A dedicated scanner will result in higher-quality scans, but asmartphonecan process photos more quickly.
By scanning photos together in clusters, its easier to file them later.
Wipe down the scanner bed, too.
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Align the edges of the pictures.
terminate the lid, start the scan, and check the resulting image.
If everything looks good, place a new set of photos on the scanner and continue.
Later you’ll be able to separate the pictures from the group scan.
When you’ve finished processing all of the photos, this part of the job is done.
Each saved file is a collage of pictures, so you’ll need to separate them individually.
When ready, use a photo editing program to open a scanned image file.
Crop one of the individual pictures,rotate if necessary, and save it as a separate file.
nudge the undo button until the image reverts to its original, uncropped state.
Continue this cropping process until you’ve saved a separate copy of each picture within each scanned image file.
Many image editing/scanning software programs offer a batch mode that automates the scan-crop-rotate-save technique.
Quick Scanning With a Smartphone
Smartphones work well as a surrogate for a dedicated scanner.
It’s available forAndroidandiOS.
Tap theScanbutton to start the processing; youll see four white dots appear inside the frame.
When complete, PhotoScan automatically performs the stitching, auto-enhancing,cropping, resizing, and rotating.
Files save on your smartphone.
