Hand-held scanner recommendations?

In My Humble Opinion
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Mrs. R has decided she needs a hand-held scanner, apparently to digitize our massive pile of old photographs. I think she wants one that feeds the photo through all by itself (rather than the type you pass over the photo). And it has to be self-contained, that is, record images to some kind of memory–there are apparently ones that have to be connected to a computer to work, and that type won’t do. And the memory ought to be some kind that our Mac can access.

Any recommendations? She’s been looking at things on Amazon, and the reviews are just bewildering–there’ll be umpteen good reviews for a product, and umpteen “I’ve never owned such a piece of crap in my life, and the designers ought to be tarred and feathered” reviews. :confused:

Any help you guys could provide would be appreciated.

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Is the plan to just scan images to digitize them, or create quality digital scanned images for later digital use and/or retain some sort of sentimental value? If you really want the former, any hand scanner you buy will be dependent upon the user. It’s been my experience that hand-scanning all too often results in poor scans, and lots of do-overs. You are better off to buy a quality flatbed scanner.

That said, we bought an Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner a few years back. We scan all of our photos and documents with it. (Amazon link.)