Automatic scan photos?

Over Clocker · 14 Feb 2010 at 18:05

Hi guys,

I asked this in GH a while ago but no response

I'm looking to scan all my old paper photos onto the laptop. I've seen automatic feed document scanners, where you can put a load of sheets of paper in and it will scan and save each one. I was just wondering whether there are any that are good for doing this with photos?!?!

Cheers,

Mal

Cybermyk · 14 Feb 2010 at 18:38

HP Scanjet 5530 has a atomatic photo feeder. Not really seen any others and I don't know if it's any good.

Berserker · 14 Feb 2010 at 18:43

The only practical reason I can think of why an ADF scanner wouldn't work on ordinary photos (not polaroids due to thickness) is misfeeds. Other than that, I can't see why you couldn't stack photos into an automatic document feeder and scan them. Won't vouch for quality however.

However, you'll probably get better results using something like a Pandigital Photolink scanner. So it's not automatic feed, but it is (apparently) reasonably automatic, is designed for the specific job of photo scanning, and should be much quicker than a flatbed.

Windle · 14 Feb 2010 at 18:43

Our big industrial Brother printer/scanner/copy machine at work can do this with colour scans.