picture scanning

[kasparov]

I have a website which has my family photos on it. I also have hundreds, maybe thousands, of physical photos which have been taken since childhood. I want to digitize these pictures so that I can put them up on my website.

what's the best way to do that? should I do it myself or is there a cheap digitizing place? Hopefully, there's a place with a gigantic uber-efficient machine which can do this for me supercheap.....

 

[Safeway]

Do it yourself, go buy a scanner. Paying someone to do that many would be insane.

 

[sixone]

DIY is the cheapest way - and don't try to do them all, pick and choose, for heaven's sake.

 

[yllus]

HP used to have a scanner in which you could load 50 4x6's at a time into it and it'd go through each automatically. See if they still sell it.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

DIY takes a very, very very long time.... 300 pictures took me about a week and thats without finally editing them.

 

[So]

PM Aquaman

 

[kasparov]

haven't you'all done something similar? scan in a whole bunch of old photos?

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: kasparov
haven't you'all done something similar? scan in a whole bunch of old photos?

I think Aquaman has been scanning magazines for the past 3 years or so.

 

[RossMAN]

DIY is cheapest unless you don't mind paying per picture to be scanned.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: kasparov
haven't you'all done something similar? scan in a whole bunch of old photos?

yes, i have and its very time consuming.
Unless you get one of those automatic picture scanners i seen in stores... which i don't know if they work well.

 

[Safeway]

Yea, very time consuming. I have scanned about 400 8.5x11 sheets of paper to PDF and sell to students as a study packet. They were my notes. I made alot off of it though!

 

[Night201]

What format are they in? Are they all prints or do you have some negatives and/or slides?

 

[olds]

My brother bought a feeder for his scanner. I think it's HP.

 

[JoeKing]

I'll do it for free... but I get to keep the actual pictures :evil:

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: kasparov
haven't you'all done something similar? scan in a whole bunch of old photos?

yes, i have and its very time consuming.
Unless you get one of those automatic picture scanners i seen in stores... which i don't know if they work well.

Buy from somewhere without a return charge.

 

[jamesbond007]

What scanner would be best for this? I'm also compiling a lot of old family pictures to digitize them as well. I have a HP PSC2175 unit that seems to work well for my needs, but perhaps I should look at something nicer? Obviously I'm not sending them in to some magazine so I don't think the most expensive one would be the best choice. I heard Epson makes some wicked scanners.

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: So
PM Aquaman

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