Preserve what's priceless with the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Preserve what's priceless. Quickly scan your photo collection in a whole new way with the innovative FastFoto FF-640 - the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Protect your photos and save time and money by doing it yourself. With the FF-640, you can scan thousands of photos - as fast as 1 photo per second. Single-step Technology automatically scans both the image and handwritten notes on the back. Restore faded photos, and upload high-quality images to the cloud. Seamlessly digitize life's special memories. The FF-640 was designed to accommodate fragile photos or even large panoramic photos.
Preserve what's priceless with the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Preserve what's priceless. Quickly scan your photo collection in a whole new way with the innovative FastFoto FF-640 - the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Protect your photos and save time and money by doing it yourself. With the FF-640, you can scan thousands of photos - as fast as 1 photo per second. Single-step Technology automatically scans both the image and handwritten notes on the back. Restore faded photos, and upload high-quality images to the cloud. Seamlessly digitize life's special memories. The FF-640 was designed to accommodate fragile photos or even large panoramic photos.
Preserve what's priceless with the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Preserve what's priceless. Quickly scan your photo collection in a whole new way with the innovative FastFoto FF-640 - the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Protect your photos and save time and money by doing it yourself. With the FF-640, you can scan thousands of photos - as fast as 1 photo per second. Single-step Technology automatically scans both the image and handwritten notes on the back. Restore faded photos, and upload high-quality images to the cloud. Seamlessly digitize life's special memories. The FF-640 was designed to accommodate fragile photos or even large panoramic photos.
Preserve what's priceless with the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Preserve what's priceless. Quickly scan your photo collection in a whole new way with the innovative FastFoto FF-640 - the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. Protect your photos and save time and money by doing it yourself. With the FF-640, you can scan thousands of photos - as fast as 1 photo per second. Single-step Technology automatically scans both the image and handwritten notes on the back. Restore faded photos, and upload high-quality images to the cloud. Seamlessly digitize life's special memories. The FF-640 was designed to accommodate fragile photos or even large panoramic photos.
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Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanner - Black
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This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.First off, in my professional work I process technical documents, drawings, field photographs, and many other paper-based data. I am also an amatuer photographer with a passion for the dark room. I am constantly using the office scanner to digitize my information and occasionally bring my photos to a digital format. I have been using the Epson FastFoto FF-640 for the past few days and have found it's scanning speed to be incredible. Even with the large business grade multi-function at work, the scanning experience is still arduous. I have found the FF-640 to be excellent at large document scanning such as multi-page manuals or catalogs, and the software seems ... MoreThis is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.First off, in my professional work I process technical documents, drawings, field photographs, and many other paper-based data. I am also an amatuer photographer with a passion for the dark room. I am constantly using the office scanner to digitize my information and occasionally bring my photos to a digital format. I have been using the Epson FastFoto FF-640 for the past few days and have found it's scanning speed to be incredible. Even with the large business grade multi-function at work, the scanning experience is still arduous. I have found the FF-640 to be excellent at large document scanning such as multi-page manuals or catalogs, and the software seems designed with a consideration for bulk processing; even including a batch naming option. For scans of multi-page documents, I have found setting up a single scan for multiple pages to be extremely conveinient, especially when you enable OCR functions. Overall, for someone like myself working with documents of differing mediums, it is almost essential to bring it all into a digital form now a days and the Epson FF-640 is amazingly efficient at doing that. I had no trouble setting up the scan and feeding the documents right out of the box; it worked exactly as expected.As for the scanners true demographic function, the FF-640 became a specticle wherever I set it up (the office, my relatives house, my home). It scans so fast...that it's entertaining to watch; my wife literally thought it was just spitting the picture right back out. Then I showed her that not only was it scanning the pictures (in a perfectly respectable resolution by the way)...but it was also scanning her notes from the back of the photo in a single pass. There isn't a single photograph in our home not in digital form now. Being a film photographer who develops in house, I had concerns about the feeding mechanism damaging some of my less than perfect cuts. I also had a large amount of photographs passed on to me that are quite aged. The feeder handled each and every photo perfectly and never jammed. For a photographer (even a mid sized photo studio) I have nothing but glowing review of the FastFoto FF-640, it is simply the best and most conveinient photo scanner I have encountered.The only aspect I see preventing the average amatuer photographer/heavy document digitizer from taking the plunge on this one without any question is unfortunately the price. While the FF-640s performance and feature offering is a cut above the rest, the price pushes it into an almost "pro-sumer" category of business-grade devices where a whole new range of competing products enter the picture. Most people with photos needing digital conversion would be better served to simply pay the one time copy house charges to have the work done for them.
