Solution to detect & extract pictures from scans?

[luckshmi]

Hello XnView community!

I have dozens of scans (*tif), each within 2-5 justified photos. In this case "justified" means: the photos are almost vertically & horizontally arranged.

Example of a scan:

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#############   #############
#############   #############
#############   #############
#### P1 #####   ##### P2 ####
#############   #############
#############   #############
#############   #############

######################
######################
######################
######## P3 ##########
######################
######################

########## ##############
########## ##############
### P4 ### ##############
########## ##### P5 #####
########## ##############
           ##############
           ##############
           ##############

Now I'm looking for a solution to extract each photo as automatically as possible. I've allready tried solutions like PSE8 "divide scanned imanges" and "magic extraction" (sorry, I don't know the exact English desctiption because I have a German version). However, the results are far away from everything that should assist me. So I decided to execute this work manually. I switched to Gimp because of PSE8 lack of customized shortcuts. But the next problem I recognized was that I had to correct each save name. Gimp (and PSE8 too) doesn't offer an option to adapt the save name if it allready exist. Only overwrite or abort.

Now I want to test XnView and, as I said; I'm looking for a feasbile solution. Any tips are welcome.

PS: A feasible solution for me would be e.g.: "select an area (photo) and with one shortcut -> save as new image in a predefined folder with a predefined save name + continuously number"

Regards
luckshmi