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What is the cheapest/easiest/quickest/best way to digitize thousands of paper photos? I realize these four parameters may be mutually exclusive. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

If you aren't concerned about the paper originals getting wrecked you could use an automatic document feeder and scan up to like 50 at a time.

If you care more for quality then use the flatbed scanner on a printer or a dedicated document scanner. Some scanner apps on Linux let you scan multiple flatbed images, which is just a timer that waits a certain number of seconds before starting another scan. That should make things a little quicker, but most ways will have you spend hours to scan 1000 documents.