![]() ![]() The hardest part of the whole task was identifying what the photos were, then typing in the captions. Exiftool embeds comments and captions directly in JPG (and other format) image files. Pdfsandwich and tesseract are optical character recognition tools. Pdfunite does the same thing for PDF files. I used convert to combine JPG files so that front and back are in one image. Software tools: Gwenview, exiftool, xsane, pdfunite, convert, pdfsandwich, tesseract and some others. FedEx Store has a self-service scanner that will make either JPG or PDF of them for 25 cents per scan. I used this for some flip-style calendars that my nieces made for several years.Īnd I had five items on 11x17 paper. I found 110 film very hard to feed through.Īmazon has dozens of different brands of these devices.Ī digital camera mounted on a tripod. Supposedly it handles 8mm and 110 as well. This is a stand-alone device that scans to an SD memory card. This scanner also happily pulled through postcards.Ī Xonos film scanner. It only takes 3 or 4 seconds to scan a photo. I could not put a stack on the sheet feeder, but it happily pulled them through one at a time. ![]() I used it for photos printed in modern sizes such as 3.5x5, 4圆 etc. It is a document feeder and will scan front and back at the same time. I also used it for newspaper clippings that could not go through the Fujitsu scanner and some odd-size stuff.Ī Fujitsu ScanSnap 5500M. I used this to scan a bunch of 2 inch by 2 inch photos which I think originated as 120-format film. This is a SCSI interface flatbed scanner at least 25 years old. I wound up using four different devices to do the scans.Ī VERY old Umax Astra 1220s. It did not all wind up in Gramps, but certainly some of it got there. My mother passed a few months ago and I got the task of digitizing her stash of family memorabilia. I am finishing up a major photo scanning project. ![]()
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