Do you need to place photos one by one? Or is there a feeder for more? How long does 1scan takes?
1043268
Photos one by one, but slides and negatives have holders that hold four and five. Once you fit the media in the holder, put it in the machine - hit the button, done. Literally seconds, once you get the hang of fitting the media in the holders.
1043269
You have to place foto one by one.Slides in a frame of 4 slides and negatives in a frame of 6 negatives. Scan takes only fews seconds.
1043270
Photos are loaded and scanned individually.Although I LOVE my ION scanner, I would not recommend you purchase it to scan photos. Buy an inexpensive flatbed scanner, instead. This item is great for scanning negatives - and that's what I use it for. The quality of the scanned photos is not that great, however.
1043271
Photos are scanned one-by-one, you need to put them into a holder that is provided to keep them flat. Slide holder has room for 4 slides and the 35mm film holder holds the 6 negatives (like they come back from being developed. The long part is getting the negative into the holder and feeding it into the unit. Once you do that the scan part if fast -less than a second (scan, view the image, hit save, slide to the next negative, etc. I usually did a role or two and then transferred them to my PC.
1043272
one by one, but I do it at a table in front of the tv, it goes pretty quick.
2276182
The scanner is very portable, and this prevents it from having a sheet feeder. So yes, you do. Even at that, I found it much faster than using a printer/scanner and turning the sheets over, which makes a rather hard to use file.
2251379
I leave it on the 3 minutes setting . That way the files are kept small enough to manage and if you need to locate something it only takes 3 minute scan a file.
1460592
Angelica B. response is correct ....the internal memory of scanner will only do maybe 10 to 12 pix...
1392642
The scanner controls where the scanned image is place on the memory card. It will use folder PHOTO1 until it has scanned 9999 pictures or negatives. You do not have control over the folder destination. Even if you plug the scanner into your desktop or laptop you cannot choose the folder into which the scanned image will be placed. All of this must be done manually by you.
2012471
If you install the Epson Scan software and set it in "Professional Mode", you will be able to preview an entire screen of photos, select each one individually, then choose "All". Each photo will be saved individually. So you scan once, but save multiple photos at the same time. This scanner does not have a negative or slide scanning attachment. Prints only.
670622
As far as I know, that is a feature of the software you use on the computer. Personally, i do it a different way with photoshop's crop and straighten and automate this process. First i scan all the images putting as many as possible on the scanner. Then I automate photoshop to run the crop and straighten on a whole folder of scans. It quickly opens each scan, crops each one. Then saves each one into a different folder. Once it is done I can quickly look through all the photos. I find this faster then manually picking which ones to keep. It does take a little know how to set up the process but once you do it will do all the hard work for you.
1048170
It might be tough to feed them into this scanner. I had a hard time feeding some of my really old pics. You might want to seek out a professional for your negatives. Good luck.
1556913
Do all size sheets have to be the same. What sizes does it take. I want to scan 50 years of family photos. They are all different sizes and textures. Then I plan to burn them to disk. Does anyone know a relative quick way of doing this. I will have a new computer shortly (Vista). Right now the scanner from my cannon printer all in 1 takes a few minutes to scan each...this would take me the rest of my life. Plus I want to scan one photo at a time. Save and then I can burn to disk. HELP!! Thanks.
260774
I think it is worth it if you are going to do a lot of scanning where you want to try to organize it all. If you are just doing one-off scanning, I would say no.
2243203
it scanned photos great. I used it one time on vacation, the computer I put it on later crashed and when I tried to install on another computer when I tried to load it on another computer , it wouldn't let me. I called the company and they told me that I only had the one install. I was so mad.
1106934
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
1114353
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.
842788
Only one line at a time, but scanning one line only takes you 2 seconds, so I think 20 lines is not a problem for you.
687592
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.
518108
That was the easy part for me. The scan worked well, but the retrieval of it for filing is slow slow slow. Honestly, I have gone back to my Epson GT-S50 - its fast and I scan to my gmail drive so it puts it in the cloud. I do have the small NeatConnect scanner and I like that for travel, but the NeatConnect - I would save your money
1474700
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.