Pros
Scans photos right from the photo album and lets you write captions. Scans multiple photos (black&white and color).
Cons
Does not scan negatives.
Summary
I have been using ScanSpeeder for 3 years and always get friendly customer support (thanks Brent - you were very helpful!). There are many nice features I like in this product. I scanned in several boxes of old photos and dozens of photo albums, both balck & white and color. My favorite feature is its ability to scan my photos right from the photo album page. Many of the photos I have are over 40 years old and I wouldn't even try to remove them. The "ink dropper" tool to sample the background color of the photo album worked well for my albums with black backgrounds. I also scanned in some newspaper clippings and other written things in the albums. I tried a few other programs before finding ScanSpeeder and I think this one is the best at finding the photos.
Pros
for color photo scans, works well and handles multiple photos
Cons
I have the Canon Lide220 and the Epson v39. For greyscale scanning (e.g., older photos), the software always gives an error message that there is a problem communicating with the scanner, even though it works fine for color scanning. Support is non-existent; no phone number or email address on the website.
Summary
DO NOT BUY. Support is non-existent with no phone number or email address on the website.
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Reply by ScanSpeeder on March 28, 2017
We're sorry to hear you had this experience. ScanSpeeder does scan old black and white photos using 24-bit color scanning. In your situation, you may have tried to scan in 16-bit greyscale.
Please contact us at http://scanspeeder.com/contact so we can help resolve this for you. Our support email address is posted there as well. We pride ourselves on our customer service and your satisfaction is very important to us. We offer a free trial and 100% money-back guarantee.
Sincerely,
Brent, ScanSpeeder Owner/Developer
Pros
Easy to use
Very simple and yet very effective
Cons
Doesn't always automatically select the scanned pictures, but not a big deal
Summary
Overall, awesome little program!! So great for scanning all those old pictures!
Pros
Saves a boatload of time. Very simple to use.
Cons
Not always the best at finding the edge of the photos. I have to adjust most of them.
Lack of finer tweaks such as resolution, etc. Then again, simple isn't always so bad
Summary
Beats the old fashion way by a mile!
Pros
* Extremely easy to use - not a lot of reading necessary, 5 min & go
* Works perfectly - auto-cropping, everything works marvelously
* Beats the heck out of scanning 1 at a time and manually cropping!
Cons
* Can't adjust jpeg compression settings, but definitely learning to accept that, may even like the whole TIFF thing better. What I mean is, I've always done jpeg, especially since "the old days" when storage space was so expensive and connections were so slow. EG: this software will scan tiff, jpeg, or both simultaneously, and at 600 dpi, a 4x6 pic is around 10 mb in tiff, 560k in jpeg. I did both on my first couple of scans and compared each, found effectively no difference. Still on the fence which way want to go, but at least have 'that' option.
Summary
Stop scanning 1 pic at a time and buy it!
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Reply by Jboy65 on May 6, 2012
Addendum: after using for 24 hours, I love it even better! My new favorite feature is the built-in safety. If you've ever done gonzo scanning of old pics, you know that you look on the workspace area and think "did I save that scan, can I hit the button and start the next one?" Well, this software is ingenious in that you can't mess up - the "start new scan" button isn't available UNTIL YOU HAVE - SWEET! I love to see good programming in action.
Pros
auto mode works as advertised and the manual mode is just plain easy if the photos are too close to each other. the easy to use labeling of the photos is cool. And the capture in tiff and Jpg simultaneously is nice feature.
Cons
the manual resizing on the cropping frame is hard to grab the corner handles to adjust the frame size.
Pros
Works perfectly, Installed on Win7 with no problems at all. Excellent.
Cons
Wish I could adjust the jpg settings.
Summary
Love this product and I am going to purchase it. You get to try 10 scans for free.
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