I'm not sure if this is the right subforum. I wasn't sure if I should post here or in the digital camera forum since this is about photos but I will try here first and if I don't get a response...
I have 1,000s of old family photos. I don't want to spend tons of cash sending them to someone else to get scanned. Nor do I want to spend tons of time scanning them myself on a flatbed scanner.
So I'm looking for a compromise in between...
I'm looking for the following:
1. A scanner with a feeder so I can just stick a photo in and it gets scanned. I do have old photos that are probably best scanned on a flatbed for reasons of delicateness and preservation, but I just have too many to worry about that too much. I definitely need a feeder that only goes one way, and not a feeder that makes a u-turn.
2. Reasonably fast scanning. Again I have possibly 10s of thousands of photos.
3. Reasonably good quality scanning. I understand that likely nothing will beat a flatbed, but I don't necessarily need 4k scans of these photos either. On the other hand, even with a scanner that is reasonably fast and allows me to feed the photos one at a time, I am sure that this will still be a large investment in time. I don't want to find that the image quality is lacking and I have to do the whole project over again anyway later down the road.
4. Software that will work with the scanner to automatically rotate and automatically crop these photos. They are of varying sizes (since some are much older, they are not all standard 3x5s). Again, if I have to go through each photo one by one and worrying about them being 1 or 2 degrees off the horizontal, or cropping them all one by one, this will take forever.
5. All of this reasonably priced. Hopefully under $1000.
Any one know of any equipment that would do this?
P.S. For many of these photos I also possess the original negatives. But again it is a matter of volume, time, and money. Are there are machines that would allow me to scan negatives at higher speeds while not sacrificing too much quality?
I have 1,000s of old family photos. I don't want to spend tons of cash sending them to someone else to get scanned. Nor do I want to spend tons of time scanning them myself on a flatbed scanner.
So I'm looking for a compromise in between...
I'm looking for the following:
1. A scanner with a feeder so I can just stick a photo in and it gets scanned. I do have old photos that are probably best scanned on a flatbed for reasons of delicateness and preservation, but I just have too many to worry about that too much. I definitely need a feeder that only goes one way, and not a feeder that makes a u-turn.
2. Reasonably fast scanning. Again I have possibly 10s of thousands of photos.
3. Reasonably good quality scanning. I understand that likely nothing will beat a flatbed, but I don't necessarily need 4k scans of these photos either. On the other hand, even with a scanner that is reasonably fast and allows me to feed the photos one at a time, I am sure that this will still be a large investment in time. I don't want to find that the image quality is lacking and I have to do the whole project over again anyway later down the road.
4. Software that will work with the scanner to automatically rotate and automatically crop these photos. They are of varying sizes (since some are much older, they are not all standard 3x5s). Again, if I have to go through each photo one by one and worrying about them being 1 or 2 degrees off the horizontal, or cropping them all one by one, this will take forever.
5. All of this reasonably priced. Hopefully under $1000.
Any one know of any equipment that would do this?
P.S. For many of these photos I also possess the original negatives. But again it is a matter of volume, time, and money. Are there are machines that would allow me to scan negatives at higher speeds while not sacrificing too much quality?
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