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I have been scanning film for a very long time, and so I am used to using a scanner fairly regularly. I have grown used to the frankly tedious process of scanning endless strips of 35mm film using a flatbed scanner, but I had not even begun to touch the mountain of old photos that lurked in boxes in my attic. This scanner is the first product I have used which made me even attempt to scan them all in, and I am happy to say that not only did I start on the photos, I finished them.The FastFoto FF-640 is the best way that I have found to scan a large volume of photos or documents. There are other scanners out there that also use a top-feed to scan things, but they do not scan to JPEG (which is essential for photos…I do not want my photos saved as PDFs) and will not ... MoreI have been scanning film for a very long time, and so I am used to using a scanner fairly regularly. I have grown used to the frankly tedious process of scanning endless strips of 35mm film using a flatbed scanner, but I had not even begun to touch the mountain of old photos that lurked in boxes in my attic. This scanner is the first product I have used which made me even attempt to scan them all in, and I am happy to say that not only did I start on the photos, I finished them.The FastFoto FF-640 is the best way that I have found to scan a large volume of photos or documents. There are other scanners out there that also use a top-feed to scan things, but they do not scan to JPEG (which is essential for photos…I do not want my photos saved as PDFs) and will not scan at nearly the resolution of this Epson scanner. 300 DPI should be sufficient for nearly anybody, but people who would prefer even more resolution (me) can scan at 600 DPI. The ability to scan up to 30 documents at a time is fantastic, as is the ability to scan the back of a photo or documents. A lot of my photos have dates or locations scribbled on the back, so this was a feature that I really appreciated. Personally, I liked the simplicity and lack of extraneous options on the scanner. Some may prefer more customization options, but I think this product has a very specific intended usage, and was designed to accomplish it as straightforwardly as possible.The files themselves are of impressively high quality considering the speed at which the scanner operates. I have used photo-scanning services before to batch-scan a large number of photos, and the quality of this scanner is indistinguishable from the quality of scans I got back from that service. The optional photo corrections are also quite nice, though I sometimes had a photo or two in a batch of thirty that needed a little personal care in some editing software to get a scan I was happy with. There are only a few shortcomings. The first should be a simple fix…there is not (to my knowledge) an option to apply corrections to only certain photos in a batch. Some photos I wanted scanned exactly as they were, and some I wanted corrected. I sorted these into different stacks, and scanned them separately. This did not cause any significant delays, but it did slow me down a bit. The second issue is the lack of a Mac version of the FastFoto software. There are other options, but the FastFoto software is actually quite good, and I would like the option to use it on my Mac as well as my Windows PC.Overall, I would give this scanner a hearty recommendation to anybody who wished to scan a large number of photos or documents. While it is a bit pricey compared to a flatbed scanner, time is money, and this scanner saves an incalculable amount of time. The only feasible alternative to a scanner like this one would be to use a batch-scanning service, which could cost as much anyway if you have enough photos, and does not give as much flexibility on how you would like them scanned, labeled, and stored. For its purpose, I think it is the best product currently on the market.This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.
