Let me give you some advice: I had this situation in two forms, over 8,000 35mm slides, and close to 3,000 photographs, about 6-8 years ago.
I bought a Nikon 35mm slide scanner and devoted nearly two whole weeks of time, non-stop, probably 6-8 hours a day, to d the slides. It was a flipping nightmare, made better (compared to scanning photos) by the fact that everything was a consistent size and the software I used to import handled the naming/exposure. It was still a nightmare. When it was time to do the photos I sent them off to a lab that did it and paid a lump sump for all of them to be scanned, put on a CD and made available for download. It was worth every penny. I think it cost under $500, more like $350 if I recall correctly. That being said, I was once again faced with a huge pile of photographs for scanning from the mother in law about a year ago. I bought a purpose-built scanner with very good software from Epson. Epson FastFoto FF-640. It wasn’t cheap ($400) but it does a heck of a job and continues to provide excellent and fast scanning capabilities for photos and documents. Your time has value. -D > On May 26, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I have boxes and boxes of old family photos. I bought a Brother ADS 2700W > scanner I am going to use to scan these photos. I need some sort of > management app where I can put in a descriptor, names/places, years, etc. to > set up some sort of searchable database of all these pics, then share the > database/photos somehow/where for the extended family to access. > > The device has some sort of associated app called PaperPort I downloaded and > will be trying out, it looks kinda clunky on a quick look but maybe it will > suffice to get them into a scanned file. It doesn't seem to allow annotation > of images (only PDFs) with other descriptors. > > Google, Amazon, Picasa, Photobucket and others are online storage apps that I > know a little about, Amazon just seems to be a place to store photos and > vids, but no details on how to set it up to do what I want to do. Google > seems about the same. > > Anyone ever done something like this? > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
