For many years we have had photos accumulating in boxes and a few albums. But mostly in boxes. I think we have 5 or 6 boxes of them now.
Always, the goal was that “someday” we would scan them into a digital form and then organize them.
We have finally started that project.
First was to determine the scanner to use. We have an Epson scanner that is a very good professional scanner but it has a large hinged top that must be lifted to put the next item to scan. It has high resolution scans but it horribly time consuming and we have found it to not be very productive for large scanning jobs.
Looking at Amazon we found several candidates that looked good, but only 1 stood out as a solution for the project. In addition to scanning a large number of pictures, we also have a large number of business cards we wanted to scan and then discard.
We settled on the Fujitsu SnapScan iX1600. It can scan small to large sizes (business cards to full 8 1/2 x 11 sheets). It is fast. It can do duplex scanning so one time through the handler and we have both sides of the item. This is critical because many of the pics have notes on the back. It also has a very small footprint on the desk so we have more room for the project work.
We are extremely happy with it. Included in the package is some image management software that allows multiple scan profiles to be defined and then easily selected. Then those images can be edited with the same software.
This device is perfect for the need and now I am not scanning daily. We are very pleased with the results so far
More on this soon…
Blessings to all!
Bill