Would the Doxie One be good for scanning lots of photos? Does it automatically crop the scans? Is there a big difference in speed at 150 DPI? Thanks!
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I've used it for photo's and haven't had any problems. I scan everything in at 300 dpi, and it's pretty speedy. I have not tried doing 150 dpi though. It does auto crop and fix any skewing or rotation that may have happened too.
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Not really and you don't want photos at 150 dpi. For lots of photos you'll want something like a scan snap. This is primarily a document scanner.
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Just for kicks and grins I scanned negatives and slides at the maximum resolution and I estimate the process took about 10-15 per. I also found out that scanning at the highest resolution created files so large (some as big as 600MB) that even though I have a fairly high performance PC, (Core i7, 12GB of RAM), the files were so big I couldn't open them. I dropped down to around 2400-4800 DPI and found the files created about 1.2MB or so. I also scanned files on my MBP with 4GB of RAM and it also created files too large to open and in a few cases it even crashed. I decided the 4800 DPI range was more than sufficient for scanning for my purposes which is to burn all these treasured slides and negatives to disk and give them to family so they can enjoy them too. If you are a professional photographer or designer and you need the max resolution you will need a box with the highest performing hardware you can buy and that will be commensurate with the price. Bottom line: Test various resolutions and see what works for your purposes. I read MANY of the reviews of this scanner before I bought it and decided it would work perform the job I needed it to do and it has performed admirably.
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I just received my Canoscan 8800F a few days ago....I'm impressed with the medium format aspect of scanner. The only problem is the huge file it creates when you try to get the photo as close of the film medium format quality as possible (25mb file)
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The Doxie can be set for 300 dpi or 600 dpi. It's bed is 4" x 6", so you can put most snapshots on the bed and put down the cover to hold in place. The door is also removable so you can hold it up to a picture or document hanging on the wall for instance. For pictures bigger than 4x6, there is a feature where you can stitch multiple scans together, but I have not used it. My opinion is that if you have things bigger than snapshots...scan them on a conventional scanner. The cool thing about the Doxie is the portability and convenience. You can take that box of pictures that's sitting in the closet and get them in the computer in quick order. The Doxie can be set for 300 dpi or 600 dpi. It's bed is 4" x 6", so you can put most snapshots on the bed and put down the cover to hold in place. The door is also removable so you can hold it up to a picture or document hanging on the wall for instance. For pictures bigger than 4x6, there is a feature where you can stitch multiple scans together, but I have not used it. My opinion is that if you have things bigger than snapshots...scan them on a conventional scanner. The cool thing about the Doxie is the portability and convenience. You can take that box of pictures that's... » Read More The Doxie can be set for 300 dpi or 600 dpi. It's bed is 4" x 6", so you can put most snapshots on the bed and put down the cover to hold in place. The door is also removable so you can hold it up to a picture or document hanging on the wall for instance. For pictures bigger than 4x6, there is a feature where you can stitch multiple scans together, but I have not used it. My opinion is that if you have things bigger than snapshots...scan them on a conventional scanner. The cool thing about the Doxie is the portability and convenience. You can take that box of pictures that's sitting in the closet and get them in the computer in quick order. « Show Less
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Well, as of June 2008, there is a post in the CanoScan 8600 vs. 8800 discussion by CM-Monkey (I believe is his moniker) where he reports buying the V500 and the 8800 and his side by side comparison ends with Epson V500 the winner! So, where do we go now with this discussion? I'd rather not have to buy both scanners to do a side by side comparison myself.
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you would be better off using a regular photo scanner. the epson takes 20 min to do a photo scan. it is great for negs. and slides.
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I have copied many old photos with my Doxie. I cut the holes side out of a clear page protector to make a cover to hold fragile or torn photos when scanning them. Then I crop out the non-photo parts before saving. That little trick makes it possible to scan very old delicate photos.
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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've scanned several hundred photos with the S300M and find them fine for viewing on the computer. You can put 10 photos in the Auto Doc Feeder and they go through without a hitch. Not as high quality scans as you would get with a flatbed scanner but the images look fine.
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It has worked very well for me! It can scan at a quality of 600dpi for color or gray & 1200dpi for black and white. It depends on how sharp you need the pictures to be. Hope this helps
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Doxie One reads up to 12" per scan. It sounds like the Doxie Go would fit your needs a bit better. It scans up to 15" per scan. Regina @ Doxie Customer Care help@getdoxie.com
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I have not used a Doxie One but I do have a Doxie Go.The difference that I purchased the Doxie Go was for that it is completely portable. I can insert an SD card or flash drive and it scans to it and I can then open it on any computer.. you do not need a computer to scan.. This feature makes it very handy to take with you and scan then put it on your computer or leave it on the flash or SD.. I can tuck it into my purse.. The scans are very clear..
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I'm a graphic designer, and I also have an Epson v500. I don't recommend the ScanSnap for photos or illustrations. Stick with the Epson v500 for that. But if you have a pencil sketch that you need to place in Adobe Illustrator as a guide, that's just fine.
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Robert, I have scanned pictures from magazines but not photographs. These pics from the magazines are pixalated slightly but adequate. Poor quality pic to start with when scanning a magaizine pic. I use the scanner constantly and am more than happy with it since I'm always on the road. It travels nice and scans without any issues. If you're looking for top of the line scanned pics I think you'll be slightly disappointed. More than adequate for my needs though. Your question sparked my interest. I changed my settings to JPG @ 600dpi, just adequate not superb!
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You can scan about 20 pictures in a minute. It goes very quickly. Sometime if you don't feed it into the scanner straight, you have to adjust the photo or crop it, but I am accustomed to doing that and it does not take long. I have owned 3 total now. After doing several thousand photos on one, the roller gets rough in spots and leaves a mark on your photo.....but it does great for a long time. I also like being able to scan documents when needed. I have tried other brands and not been happy with them. Good luck with your decision.
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300 dpi is plenty good enough for scanning. The files are very readable, even those pesky receipts you get from the stores. I only used 150 dpi on my old scanner to scan my docs for archiving, so 300 is more than adequate for me. If you were doing PHOTOS, then I'd go for the 600 DPI.
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I was never able to use the scanner, I wasn't able to get past set-up. I returned it and purchased a pandigital scanner, it has 2 rollers to avoid blurring, it can be used as a wand scanner & it snaps into a small base to allow pictures to be fed through & allows up to a 1200 dpi. This has a rechargeable ni-cad battery & I'm very pleased with it.