For scanning, have you tried an MFC printer/scanner with a scan bed? I’ve only used it on documents, but it might work on photos as well. Theoretically, you could just place a stack on the feeder and scan them all at once.
Yes, my scanner works fine for the few pictures I’ve done so far. The only problem is that there are tons more to do. Plus some of them have been in photo albums for decades and I’m afraid to peel the plastic page cover off because it could peel a layer off the photo - I’ve already had it happen. And my scanner is a cheap all-in-one model designed for documents, so when it feeds anything in, they curve around a pretty narrow roller, which could damage some older photos.
I’ll probably send the albums off to a pro, since they have large format scanners. They can just scan a whole page at once and crop out the photos individually, that way they don’t have to worry about damaging anything.
I’m not too worried about the money, the toughest part is figuring out how to organize and catalog all these pictures of mostly people I don’t know. AI would be a huge help with organizing the images, but I can see a lot of people having a problem with it.
That’s a cool project. :)
For scanning, have you tried an MFC printer/scanner with a scan bed? I’ve only used it on documents, but it might work on photos as well. Theoretically, you could just place a stack on the feeder and scan them all at once.
Yes, my scanner works fine for the few pictures I’ve done so far. The only problem is that there are tons more to do. Plus some of them have been in photo albums for decades and I’m afraid to peel the plastic page cover off because it could peel a layer off the photo - I’ve already had it happen. And my scanner is a cheap all-in-one model designed for documents, so when it feeds anything in, they curve around a pretty narrow roller, which could damage some older photos.
I’ll probably send the albums off to a pro, since they have large format scanners. They can just scan a whole page at once and crop out the photos individually, that way they don’t have to worry about damaging anything.
I’m not too worried about the money, the toughest part is figuring out how to organize and catalog all these pictures of mostly people I don’t know. AI would be a huge help with organizing the images, but I can see a lot of people having a problem with it.