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I have scanned over 17000 hard copy photos using the 640. These were a variety of professionally developed and printed photos I took with my 35mm film camera (1964-1999) and those my father developed and printed in his darkroom (1935-1955), and newer commercial copies of my digital photos (1999-Present). The quality of the paper varied from slick to rough. The sizes varied from very tiny ( a couple of inches on each side) to 8 1/2 by 11. Without the 640, it would be impossible to complete this task in my lifetime. I scanned all at 600 dpi and did not ask the 640 to do any photo correcting. It's speed was absolutely amazing. The only issue I had was that since I was scanning a variety of paper hard copies of old and new photos, there was a lot of dust and paper ... MoreI have scanned over 17000 hard copy photos using the 640. These were a variety of professionally developed and printed photos I took with my 35mm film camera (1964-1999) and those my father developed and printed in his darkroom (1935-1955), and newer commercial copies of my digital photos (1999-Present). The quality of the paper varied from slick to rough. The sizes varied from very tiny ( a couple of inches on each side) to 8 1/2 by 11. Without the 640, it would be impossible to complete this task in my lifetime. I scanned all at 600 dpi and did not ask the 640 to do any photo correcting. It's speed was absolutely amazing. The only issue I had was that since I was scanning a variety of paper hard copies of old and new photos, there was a lot of dust and paper residue which would adhere to the scanner lens mechanism. This caused me to have to watch all the scans as they popped up on my computer, in real time, and look for the tell-tale white streaks which would indicate some contaminant on the scanner lens. Then I would stop the scan process, open up the scanner, blow out the insides with a rubber blower brush, and use a damp micro-fiber cloth on the lens mechanisms. Then I would redo the ones with a white streak and continue. For old or dusty picture files, expect to do this about every 30 - 45 photos. I used the rubber blower brush most often, but each day after I was finished scanning, I would take the scanner outside and use a very powerful blower to totally blow out any paper or dust residue which might still be inside. The quality of the scans seemed very good. Maybe I could have achieved higher quality with my Epson flat bed scanner, but I would still be working on the first couple of hundred and probably would have abandoned this project because it was taking so long. The cost of this scanner is very high, but when you have thousands of photos like I did, the cost to send them to a commercial scan service would be much higher, plus you have to organize them all beforehand by size and date - a really painful task. I set up file folders for each year and tried to run all I had for each year at one time and put them into their respective yearly folders. The 640 let me work at my own pace, a thousand or so each day. When I got tired, I stopped. Bottom line: If you have a lot of photos to scan, this device is the way to go. It is fantastic!
Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanner - Black
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Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanning System with Auto Photo Feeder BRAND NEW
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This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.First off, in my professional work I process technical documents, drawings, field photographs, and many other paper-based data. I am also an amatuer photographer with a passion for the dark room. I am constantly using the office scanner to digitize my information and occasionally bring my photos to a digital format. I have been using the Epson FastFoto FF-640 for the past few days and have found it's scanning speed to be incredible. Even with the large business grade multi-function at work, the scanning experience is still arduous. I have found the FF-640 to be excellent at large document scanning such as multi-page manuals or catalogs, and the software seems ... MoreThis is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.First off, in my professional work I process technical documents, drawings, field photographs, and many other paper-based data. I am also an amatuer photographer with a passion for the dark room. I am constantly using the office scanner to digitize my information and occasionally bring my photos to a digital format. I have been using the Epson FastFoto FF-640 for the past few days and have found it's scanning speed to be incredible. Even with the large business grade multi-function at work, the scanning experience is still arduous. I have found the FF-640 to be excellent at large document scanning such as multi-page manuals or catalogs, and the software seems designed with a consideration for bulk processing; even including a batch naming option. For scans of multi-page documents, I have found setting up a single scan for multiple pages to be extremely conveinient, especially when you enable OCR functions. Overall, for someone like myself working with documents of differing mediums, it is almost essential to bring it all into a digital form now a days and the Epson FF-640 is amazingly efficient at doing that. I had no trouble setting up the scan and feeding the documents right out of the box; it worked exactly as expected.As for the scanners true demographic function, the FF-640 became a specticle wherever I set it up (the office, my relatives house, my home). It scans so fast...that it's entertaining to watch; my wife literally thought it was just spitting the picture right back out. Then I showed her that not only was it scanning the pictures (in a perfectly respectable resolution by the way)...but it was also scanning her notes from the back of the photo in a single pass. There isn't a single photograph in our home not in digital form now. Being a film photographer who develops in house, I had concerns about the feeding mechanism damaging some of my less than perfect cuts. I also had a large amount of photographs passed on to me that are quite aged. The feeder handled each and every photo perfectly and never jammed. For a photographer (even a mid sized photo studio) I have nothing but glowing review of the FastFoto FF-640, it is simply the best and most conveinient photo scanner I have encountered.The only aspect I see preventing the average amatuer photographer/heavy document digitizer from taking the plunge on this one without any question is unfortunately the price. While the FF-640s performance and feature offering is a cut above the rest, the price pushes it into an almost "pro-sumer" category of business-grade devices where a whole new range of competing products enter the picture. Most people with photos needing digital conversion would be better served to simply pay the one time copy house charges to have the work done for them.
