Christie JungeA Plus Solutions Inc. · CEO | Profit First Professional

Mike Hack- Digitize Old Paper Photos

11 May 2020 · 1 min

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In this informal YouTube demo, the speaker shares a home project of digitizing decades‑old family photographs using a Plustek ePhoto scanner. While on work calls, he pulls photos from the attic, places them in the scanner, and watches them appear on the screen, noting that the images are of his son and wife and are about 18 years old. He compares this method to using a Legacybox service, emphasizing that the Plustek solution is cheaper, faster, and more enjoyable. The video serves as a practical, stay‑at‑home suggestion for turning a messy attic of printed photos into digital files during lockdown.

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Using this as an opportunity to do a little work at home. My office is kind of a mess because we have all these pictures in our attic, so we took them all out. Here it is. Here's one of the pictures of my son and wife. And I got this, this thing called the— it's called Plustek ePhoto. I don't know if you can see it there, but Plustek ePhoto. And you just put it in and boom, it's done. And as I'm on calls I've just been banging these out. Let me show you the screen here. So right there, it just pops on the screen. So there's my old little baby son. Those, by the way, are almost 18 years old, these photos. And you just pop them out. So I'm on calls, um, and I'm just sitting here while I'm doing my calls, just scanning these in. I was using Legacybox, which, um, seems pretty good, but This is cheaper, faster, and it's actually more fun going through all the old photos. So just an idea, something to— some home project that you can do that I'm doing right now while we are stuck at home.