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bulk scanning?
bulk scanning?
I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
take forever.
I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
made to handle documents.
Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
but not a must.
Thanks all,
rjv
I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
take forever.
I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
made to handle documents.
Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
but not a must.
Thanks all,
rjv
Re: bulk scanning?
rjvalenta@yahoo,com wrote:
> I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
> and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
> night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
> every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
> can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
>
> So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
> thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
> take forever.
>
> I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
> this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
> don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
>
> So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
> that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
> bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
> made to handle documents.
>
> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
> save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
> and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
> constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
> but not a must.
AFAIK these machines exist but are mainly used
by archives and libraries.
I do not know of one that is even close
to affordable by a private individual
BugBear
rjvalenta@yahoo,com wrote:
> I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
> and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
> night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
> every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
> can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
>
> So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
> thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
> take forever.
>
> I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
> this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
> don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
>
> So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
> that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
> bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
> made to handle documents.
>
> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
> save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
> and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
> constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
> but not a must.
AFAIK these machines exist but are mainly used
by archives and libraries.
I do not know of one that is even close
to affordable by a private individual
BugBear
Re: bulk scanning?
On Feb 22, 10:48 am, bugbear <bugbear@trim papermule.co.uk trim>
wrote:
> rjvale...@yahoo,com wrote:
> > I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
> > and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
> > night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
> > every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
> > can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
>
> > So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
> > thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
> > take forever.
>
> > I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
> > this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
> > don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
>
> > So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
> > that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
> > bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
> > made to handle documents.
>
> > Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> > load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
> > save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
> > and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
> > constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
> > but not a must.
>
> AFAIK these machines exist but are mainly used
> by archives and libraries.
>
> I do not know of one that is even close
> to affordable by a private individual
>
> BugBear
Oddly enough - after I posted this... I thought to myself 'what about
the scanner i got for our database girl to use for OCR?' Since it had
an ADF i thought I'd try it...
The HP Scanjet 7650 - with the software and hooked up to my Windows
machine... not perfect (it crops the 4" side but the 6" side is full
width of the scan bed). But so far I've loaded it with 50 4x6 prints
as a test and it screamed right through them, saving them into a
directory with a name i gave them and a number after each in any
format I wanted. It appears to be using an un-adjustable 200dpi...
but I'm not complaining, I can import them all, and use a batch in
photoshop to crop them if I wish, it will trim days off this project.
So, i thought i should pass this info along!
rjv
On Feb 22, 10:48 am, bugbear <bugbear@trim papermule.co.uk trim>
wrote:
> rjvale...@yahoo,com wrote:
> > I'm a 35 year old man and I've been in a lot of pictures over time,
> > and luckily in the last 5 years they've all been digital... but last
> > night I realized that I have boxes and boxes and books of photos of
> > every type... polaroid, 4x6, 3x5, and some 3.5x3.5 (i think) that I
> > can't move to my digital photo-archive without scanning them.
>
> > So, I'd like to get them all scanned, but there are literally
> > thousands of them, and hand loading them all on to a flatbed would
> > take forever.
>
> > I've searched around online, and found a few others who asked about
> > this but everyone's response is to use a negative scanner - but I
> > don't have the negatives for 98% of these!
>
> > So, does anyone know of a reliable bulk photo scanner? I heard rumor
> > that the HP 55XX series could do bulk photo scanning, but that it got
> > bad reviews and had feeding issues, and it seems like it was really
> > made to handle documents.
>
> > Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> > load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
> > save them into a folder on my machine using some kind of auto-naming,
> > and do it without having to have me sit there and baby-sit it
> > constantly. If it was supported by both Mac & PC it would be nice,
> > but not a must.
>
> AFAIK these machines exist but are mainly used
> by archives and libraries.
>
> I do not know of one that is even close
> to affordable by a private individual
>
> BugBear
Oddly enough - after I posted this... I thought to myself 'what about
the scanner i got for our database girl to use for OCR?' Since it had
an ADF i thought I'd try it...
The HP Scanjet 7650 - with the software and hooked up to my Windows
machine... not perfect (it crops the 4" side but the 6" side is full
width of the scan bed). But so far I've loaded it with 50 4x6 prints
as a test and it screamed right through them, saving them into a
directory with a name i gave them and a number after each in any
format I wanted. It appears to be using an un-adjustable 200dpi...
but I'm not complaining, I can import them all, and use a batch in
photoshop to crop them if I wish, it will trim days off this project.
So, i thought i should pass this info along!
rjv
Re: bulk scanning?
rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
Think of all the times you've had to unjam an office photocopier and
then imagine if you were trying to feed photographic prints (much
thicker paper, differing sizes, tendency to stick together, etc.) into
it. It's near hopeless to expect a thing like that to work reliably.
What you want is a scanner that's just faster than today's consumer
scanners. Then you plop down some prints on it (let's say 4-8 prints
and a nice big scanning area), press a button and get a scan instantly
(like within 1 second, comparable to an office photocopier), put in
the next bunch of prints, etc. You could easily scan a few thousand
prints an hour that way and get through your collection pretty fast.
