[digiKam-users] Feature, plugin, or advice scanning old photos

[Mike Morrison]

A possibly faster alternative worth considering is to use a camera instead
of a scanner.

Peter Krogh gives an overview and some tips for even better quality here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yxmFjvFLPu4

digiKam can be used for tethered shooting similarly to how he uses
Lightroom in that video.


On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 11:47 AM Randy Wolf <randy.wolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a two part question. Using digikam on windows.
>
> 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.
>
> So... Questions
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks to the community and especially devs for such a great product.
>
>
>
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