until no documents
// are left open.
while (app.documents.length >=1){

/////////////////////////
// Put all your processing functions...
/////////////////////////

// Flatten the document in case the file type we want to save to requires a flat doc
app.activeDocument.flatten();

//Save as a JPEG to the outputFolder
//var jpegOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
//jpegOptions.quality = 11;
//jpegOptions.embedColorProfile = false;
//app.activeDocument.saveAs( File( outputFolder + "/" + activeDocument.name + //".jpg"), jpegOptions, false);

//Save as a TIFF to the outputFolder
var tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
//tiffOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression=TIFFEncoding.NONE;
app.activeDocument.saveAs( File( outputFolder + "/" + activeDocument.name + ".tif"), tiffSaveOptions, false);



// Close without saving
app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

/////////////////////////
// ...in the area between these two comments.
/////////////////////////
}

/////////////////////////
// ...in the area between these two comments.
/////////////////////////

}

// go recursive
if (!(fileList[i] instanceof File)) {
var newOuputFolder = new Folder(outputFolder + "/" + new Folder(fileList[i]).name);
newOuputFolder.create();
OpenFolderRecursively(fileList[i], newOuputFolder);
}
}
return filesOpened;
}

// given a file name and a list of extensions
// determine if this file is in the list of extensions
function IsFileOneOfThese( inFileName, inArrayOfFileExtensions ) {
var lastDot = inFileName.toString().lastIndexOf( "." );
if ( lastDot == -1 ) {
return false;
}
var strLength = inFileName.toString().length;
var extension = inFileName.toString().substr( lastDot + 1, strLength - lastDot );
extension = extension.toLowerCase();
for (var i = 0; i < inArrayOfFileExtensions.length; i++ ) {
if ( extension == inArrayOfFileExtensions[i] ) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}

// Crop and Straighten function created
// using the ScriptingListener plug-in
function cropAndStraighten(){
var id333 = stringIDToTypeID( "CropPhotosAuto0001" );
executeAction( id333, undefined, DialogModes.NO );
}