# Multiple Photo Scanning software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976 "2008-07-28T20:57:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976/1 "2008-07-28T20:57:48Z")

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Ugh, I hate Vista for the little things.  
I am positive that before I upgraded to Vista, I was able to load my flatbed scanner full of pictures, and run a single preview scan. From that preview I was able to adjust borders and scan and save individual pictures. It was a quick and dirty way to get a large amount of photos scanned. Now I am not able to do that (or at least I haven’t stumbled across a method). Every single photo has to be previewed, adjust, and scanned. It’s a HUGE pain to do that over and over and over.

This is really a problem now that my mother has died. My family dumped a ton of old family photos on me to scan for everybody. I need to find a way to scan lots of photos rather quickly.

What are your hardware or software or any other suggestions suggestions?  
I can’t be the first person who has faced this problem.

Thanks,

E3

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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976/2 "2008-07-29T14:41:37Z")

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Vuescan should do this with any scanner. It is not the most user-friendly program, though.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976/3 "2008-07-29T18:49:52Z")

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An Epson should be able to do what you want. I have an [NX400](http://www.amazon.com/Epson-C11CA20201-NX400-all-in-one-Printer/dp/B001A5SK2Y/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=office-products&qid=1217357176&sr=8-7) and its software is capable of selecting multiple images from a single document.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-photo-scanning-software/457976/4 "2008-07-29T20:56:15Z")

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Thanks you two. I was getting worried that this thread was going to drop into thread oblivion.

I’ll check these out.