Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

Mike Hack- Digitize Old Paper Photos

11 May 2020 · 1 min

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In this short, informal video, Mike Hack shares a quick home‑project for digitizing decades‑old family photos. He pulls a box of pictures from the attic, shows a photo of his son and wife that’s about 18 years old, and demonstrates using a Plustek ePhoto flatbed scanner. While on a call, he scans the images, showing the live preview on the screen as each picture is captured. He compares this DIY approach to using a commercial service (Legacy Box), noting that the scanner is cheaper, faster, and more enjoyable. The video serves as a casual tip for anyone stuck at home who wants to preserve old printed photos themselves.

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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 thing called. It's called plustek E photo. I don't know if you can see it there, but PlusTech e photo. And he's put it in, and boom, it's done. And as I'm on claws, 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, and I'm just sitting here while I'm doing my calls, just scanning these in. I was using legacy box, which 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.