You could get sort of reasonable results with a DSLR, macro lens, copy
stand, and copy lights, shooting one print at a time, and that can go
pretty fast too. I've done stuff like this. It's nice to be able to
use both hands to shuffle the originals around, without having to
reach up to press buttons on the camera. Just keep the tiny infrared
remote in your hand and click it for each shot.
rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
Think of all the times you've had to unjam an office photocopier and
then imagine if you were trying to feed photographic prints (much
thicker paper, differing sizes, tendency to stick together, etc.) into
it. It's near hopeless to expect a thing like that to work reliably.
What you want is a scanner that's just faster than today's consumer
scanners. Then you plop down some prints on it (let's say 4-8 prints
and a nice big scanning area), press a button and get a scan instantly
(like within 1 second, comparable to an office photocopier), put in
the next bunch of prints, etc. You could easily scan a few thousand
prints an hour that way and get through your collection pretty fast.
You could get sort of reasonable results with a DSLR, macro lens, copy
stand, and copy lights, shooting one print at a time, and that can go
pretty fast too. I've done stuff like this. It's nice to be able to
use both hands to shuffle the originals around, without having to
reach up to press buttons on the camera. Just keep the tiny infrared
remote in your hand and click it for each shot.
Re: bulk scanning?
In message <7x4ppeozp7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha,com >, Paul Rubin
<http@?.cx.invalid> writes
>rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
>> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
>> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
>
>I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
HP used to sell a small scanner, the PhotoSmart suitable for scanning
negs, slides and prints up to 5x7. The prints and negs were fed into a
slot at the front and dragged through by a roller, a bit like a thermal
laminators. It made feeding a series of prints into the scanner quite
easy. The second-generation S20 model was USB1.0 (not SCSI as in the
original). The maximum resolution for prints was 300dpi.
You might find one on the second-hand market.
--
To reply, my gmail address is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
In message <7x4ppeozp7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha,com >, Paul Rubin
<http@?.cx.invalid> writes
>rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
>> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
>> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
>
>I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
HP used to sell a small scanner, the PhotoSmart suitable for scanning
negs, slides and prints up to 5x7. The prints and negs were fed into a
slot at the front and dragged through by a roller, a bit like a thermal
laminators. It made feeding a series of prints into the scanner quite
easy. The second-generation S20 model was USB1.0 (not SCSI as in the
original). The maximum resolution for prints was 300dpi.
You might find one on the second-hand market.
--
To reply, my gmail address is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
Re: bulk scanning?
"Robert Sneddon" <fred@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:r7aXsCdhZ23FFwQE@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> In message <7x4ppeozp7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha,com >, Paul Rubin
> <http@?.cx.invalid> writes
>>rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
>>> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
>>> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
>>
>>I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
>
> HP used to sell a small scanner, the PhotoSmart suitable for scanning
> negs, slides and prints up to 5x7. The prints and negs were fed into a
> slot at the front and dragged through by a roller, a bit like a thermal
> laminators. It made feeding a series of prints into the scanner quite
> easy. The second-generation S20 model was USB1.0 (not SCSI as in the
> original). The maximum resolution for prints was 300dpi.
>
> You might find one on the second-hand market.
> --
> To reply, my gmail address is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
Kodak markets a scanner to the "one-hour-photo" trade that incorporates a
feeder system. The labs that I've heard that have bought them and are
effectively marketing the service, are generally well satisfied with them.
This is not a scanner for the home user, this is meant to feed it's data
output to a high-speed printer or disc burner.
Check around for local photofinishers.
"Robert Sneddon" <fred@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:r7aXsCdhZ23FFwQE@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> In message <7x4ppeozp7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha,com >, Paul Rubin
> <http@?.cx.invalid> writes
>>rjvalenta@yahoo,com writes:
>>> Love to hear any input - I'm hoping to find a USB scanner that I can
>>> load a stack of photos in to, which will scan them all one by one,
>>
>>I don't think there is one and I don't think there will ever be one.
>
> HP used to sell a small scanner, the PhotoSmart suitable for scanning
> negs, slides and prints up to 5x7. The prints and negs were fed into a
> slot at the front and dragged through by a roller, a bit like a thermal
> laminators. It made feeding a series of prints into the scanner quite
> easy. The second-generation S20 model was USB1.0 (not SCSI as in the
> original). The maximum resolution for prints was 300dpi.
>
> You might find one on the second-hand market.
> --
> To reply, my gmail address is nojay1 Robert Sneddon
Kodak markets a scanner to the "one-hour-photo" trade that incorporates a
feeder system. The labs that I've heard that have bought them and are
effectively marketing the service, are generally well satisfied with them.
This is not a scanner for the home user, this is meant to feed it's data
output to a high-speed printer or disc burner.
Check around for local photofinishers.
