I'll give you another perspective. Take all the boxes of photos, and throw them away.
Ask yourself honestly: how often do you look at this old stuff. Is it *really* meaningful to you or are you just saving it out of some vague guilty feeling that you should. When my mom died, I moved dozens of boxes of photos from her house to mine. Felt that it would be a shame to throw them away. The fact that SHE had never gotten around to doing anything with them should have been a clue. A few years later, they were all still untouched in my basement. I finally admitted to myself that I did not have enough interest in these to be worth keeping them, and threw them all away. It was a relief that I no longer had to see all those boxes and feel guilty about having done nothing with them. Allan Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > 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? >> >> -- >> --FT >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Allan Streib Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Digital Science Center | Intelligent Systems Engineering | FutureSystems _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