I have been scanning film for a very long time, and so I am used to using a scanner fairly regularly. I have grown used to the frankly tedious process of scanning endless strips of 35mm film using a flatbed scanner, but I had not even begun to touch the mountain of old photos that lurked in boxes in my attic. This scanner is the first product I have used which made me even attempt to scan them all in, and I am happy to say that not only did I start on the photos, I finished them.The FastFoto FF-640 is the best way that I have found to scan a large volume of photos or documents. There are other scanners out there that also use a top-feed to scan things, but they do not scan to JPEG (which is essential for photos…I do not want my photos saved as PDFs) and will not ... MoreI have been scanning film for a very long time, and so I am used to using a scanner fairly regularly. I have grown used to the frankly tedious process of scanning endless strips of 35mm film using a flatbed scanner, but I had not even begun to touch the mountain of old photos that lurked in boxes in my attic. This scanner is the first product I have used which made me even attempt to scan them all in, and I am happy to say that not only did I start on the photos, I finished them.The FastFoto FF-640 is the best way that I have found to scan a large volume of photos or documents. There are other scanners out there that also use a top-feed to scan things, but they do not scan to JPEG (which is essential for photos…I do not want my photos saved as PDFs) and will not scan at nearly the resolution of this Epson scanner. 300 DPI should be sufficient for nearly anybody, but people who would prefer even more resolution (me) can scan at 600 DPI. The ability to scan up to 30 documents at a time is fantastic, as is the ability to scan the back of a photo or documents. A lot of my photos have dates or locations scribbled on the back, so this was a feature that I really appreciated. Personally, I liked the simplicity and lack of extraneous options on the scanner. Some may prefer more customization options, but I think this product has a very specific intended usage, and was designed to accomplish it as straightforwardly as possible.The files themselves are of impressively high quality considering the speed at which the scanner operates. I have used photo-scanning services before to batch-scan a large number of photos, and the quality of this scanner is indistinguishable from the quality of scans I got back from that service. The optional photo corrections are also quite nice, though I sometimes had a photo or two in a batch of thirty that needed a little personal care in some editing software to get a scan I was happy with. There are only a few shortcomings. The first should be a simple fix…there is not (to my knowledge) an option to apply corrections to only certain photos in a batch. Some photos I wanted scanned exactly as they were, and some I wanted corrected. I sorted these into different stacks, and scanned them separately. This did not cause any significant delays, but it did slow me down a bit. The second issue is the lack of a Mac version of the FastFoto software. There are other options, but the FastFoto software is actually quite good, and I would like the option to use it on my Mac as well as my Windows PC.Overall, I would give this scanner a hearty recommendation to anybody who wished to scan a large number of photos or documents. While it is a bit pricey compared to a flatbed scanner, time is money, and this scanner saves an incalculable amount of time. The only feasible alternative to a scanner like this one would be to use a batch-scanning service, which could cost as much anyway if you have enough photos, and does not give as much flexibility on how you would like them scanned, labeled, and stored. For its purpose, I think it is the best product currently on the market.This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.
