I'm primarily a browser here, trying to learn from all of you. Please excuse me if this is posted in the wrong section. I have a lot of old - dating from the 1940s and forward, with a couple that were taken prior to 1900. Most of them are b/w, and many are out of focus. I'm looking to buy a wireless, sheet-fed scanner to scan these for genealogy and family purposes. It's likely I will not print them, but I want to build a folder where they are easy to find for the younger generations in my family, who now are showing interest in them. Price is not a big issue, although I'd prefer to keep it under $500. I'd be very interested to hear your comments on the best scanner for these old photos. Thanks in advance.
Floyd
Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama
Check out ,on Amazon, the Epson Workforce ES-400ii scanner. I have an older model (GT-s50) that is 9 years old I've used to scan pictures, old documents,etc. for churches protecting their history. The double side scanning is great to capture names and comments on the back of old photos.
That newer model should meet your needs.
Floyd wrote:
Check out ,on Amazon, the Epson Workforce ES-400ii scanner. I have an older model (GT-s50) that is 9 years old I've used to scan pictures, old documents,etc. for churches protecting their history. The double side scanning is great to capture names and comments on the back of old photos.
That newer model should meet your needs.
Thanks so much. I've looked at that one and put it on my list of strong contenders.
Floyd
Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama
I've stacked 25-30 pages at a time and let the machine control the feeding process; important to me as it gave me time to check the previous stack for quality: something that never was a problem.
Good luck.
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Thank you. I will look into these.
lindadak wrote:
I'm primarily a browser here, trying to learn from all of you. Please excuse me if this is posted in the wrong section. I have a lot of old - dating from the 1940s and forward, with a couple that were taken prior to 1900. Most of them are b/w, and many are out of focus. I'm looking to buy a wireless, sheet-fed scanner to scan these for genealogy and family purposes. It's likely I will not print them, but I want to build a folder where they are easy to find for the younger generations in my family, who now are showing interest in them. Price is not a big issue, although I'd prefer to keep it under $500. I'd be very interested to hear your comments on the best scanner for these old photos. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, Linda. Check this out. I don't know your level of interest or what gear you have, but some of this may be interesting or helpful:
I have a Fujitsu iX1500 that does a surprisingly good job on photos and handles paper well. Saves in jpg or PDF format and scans both sides at once - helpful if descriptions are written on the back. Thee current model is the iX1600. I purchased for copying paperwork for an estate and just tried photos as a test. It turned out much better than I had guessed and is very speedy. I’m not sure I’d use any autofeeder scanner for fragile photos, however.
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