Scanning large amounts of Pictures; How?

[hdsalinas]

Hi,

I am contemplating on scanning years an years of old paper pictures. I want to start with my college years (96-00),

Is there a scanner that would let me just feed images like a conveyor belt and convert them to jpegs on my mac?

What is the best way to do it?

 

[Royale w/cheese]

This is something I am interested in also, hopefully there will be some good ideas on this thread.

 

[Markleshark]

Hmmmmm, thats not something I've ever heard of. I think your best bet would be a larger (A3 or something) flat bed scanner. If not, get a decent quality A4, lock yourself in and put the kettle on.

 

[r1ch4rd]

You're just going to have to do it the obvious way. We get a lot of clients at work who want to do this sort of thing with rooms full of documents. Some poor sap has to sit and do them all one at a time. There are companies that will do it for you, not sure about for your personal photos though.

 

[®îçhå®?]

Here in the UK anyway, there are services where you can takein your old photos, they scan them and put them on a CD for you, not sure if you could do that. Pay a high-school student to do it on the cheap??
Or, i do them 4 at a time. Fits nicely on my scanner

 

[ErikCLDR]

Some scanners can detect multiple pictures. I believe my cannon scanner which I haven't used in years has something called "multiscan" where it figures out that you have 3 pics in the scanner at one time. It doesn't always work that great though, you still need to do some manual cropping, but at least it automatically saves them as separate files.

 

[Royale w/cheese]

Some scanners can detect multiple pictures. I believe my cannon scanner which I haven't used in years has something called "multiscan" where it figures out that you have 3 pics in the scanner at one time. It doesn't always work that great though, you still need to do some manual cropping, but at least it automatically saves them as separate files.

I have a few scanners that do this, but they have always had very unacceptable results. Then I would just end up doing it the old fashioned way.

 

[iGav]

You really want a document scanner.

Though you can do it with some laser copiers too.

Alternatively... take on a recent design graduate and call it work experience.

 

[comictimes]

this is the scanner we had at my work over the summer... not sure of its compatibility with macs or its image quality (we only did documents so it didn't really matter), but it definitely scans faster than any other cheap(ish) home scanner i've seen

edit: haha forgot the link...
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/workgroup/s510.html?gclid=CLHm-M27kY4CFQllHgodjQP_Qg