I have scanned over 17000 hard copy photos using the 640. These were a variety of professionally developed and printed photos I took with my 35mm film camera (1964-1999) and those my father developed and printed in his darkroom (1935-1955), and newer commercial copies of my digital photos (1999-Present). The quality of the paper varied from slick to rough. The sizes varied from very tiny ( a couple of inches on each side) to 8 1/2 by 11. Without the 640, it would be impossible to complete this task in my lifetime. I scanned all at 600 dpi and did not ask the 640 to do any photo correcting. It's speed was absolutely amazing. The only issue I had was that since I was scanning a variety of paper hard copies of old and new photos, there was a lot of dust and paper ... MoreI have scanned over 17000 hard copy photos using the 640. These were a variety of professionally developed and printed photos I took with my 35mm film camera (1964-1999) and those my father developed and printed in his darkroom (1935-1955), and newer commercial copies of my digital photos (1999-Present). The quality of the paper varied from slick to rough. The sizes varied from very tiny ( a couple of inches on each side) to 8 1/2 by 11. Without the 640, it would be impossible to complete this task in my lifetime. I scanned all at 600 dpi and did not ask the 640 to do any photo correcting. It's speed was absolutely amazing. The only issue I had was that since I was scanning a variety of paper hard copies of old and new photos, there was a lot of dust and paper residue which would adhere to the scanner lens mechanism. This caused me to have to watch all the scans as they popped up on my computer, in real time, and look for the tell-tale white streaks which would indicate some contaminant on the scanner lens. Then I would stop the scan process, open up the scanner, blow out the insides with a rubber blower brush, and use a damp micro-fiber cloth on the lens mechanisms. Then I would redo the ones with a white streak and continue. For old or dusty picture files, expect to do this about every 30 - 45 photos. I used the rubber blower brush most often, but each day after I was finished scanning, I would take the scanner outside and use a very powerful blower to totally blow out any paper or dust residue which might still be inside. The quality of the scans seemed very good. Maybe I could have achieved higher quality with my Epson flat bed scanner, but I would still be working on the first couple of hundred and probably would have abandoned this project because it was taking so long. The cost of this scanner is very high, but when you have thousands of photos like I did, the cost to send them to a commercial scan service would be much higher, plus you have to organize them all beforehand by size and date - a really painful task. I set up file folders for each year and tried to run all I had for each year at one time and put them into their respective yearly folders. The 640 let me work at my own pace, a thousand or so each day. When I got tired, I stopped. Bottom line: If you have a lot of photos to scan, this device is the way to go. It is fantastic!
The Epson FastFoto 640 is the best scanner for archiving your pictures to your hard drive. The initial installation and configuration for the scanner was as simple as downloading the software, installing the software and driver, and plugging the scanner into the computer. The computer recognized the device right away and I was able to start scanning and saving pictures and documents to my computer. Loading photographs to the scanner was a breeze, I was able to take a stack of 30 at a time, and I was able to scan roughly 120 photos from various albums and start sharing them on social media in under 10 or so minutes without any issues. This by far is the speediest scanner that I have ever used. In addition, the Epson FastFoto 640 also scans documents and saves them as ... MoreThe Epson FastFoto 640 is the best scanner for archiving your pictures to your hard drive. The initial installation and configuration for the scanner was as simple as downloading the software, installing the software and driver, and plugging the scanner into the computer. The computer recognized the device right away and I was able to start scanning and saving pictures and documents to my computer. Loading photographs to the scanner was a breeze, I was able to take a stack of 30 at a time, and I was able to scan roughly 120 photos from various albums and start sharing them on social media in under 10 or so minutes without any issues. This by far is the speediest scanner that I have ever used. In addition, the Epson FastFoto 640 also scans documents and saves them as PDFs.With the Epson scanner, you are able to scan both sides of your pictures, which is nice if you have descriptions, dates or other information on the back of your photos. In addition, the software allows you to fix minor problems with your photos such as redeye, brightness, color, saturation and will enhance the colors of faded pictures. You are able to have the enhancements or edits performed on the pictures and have the original saved with no edits done.The included carrier sheet is a pleasant addition to use on fragile or delicate items, just place the photo or photos within the carrier sheet and you are able to scan and save without damaging the originals.My overall experience with the Epson FastFoto 640 was positive, the scanner is speedy and accurate, and I have not experienced jams when scanning a stack of photos. The scanning software is very good for scanning and saving, but the smart photo fix is okay if you do not have any photo editing software. I would highly recommend this scanner for anyone who has lots and many non-digital photographs.This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.
