![]() This post was originally seen in the PhotowalksTV newsletter We spoke about scanning apps on the livestream edition of Photowalk Talks this week. This will help you archive them with better names than scan01 when you get back your 1,800 digital files back. One more tip: If you send your photos out, Goldstone recommends filling index cards to put the various photos together with similar file names, like Holiday 2022 and Europe Vacation. Most customers prefer 300 DPI, he says, but hey, if I’m going to archive my photos forever, I want the most resolution I can get, even if it costs more, adding $60 to the big box order. Goldstone says that many of his customers prefer paying less money for lower res files to display on social media, and “the quality is fine for that.” It starts at a very low 72 DPI and goes up to higher res 600 DPI. ![]() With, you want to pay attention to the different resolution quality being offered. You can also do it piecemeal, at 23 cents a piece, plus shipping, $25 minimum.Īll three are similar, in that you order a box, stuff in your photos, send them off, get scanned, and have the photos returned after they’ve been worked on. : Figure an average of $200 for 1,800 photos in a postage free box, plus a $15 download fee, says Mitch Goldstone, the co-founder of the company.iMemories: 50 cents per scan, plus $15 to order a box to stuff your photos in, with a free download or $40 for a USB thumb drive.Legacy Box: $160 for 250 scans, or $36 for 50 photos.Pricing for three of the most popular scan pros: You’ll pay for the services, and they’re not cheap. Photos are too important to live on as low-resolution smartphone scans. That said, for anything important photographically, I’m going to the pros. Apple’s AI eliminated all that clutter so my scan just had the card. The image below shows a card that was on my desk, surrounded by pieces of paper. I photographed my business card below with Apple Notes, and was impressed. The scans go directly to your Camera Roll. A hidden feature: it can also do document scans, by clicking the photo or docs tab within the app. But as a person firmly in the Apple universe, I have to give the nod to Apple’s Notes app, which many of us have used for jotting down quick things. The Adobe app is indeed useful for documents like receipts, contracts and the like. It worked for me with Google, not with Adobe. We are asked to line up four circles as we snap each image, to ditch the glare. How does Google get rid of the glare? By taking four images of the photo and merging them. (I had reflections galore with the Adobe app.) (It doesn’t even save files as JPGs, but PDFs, which shows you where Adobe’s intentions lie.) I way prefer PhotoScan by Google, which does a fine job, and best of all, works at ditching the glare we often find on framed wall photos. ![]() New York Times’s Wirecutter recommends Adobe Scan, but I found it not very useful for photos. And to scan a few photos at a time, I’d certainly turn to a photo scanning app. ![]() Our thanks to Prizmo by Creaceed for sponsoring MacStories this week.However, for contracts, receipts, business cards and other documents that we either want to save or keep copies of, the smartphone scan apps are invaluable. Prizmo for Mac is on sale, too, for 33% off ($/€39.99) on the Mac App Store. Through Sunday, March 6th, Prizmo’s Premium Pack, which is a one-time payment, is 30% off on the App Store, so be sure to download it today for just $/€13.99. Prizmo is localized in many languages, and it offers specific accessibility features for blind and vision-impaired users, including VoiceOver support and a dedicated text reader. And its most advanced one, Cloud OCR, is about to get an important update in the coming weeks with new, breakthrough capabilities. Prizmo offers not one but three OCR engines to handle the variety of languages and document styles too. It also comes with image and text exports and can create fully-formatted DOCX documents that you can edit further in Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. Prizmo edits are non-destructive, meaning you can reverse any operation at any time without the need of rescanning, so even your Apple Pencil annotations from a week ago can be edited at any time.Īmong Prizmo’s output formats, PDF gets many customizable options, including image compression level and a JBIG2 encoder for extremely lightweight black and white scans of just 40KB per page, useful for archiving large amounts of data. Prizmo also offers some of the deepest editing tools available in any scanning app, such as page curvature flattening, edge repair, background cleanup, user-editable OCR layout, and much more. ![]()
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