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I'm scanning old family photos, and I have three questions about the process, from a technical standpoint. And oh-by-the-way, I am working on a Mac. Though I could move much of the process to a PC if you gave me a ghost of a reason I needed to, as the scanner is wireless ( Read more... )
I'm scanning old family photos, and I have three questions about the process, from a technical standpoint. And oh-by-the-way, I am working on a Mac. Though I could move much of the process to a PC if you gave me a ghost of a reason I needed to, as the scanner is wireless ( Read more... )
However, I do have a suggestion that might smooth your workflow a bit: I have a dedicated photo scanner that records to an SD card (or USB flash drive, I think; I haven’t tried that). So you don't need to hook it up to a computer; you just sit and feed photos into it (one at a time, so they can be oriented differently if you like) and you end up with a memory card with each photo in its own file (mine does fairly high-quality JPEG). If you’re doing a lot of photos, the time saved fiddling with the scanner lid, orienting the photos on the glass, and so on, plus the ability to scan things at your coffeetable or kitchen table away from a computer, might be a sufficient time savings to be worth the purchase. The one I have is a Pandigital PhotoLink One-Touch Scanner; I think the one I have is the SCN02 model. It only does up to 4"x6", but there are other similar gadgets if you want to scan 8½"x11". Probably wouldn’t be good for newspaper clippings or torn/warped/wrinkled originals.
The rest of my thoughts about how I would do this are unfortunately about automating from the Unix/Linux command line, so not useful.
Good luck, and I look forward to seeing some of the pictures!
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