I have used this scanner for thousands of family photos and I'm generally pleased. It is much faster than a flatbed and the resulting images are quite good, generally capturing the visible detail in photographic prints. The 600 dpi resolution is quite adequate for all but the most specialized prints. The FastFoto software offers the option to correct or enhance the image, and it can optionally save both the as-scanned image and the adjusted one. The software can also detect information on the back of a photo and save it as a separate JPEG with a letter appended to the file name of the front image.Like any automatic process, though, one should carefully check the results. I often tweak the images a bit along with choosing which one to save in each pair. Note that ... MoreI have used this scanner for thousands of family photos and I'm generally pleased. It is much faster than a flatbed and the resulting images are quite good, generally capturing the visible detail in photographic prints. The 600 dpi resolution is quite adequate for all but the most specialized prints. The FastFoto software offers the option to correct or enhance the image, and it can optionally save both the as-scanned image and the adjusted one. The software can also detect information on the back of a photo and save it as a separate JPEG with a letter appended to the file name of the front image.Like any automatic process, though, one should carefully check the results. I often tweak the images a bit along with choosing which one to save in each pair. Note that the document/print feeder means that, unlike with a flat-bed scanner, you cannot adjust the scan parameters in a preview and then do a detailed scan without re-inserting and re-scanning, which may result in a slightly shifted image; only the more complex Epson Scan 2 software even has a Preview option.The automatic adjustments in FastFoto are somewhat hit or miss. Usually, the most noticeable adjustment is an increase in contrast, but on a faded photo it can sometimes give me a good head start on trying to recover color or contrast. It also sometimes finds and corrects red eye. I usually end up using the raw scan, though, because the contrast increase is a bit heavy-handed and often loses shadow and highlight detail from the prints that already have limited dynamic range compared to the original slides or negatives.The feed mechanism sometimes struggles, with rare multiple feeds or jams. Once in a while part of a photo will be stretched in the scan direction, apparently because the feed rollers were slipping, and running the photo through again will often result in the same distortion. It may be due to some imperceptible surface defect or contamination on the photo, but if so I can't see it and carefully cleaning the photo and rollers seldom has any effect. Usually, turning the photo 90 or 180 degrees and scanning it again solves the problem. The user's guide cautions against loading Polaroid photos, but I have not had a problem with them.
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 ... MoreI 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.
This is a review for the Epson FastFoto that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanning System is a modern versatile scanning system. Not only does it do multiple jobs at once, but it provides the best quality a photo scanner can have. Known as the World's Fastest Photo Scanner, Epson FastFoto FF-640 is proven the ultimately best, scanning over thousands of photos within 1 photo per second2 at 300 dpi.Create your digital world within seconds, by restoring old pictures to great quality images brought to life. Designed to restore fragile, faded, old pictures within seconds into great quality imaging that can be imported as JPEGs or PDFs. This scanner is great because you can also scan front and back of any ... MoreThis is a review for the Epson FastFoto that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanning System is a modern versatile scanning system. Not only does it do multiple jobs at once, but it provides the best quality a photo scanner can have. Known as the World's Fastest Photo Scanner, Epson FastFoto FF-640 is proven the ultimately best, scanning over thousands of photos within 1 photo per second2 at 300 dpi.Create your digital world within seconds, by restoring old pictures to great quality images brought to life. Designed to restore fragile, faded, old pictures within seconds into great quality imaging that can be imported as JPEGs or PDFs. This scanner is great because you can also scan front and back of any pictures, use customizable picture sizes for scanning, etc. You can also stack several pictures at once on the canner, no need to waste time one by one and it automatically feeds in next picture for scanning. Pretty fast, convenient, all in one scanner.Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanning System is ideally the best photo scanner on the market. Doing your scanning jobs within seconds and restoring them to high quality, Epson FastFoto is proven the World's Fastest Photo Scanner. This scanner not only scans but organizes your lifelong photos, saving, and sharing images all at once. With options of creating slideshows, enhancing photos via software this scanner is the best. Their is no other scanner as good as this one, everyone should have one in their home. It was a honor for me to review this product and share my experience with the world. No other scanning can provide the best in quality and high speed photo scanning than Epson FastFoto FF-640 High-Speed Photo Scanning.
