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I went and bought Ransen Scan. It'll split my scanner bed full of cards into 9 image files and also attempt to straighten them as well. It does a reasonably good job, but I'll still do some cropping in PhotoScape. 6/9 cards end up being almost perfectly straight if I place them reasonably straight on the scanner bed. 

The money I spent on the software has saved me in time, as splitting the photos was one of my least favourite tasks because I subconsciously tend to try and crop the images as I split them.

Also the developer is quick with support. I had a download issue and he helped me out within a day

That looks promising. Since my laptop died last year I've been using a crappy old laptop someone gave me. I just try to keep them straight and crop with the windows editor. I just copy the scan for each card. You can do it from one, but I always seem to overwrite it before I finish cropping out each card and saving as it's own file. Much easier to just copy it 5 times and crop one card out of each. There always seems to be one or two that want to move on you though. I tend to just do 2 or 3 at a time for that reason. I can hold them down with a piece of 8x10 picture glass so they don't move and lay nice and flat.

I've got a meet up with another Ozzie guy that bought a huge collection. Planning on scanning a bunch of stuff while I'm there. Figured I could get through the most stuff by filling the flat bed and scanning and doing the editing and uploading later. I should be able to fill in a ton of scans for the newer numbered stuff. Since it will be a speed operation to try to get through as many as possible, I'm sure I will have a bunch to straighten up. 

GIMP is as pretty good photo editor I generally use. Basically an open-source Photoshop. You can use a lot of the Photoshop plugins and filters with GIMP. Pretty much do anything you want with it.  I havent bothered installing on my current craptop, but I have used it a lot in the past.

I feel the need to revive this, as I have found a newly released set (21-22 O-Pee-Chee Playing Cards) where a member has uploaded a back image for all 52 cards, while only submitting a single image for a front.

https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/298619/2021-22-O-Pee-Chee---Playing-Cards

I'm not questioning if the back images are incorrect, because I see nothing on the one that could be different on the others. But it just seems to me this is point farming for whatever purpose, and quite frankly it kinda pisses me off that were I to find some of these, I'd like to be able to do both sides. Just the OCD part of me. What's there to stop me from uploading the single blank back image I have to every single black back set that exists?

I have points, I get them for what I do here, but I really don't care personally for them. Honestly, I'm not even aware of their use.

Acdsee is a very easy and pretty powerful photo editing software that I bought.  Go to there site and ask for informationa nd they send a special offer.  I paid about $28 a couple years ago.  It will auto thumbnail multiple cards and rotate them pretty well.  It then lets you manually rotoate in 1 degree increments and then I crop.  Color levels also very easy to enhance as many prizm cards don't always scan well.  Regular cardboard has been phenomenal.  

Feel free to ask any questions.

Regards, Greg