Scanning Photos

Steve Walker16

Scanning Photos

I have noticed several posts that you have referenced high speed scanning. Working on family history at home, I am wondering what equipment and/or software that can be used to scan pictures, slides, documents, etc. in a high speed manner. I have a all in one printer that scans, but I am wondering if there is some technique that will speed up the process of scanning.

Dennis J Yancey

[be sure and expand post]

 

Most large office copiers that can copy pages at very high speeds and do so from an autofeed tray - can also scan the same documents at the same speed and generate to pdf to flash drive.

 

I have seen 100's of pages scanned in a few minutes - and emailed to me via pdf.

 

here is some discussion on the matter

 

http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/scanning.htm

 

http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/familysearch.htm

 

https://community.familysearch.org/s/feed/0D53A00004tDPFsSAO

 

https://community.familysearch.org/s/feed/0D53A00004tFYrmSAG

Dennis J Yancey

[be sure to click "expand post" ]

 

So here is a very average Xerox copier that can scan at 45 pages per minute.

probably way faster than your "all in one printer".

https://www.office.xerox.com/en-mf/multifunction-printers/workcentre-4250/specifications

It appears the world's fastest copiers are about 150 page per minute.

 

Now . . .. I am not suggesting you go out an buy one of these expensive machines for your own use . . . . I'm just suggesting if you think about it - you may be able to think of ways you can get access to a high speed scanner. One way is at your local office supply store.

 

Dennis J Yancey

what kind of items were you planning on scanning? Do you have any items that would be processed well by feeding them into the paper feed of a scanner/copier?

 

different formats and media - require different methods . . . share with us more about your scanning project.