This is a review for the Epson FastFoto that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. By receiving this product free of charge to do a beta test and review I am providing my true honest unbiased review of this product. I can say how amazed I was when I heard about this product that was going to be released. I have over 120,000 photos from way before digital days. I have had photos since way back in the 70's. Some of the photos were very old and delicate. I was afraid to put them in the scanner but then I saw that the scanner came with a protective sleeve for some photos that are brittle, or damaged. It allows you to slip the photo into the sleeve, and then load it into the scanner, without any further damage to the photo, to me that is a nice ... MoreThis is a review for the Epson FastFoto that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. By receiving this product free of charge to do a beta test and review I am providing my true honest unbiased review of this product. I can say how amazed I was when I heard about this product that was going to be released. I have over 120,000 photos from way before digital days. I have had photos since way back in the 70's. Some of the photos were very old and delicate. I was afraid to put them in the scanner but then I saw that the scanner came with a protective sleeve for some photos that are brittle, or damaged. It allows you to slip the photo into the sleeve, and then load it into the scanner, without any further damage to the photo, to me that is a nice addition. I would also like to say that I have never seen a scanner that works so quickly. The time it took to scan multiple photos all at once and be able to auto correct the photos where I did not have to reopen the photos and edit changes because this time the auto correct feature actually was so smart that it knew what to fix and I was super satisfied about the way the results of it turned out. Yes people would say and think that the price may be pricey but to be able to multiple scan tons of photos and be able to put the most fragile delicate photos in a sleeve and then load it into the scanner to scan without impacting the photo is well worth it all to be able to cherish memories and turn them into digital to show to everyone and upload to Facebook and to email and send to family members and generations of relatives that once could not have had access to the photos. The unit comes packaged very nice and I really like the layout and design of the scanner physically itself and the easy interface that the software provides. I highly recommend this to everyone who has tons of photos that would like to turn digital. Also what really caught my attention was how Epson thought to care about the customers in mind with old delicate photos and provided the sleeve option. I was quite surprised when I found out this option and had to try it out for myself and I was extremely surprised and so super happy with the results the sleeve and scanner provided. Also besides photos you can scan documents at a fast rate also. If anyone is in the market or was wondering what to do with very delicate photos that they do not want to get ruined then please look into this Epson scanner machine and I promise you that you will not be one bit disappointed.
