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Picture scanning question
Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:01 pm
My wife and I have approximately 300 pictures taken from 1974 to about 1994 that have been stored in old style picture albums. We are coming up on our 50th wedding anniversary and I want to scan these pictures into a sotorage device or my computer and then load them into a electronic pictue frame. I have a Brother Laser Multi Function printer that I can use to do this. I am not looking forward to scanning them one at a time into my computer.
Is there any faster way of scanning these pictures? TIA
Is there any faster way of scanning these pictures? TIA
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Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:21 pm to Purplehaze
There are purpose-built photo scanners that would make it faster and easier, but I'm not sure the cost is worth it for 300 photos. That'll be your call. Just search "photo scanner" on Amazon or whatever. There are some that scan and "develop" negatives too if you have some of those.
Posted on 4/10/23 at 1:20 am to Purplehaze
Most scanners have a multi scan option and a tray where you put all your pics and it feeds and scans each pic. You still need to save each file individually but 300 scans would take about 10 minutes.
Posted on 4/10/23 at 5:55 am to Purplehaze
May be worth the cost to see what a photo processing would charge to do so (walmart, walgreens, etc). Since I believe they all offer a service like this.
Posted on 4/10/23 at 7:40 am to Purplehaze
First off. Congrats on 50 years of marriage. That represents a lot of dedication and hard work. 
If you have a flat bed scanner, don't scan the 1 at a time. Fill the scanner bed and scan as many as you can at one time. Then take the file the printer outputs and load it into your photo editing program. Select and copy each individual photo. Paste it into a new file and save. Since the time limiting factor in scanning photos is the time it actually scan them, by scanning 4-6 photos at a time, you are cutting down that time significantly.
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Is there any faster way of scanning these pictures?
If you have a flat bed scanner, don't scan the 1 at a time. Fill the scanner bed and scan as many as you can at one time. Then take the file the printer outputs and load it into your photo editing program. Select and copy each individual photo. Paste it into a new file and save. Since the time limiting factor in scanning photos is the time it actually scan them, by scanning 4-6 photos at a time, you are cutting down that time significantly.
This post was edited on 4/10/23 at 7:41 am
Posted on 4/10/23 at 9:38 am to Lonnie Utah
Lonnie, thank you I will try that. I must admit I have never used a photo editing program. I do not know if I have one on this Dell laptop that is maybe 5 years old. What program name should I look for? If I do not have onem what program should I acquire?
Posted on 4/10/23 at 10:04 am to Purplehaze
I did this last year as a 50 year anniversary gift for my in-laws. I scanned as many on one sheet as I could and then clipped them individually. I did around 175 pictures and it took the better part of two days to finish it.
If you want to take your time and do it that way, any photo app on your laptop will clip pictures for you. I'll just say that if you aren't very technologically savvy, you may want to look into a service locally that would do it for you. Most places I saw were around $0.50 per photo if they were in an album. So if you had 300 photos you could spend less than $200 and it would be done for you professionally. If I had to do it again, I'd go that route.
Memory Fortress
A quick google search led me to that link. Photos in an album at 600 dpi are $0.58 a piece. Have to send them off though
If you want to take your time and do it that way, any photo app on your laptop will clip pictures for you. I'll just say that if you aren't very technologically savvy, you may want to look into a service locally that would do it for you. Most places I saw were around $0.50 per photo if they were in an album. So if you had 300 photos you could spend less than $200 and it would be done for you professionally. If I had to do it again, I'd go that route.
Memory Fortress
A quick google search led me to that link. Photos in an album at 600 dpi are $0.58 a piece. Have to send them off though
Posted on 4/10/23 at 1:42 pm to Purplehaze
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I must admit I have never used a photo editing program
Really for this you could just use Microsoft paint. Anything that will let you crop/cop an image from a larger image.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 1:06 pm to Purplehaze
I did exactly this with a Brother 3770 last year. You can put up to 4? pictures on the glass at once, and it will prompt you to save multiple files on one scanning pass. I don't have access to that exact Brother anymore, but I'm 98% sure I did it through iPrint and Scan with Auto Crop. The gist of it is here although you can look it up by your particular model. I know I didn't buy any proprietary software to get it done.
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