Gotcha. I was going to get my daughter busy on it since she has been
camping here. This scanner should do the job once I figure out how to
get it going (the software is not entirely intuitive) and then I guess I
will tag the pics after I run them through. It supposedly does duplex
scanning so it will get the backs of photos that have notes.
--FT
On 5/26/20 12:12 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Let me give you some advice:
I had this situation in two forms, over 8,000 35mm slides, and close to 3,000
photographs, about 6-8 years ago.
I bought a Nikon 35mm slide scanner and devoted nearly two whole weeks of time,
non-stop, probably 6-8 hours a day, to d the slides. It was a flipping
nightmare, made better (compared to scanning photos) by the fact that
everything was a consistent size and the software I used to import handled the
naming/exposure. It was still a nightmare.
When it was time to do the photos I sent them off to a lab that did it and paid
a lump sump for all of them to be scanned, put on a CD and made available for
download. It was worth every penny. I think it cost under $500, more like $350
if I recall correctly.
That being said, I was once again faced with a huge pile of photographs for
scanning from the mother in law about a year ago. I bought a purpose-built
scanner with very good software from Epson. Epson FastFoto FF-640. It wasn’t
cheap ($400) but it does a heck of a job and continues to provide excellent and
fast scanning capabilities for photos and documents.
Your time has value.
-D
On May 26, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I have boxes and boxes of old family photos. I bought a Brother ADS 2700W
scanner I am going to use to scan these photos. I need some sort of management
app where I can put in a descriptor, names/places, years, etc. to set up some
sort of searchable database of all these pics, then share the database/photos
somehow/where for the extended family to access.
The device has some sort of associated app called PaperPort I downloaded and
will be trying out, it looks kinda clunky on a quick look but maybe it will
suffice to get them into a scanned file. It doesn't seem to allow annotation
of images (only PDFs) with other descriptors.
Google, Amazon, Picasa, Photobucket and others are online storage apps that I
know a little about, Amazon just seems to be a place to store photos and vids,
but no details on how to set it up to do what I want to do. Google seems about
the same.
Anyone ever done something like this?
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--FT
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