... I describe the design of a simple IRAF -based reduction and analysis pipeline, developed for the BFOSC instrument on the 1.52m Cassini Telescope at Loiano, run by the Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna. ... However, the current and future development of the pipeline is also being driven by our research programmes involving BFOSC data. ... Existing keywords OBJECT & IMAGETYP determine whether each frame is a bias, dark frame, flatfield, HeAr lamp spectrum, or scientific target. ...