I have many photo albums I would like to scan. Has anyone used this scanner to scan thousands of 4x6 photos? I have all of my albums by years.
1521754
I have only scanned less than a hundred and it has done a good job. It is a slow process so good luck scanning thousands of pictures.
1521755
Being a flatbed, that's going to take a lot of time; open the cover, line up the photo, close the cover, scan, crop, save. There are some scanners which have "feeders" that will handle this for you, but you need to keep an eye on them or your photos might get caught and damaged.
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While you could scan that many photos with this, it would take forever, since it's just a flatbed scanner. I would recommend a scanner with a feed tray for a task like that. I've scanned photos with it, and while the quality is good, it is NOT fast.
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I used this scanner for all my family photos and scanned them at 600 dpi. No complaints
1450720
yes, it does. you can scan multiple photos simultaneously and it will create a file for each photo.
399034
I'm going to say "yes". I scanned small old polaroids, 4x6 photos and up to 8x10. Once I transferred the photos to my PC they retained their size. However, if I choose to print one I can resize the photo to what I want. Hope this helps.
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I am not sure if I understand your question but, if I scan a 4x6 photo it saves as a 4x6.. Not a 4x6 on an 8.5x 11 page.. I hope that answers your question ( hope that makes sense)
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I purchased an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. It scans slides, pictures and negatives. The scanner takes 4 slides at a time. Worked great. I had about 1500 slides from the 60s. The Kaiser Mini let me sort thru them quickly. Was a great winter project.
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thanks for the input .....I had gone ahead and ordered the Scan-Snap but had decided to return it before it even arrived. Your response just made me know that I made the right decision. My plan now is to sort through all those photos and send the best of the lot to a company such as Best Photo Scanning and let them preserve them on discs for me.
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Yes. I do it all the time. Just scanned in an 8 page document last night. That has more to do with software than the hardware and the software that comes with the scanner works well.
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It scans photographs pretty well. I don't think it's quite as good as my Epson v500, but it's "good enough" unless you're doing archival work and want the absolute best result you can get. The software does little to no post-processing, and your only choice of output for photographs is JPG (which is always a "lossy" format, as opposed to TIF or other "lossless" format). I don't know if it's the particular JPG compression or the scanner itself, but there is a [very] slight "tiling" effect to the scanned photographs. I suppose overall, I would give it a 7.5/10 for photos. Additionally, since it is a sheetfed scanner, if there is any dust on the scanner "lens", you will end up with a line, as opposed to the V500, so you need to keep that clean. On the plus side, you can scan multiple photos (of approximately the same size) automatically from the document feeder tray, and you can scan the back of the photos at the same time to keep context (many people write notes on the back of photos, which takes twice as much time to scan if you are using a photo scanner). I will upload an example of this scanner vs my V500 in the "customer images" and you can judge for yourself. (edit: never mind...Amazon won't allow me to add customer images for this product) The image is at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pg9fxsfvvdmutlj/S1300i_vs_V500_comparison.png
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It did not work good on any photos. I found that the ScanSnap 300 by Fujitsu works excellent on all... plus it is good for documents.
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I work in a law firm and have had to scan photographs. Will it scan? Yes. It is a proper scanner for archiving photographs? No. If you need it for the occasional photo, it will suffice. If you are looking to archive a lot of photographs, go with a flatbed scanner made specifically for photographs. Will is scan business cards? Yes.
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I would use it for that. The machine is super fast, and it's pretty impressive how accurate it is in sizing and framing whatever it is you're scanning. I haven't used it for scanning pictures, but I wouldn't hesitate to start.
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I have scanned several photos and they come out very well. I think the max resolution is 600DPI which is probably about as good as the quality of the photograph itself. The larger the photo the clearer the scan will be. I found the saving the pictures as a .pdf seem to give you a little better quality than a .jpg and also works well if you are using a MAC.
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Yes. It does a good KOB scanning documents for reprint or to email. I'm not sure about photos as I haven't ever tried to scan and reprint those.
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Yes I would think so. Keep in mind the size of area scanned is smaller then 8 1/2 x 11 - looks like smaller then 6 x 4. I really like it because of its compact size. I did scan a larger picture which is done in sections and has software that puts the images together. It was amazing the job it did.
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That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm copying older photos so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Maybe newer ones won't be as sharp, don't know. That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm... » Read More That's what I've used it for. I think it does a great job with them. I've compared them to the photos I got scanned from photo bin and they were about the same but without all the hassle of mailing them off and in the end is much better cost wise. Its hard to get them all to be perfectly straight when fed through if you do it in a hurry but theres a tool in their software that before you save them into your computer, you can crop them a little to make them straight. I'm actually not going to use my remaining groupons for photo bin and use the doxie cause its just as good. One caveat, I'm copying older photos so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Maybe newer ones won't be as sharp, don't know. « Show Less
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I have scanned a few photos with this scanner, although I usually use an Epson v600. The quality was good. I did have a couple of older photos get damaged by the feed wheel on the ScanSnap.
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If you could find some way to stick them to an 8" X 11" sheet of paper, either with scotch tape other other means, you should be able to scan them. You could put several on a sheet of paper and scan them all at one time. I have never tried to scan a 4 X 6 but I can see it would be a problem because the photo would move unless you hold it in place until the scanner starts over the photo.