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Make digital copies of treasured photographs or important documents with this Epson FastFoto photo scanner. Red-eye removal and color enhancement tools let you quickly touch up scanned images for optimal results. This Epson FastFoto photo scanner has a maximum optical resolution of 600 dpi to ensure accurate electronic reproduction.
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Great way to digitize those old photo albums!
on October 29, 2016
Posted by: Syncroz
I have been wanting to scan my family photo albums into digital form for years, but on a flatbed scanner it would take ages to do one by one and having to tweak each one with an editing program. Its just too much time, and thats why it hasn't got done. The Epson Fastfoto 640 lives up to its name. It scans photos incredibly fast. Just a second to scan each photo. The FF-640 unit itself is compact and fits on your desk easily - its much more compact than a flatbed scanner. You can fit over two dozen photos in the feeder at a time and it will automatically scan them - and even scan the back of them if you'd like! This is a very handy feature when names or locations were written on the back years ago.
Epson has been making scanners for decades, so its no surprise their hardware is top notch. However thats only half of the equation. I'd like to speak about their Software now, which is the critical part that makes this scanner a worthy purchase. Scanning software is all too often a secondary thought for hardware manufacturers with few options besides scanning an image and saving it as a jpg. Epson here shows the depth of their experience by including very smart features in their software, which will streamline scanning of old photos into streamlined digital albums.
The software is not like photoshop with a million options you don't need or understand. It simply asks you where it should save the images on your computer, what enhancements it should do to your photos such as restoring faded colors (critical for bringing old pictures to life), removing red eye, and auto-enhance, which helps fix photos which have exposure problems, which lots of old photos do. It has two options for scanning resolution, 300 and 600 DPI (dots per inch). What this means is that you can scan 4x6 photos at the higher resolution and then print new, fixed copies at 8x10 or larger. This is a great way to make fresh new enlargements from cherished childhood memories. I've already taken a faded 4x6 from my parents wedding and turned it into a beautiful wedding anniversary present for them.
For the savvy folks, the software also has the ability to upload all the scans directly to your Dropbox or Google Photos account. This is the way to share your scans with family all over the world easily. It also scans documents just as fast. You can scan sheets of writing in just a blink of the eye, and it outputs them as searchable PDF files. You can use the included OCR software to turn written word into computer text even.
I think the Epson FastFoto FF-640 is the perfect scanner for anyone who is looking to digitize a lot of photos in a little time. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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