This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. If you have ever scanned in or taken pictures of old photos to digitize them then you know how time consuming the process can be scanning in each picture individually. The FastFoto scanner fixes this problem by allowing you to scan stacks of photos at a time very rapidly. The initial setup was very fast and easy such that anybody could figure it out. The only hard part here was that the website to get the FastFoto software did not come up. I had to search on the internet to find it, it would have been nice if they included a cd with the software, but many products these days don’t.To start the scanning process all you have to do is press a button and it ... MoreThis is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. If you have ever scanned in or taken pictures of old photos to digitize them then you know how time consuming the process can be scanning in each picture individually. The FastFoto scanner fixes this problem by allowing you to scan stacks of photos at a time very rapidly. The initial setup was very fast and easy such that anybody could figure it out. The only hard part here was that the website to get the FastFoto software did not come up. I had to search on the internet to find it, it would have been nice if they included a cd with the software, but many products these days don’t.To start the scanning process all you have to do is press a button and it launches the software for you and you can enter in the date the photos were taken to create a folder where it puts all of the pictures. Then all you have to do is put a stack of photos in face down and upside down then it scans them in. The program then auto corrects flays and defects in the photos getting rid of red eyes and making the photos look better than the actual prints themselves. The software alone is great, so good we decided not to use the store an original copy and the enhanced copy, but just to save the enhanced copy. So far we have scanned in 1600 old photos and it has only taken up 1.56 Gb on the default dpi. I had to clean the scanner every few stack of pictures because of dust or some debris from the pictures, this creates white streaks in some of the photos but goes away once cleaned. Overall the product works excellent and helps greatly reduce the time it takes to digitize photos. The price tag is fairly hefty though and I would not purchase this product for that price. A price range of around $200 would probably be a better price point for this product that more people could afford or see spending on a photo scanner.
I once ran a digital imaging lab in a museum on Capitol Hill in DC in conjunction with a large computer company who installed their high-resolution scanner at our facility to allow us to digitize historic photos and documents. I have a degree in photography and tons of experience managing a small museum lab that was staffed by interns who I recruited to assist with the project.Digitizing old photos is a time-consuming task, requiring careful handling of the images. I am not sure that a scanner such as this one is the safest way of going about digitizing historic old photos, however if doing so one-by-one in a carrier sheet (if they have torn edges, chipped emulsion, etc) could be an option over a flatbed or overhead scanner.Scanning my own contemporary images in ... MoreI once ran a digital imaging lab in a museum on Capitol Hill in DC in conjunction with a large computer company who installed their high-resolution scanner at our facility to allow us to digitize historic photos and documents. I have a degree in photography and tons of experience managing a small museum lab that was staffed by interns who I recruited to assist with the project.Digitizing old photos is a time-consuming task, requiring careful handling of the images. I am not sure that a scanner such as this one is the safest way of going about digitizing historic old photos, however if doing so one-by-one in a carrier sheet (if they have torn edges, chipped emulsion, etc) could be an option over a flatbed or overhead scanner.Scanning my own contemporary images in my collection is another matter, and while I have thousands of historic images of events that I've documented over the course of my career I am not concerned about running them through the batch processing feeder in multiples of 30 because they are in great shape. I took measures to preserve these images in archival sheets, and they are as crisp and clean as they were the day I brought them home from the processing lab.This scanner is amazing. It's so much faster than using a flatbed, or overhead like the one we had at the museum. I just scanned a days worth of images in about 15 minutes. What once was a laborious and painstaking task is now as easy as making a print. This scanner requires no special skills other than being able to evaluate whether or not the scanned image looks as good as the original (if not better).There are many features that I like, such as the batch scanning, the ability to apply enhancements to one image and save the unedited original, the 600 dpi option, as well as choosing to load them into Apple's Photos application or just make specialized folders with biographical information and to import them into the software later. I choose this method because I want to evaluate each image carefully before I import them into Photos and/or Lightroom, etc.The software is as good as it needs to be for scanning, unless you are going to try to scan a lot of images that aren't exposed well. High-end scanning software such as Digital ICE can still be used at one's own expense. I am as particular as they come about the quality of scans, and I am perfectly fine with the software Epson provides. I am actually really impressed with its ability to get shadow and highlight detail.This is one very welcomed invention, and I will be using this machine (which has a smaller footprint than a flatbed scanner and takes up so much less room) to digitize thousands and thousands of photos. I hope it holds up and have no reason to believe that it won't. There are recommendations for maintaining the scanner, and I do wish that it came with a dedicated dust-cover, but I am making do with a small sheet of plastic.Run, don't walk to the nearest place that sells this scanner if you have a lot of images to digitize. It's reasonably priced for what it does, and is a huge improvement over the laborious process of flatbed and overhead scanning.THANK YOU, EPSON!!! You saved my bacon with this invention!
