resize, crop, and increase contrast many images

I need to take many images and reduce there size , crop them and then up the contrast way way up
images will be jpg's

We have an LED sign, and it will show jpgs and bmps, but they need to be the correct resolution and they need to have very distinct dark and light areas for the picture to look halfway decent. (the shading in the sign is really bad)

I can easily use the gimp to make an image correctly, but I don;t want to have to go through and do that for all these images..

I don't really care what I have to do to get the images done, just as long as I am not loading them, reszing, croping, and the uping contrast.. over and over and over way too boring

I asked on codeguru, cause I might be able to do it in C++ or something, but I thought I'd ask here because there might be a way that wouldn't require me to work with graphics manipulation API. anyone have any ideas

thanx in advanced,
Byan

If they all require different crops you will have to individualy edit regardless.

Best image batch processor (not requiring scripts) I know of is ThumbPlus (payware). In freeware, IrfanView's Batch Conversion/Rename & Set Advanced Options may do what you want.

Starman*

I am just gonna wing the crops and say I want a center crop
I'll look into infranView tommorow at work