<div dir="auto"><div>A possibly faster alternative worth considering is to use a camera instead of a scanner.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peter Krogh gives an overview and some tips for even better quality here: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=yxmFjvFLPu4">https://youtube.com/watch?v=yxmFjvFLPu4</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">digiKam can be used for tethered shooting similarly to how he uses Lightroom in that video.</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:47 AM Randy Wolf <<a href="mailto:randy.wolf@gmail.com">randy.wolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I have a two part question. Using digikam on windows. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm currently digitizing bunch of family photos using a scanner. Scanner has a crap feature to recognize and then scan bunch of individual photos placed on the platten at once. But it is implemented terribly, is slow, has poor edge detection, and generally not useful. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So... Questions</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) is there a feature or plugin or technique anyone knows of that would make it easy to scan a full platten with several photos and then easily split those photos into individual photos with the click of a button? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) does anyone have a technique or best practice for scanning both sides of a photo which has writing on the reverse in such a way that the photo and the reverse of the photo stay together forever? It'd be cool if photo formats had embedded front/back images in single file. I don't want to (only) transcribe the writing because sometimes the handwriting itself can provide clues about who wrote it, so I want to scan it. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bonus question: any chance we'll see a feature which will do OCR to auto transcribe words in photos and store it in searchable metadata? Useful for words in a photo but also for handwritten notes on the backs of photos as well. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks to the community and especially devs for such a great product. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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