Scanning

When we picked up boxes from Scott's house in Elgin (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/09/stuff.html), there were a few boxes of photos to scan in. This was a task that Carl had planned to accomplish while RVing, but it had not yet come to the top of the to-do list.

With quite a number of pictures to scan, and since the scanning software that we had on our computers only scanned one picture at a time, Carl started doing research on products that might help. He narrowed down the choices to two products (ScanSpeeder and VueScan), each of which allowed you to do a few scans to try out the software. He found that ScanSpeeder seemed to be the easiest to use, automatically recognized multiple photos on the photo bed, and gave great quality for the photos he had to process.

Here is an example showing the original and the scanned result:

The software does a great job of color correcting to take out the yellowing that has come about with age, and allows you to notate with information that may have been on the back of the picture.

It will allow you to scan as many pictures as fit on the scanner bed, recognize each picture separately, and put each picture into a separate file. We've brought in the HP 7310 All-in-One printer that was in Miss Doozie -- it has a larger scanner bed and seems to do brighter scans than the printer/scanner that we will be keeping in Gracie. So, Carl has done some scanning while we've been here at the farm. We are debating whether to take the pictures with us and continue scanning as we travel, or whether to leave the pictures and scanner here in the container to work on at a later time when we are here at the farm. But we're thankful to have software that is helping to make this task a little less onerous!