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

[Jack Marxer]

I also use VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com/) software. It has worked well
for me for many years.
Regards,
Jack Marxer

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:58 PM Henrik Hemrin <hehemrin at hemrin.com> wrote:

> Adding a few comments from my experience, although not directly answers to
> your questions.
>
> So far, and I will continue, I use a flat bed scanner and a film scanner.
> Nowadays I use VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com/) software.
>
> I have just prepared myself with equipment so I also can do repro with a
> camera. My trigger for that is old photo albums where the photos are glued.
> I do not dare to rip them out as that will more or less destroy the photos.
> Nor is it easy to manage in a flat bed. So I am looking forward to try with
> the camera. Eventually I will test also for heg and pos due to the speed
> advantage, but prel I will continue with the scanner method. For Tethered
> camera control and capture, I have tested with Entangle which I think is
> promising (https://entangle-photo.org/), but that sw is only for those on
> Linux or BSD. A friend at my photo club has shared two ppt-presentations,
> text in Swedish but might be of interest. (I have not watch the suggested
> video below). https://www.erifk.se/presentationer/
>
> Regards
> Henrin Hemrin
>
>
>
> > 26 okt. 2022 kl. 17:47 skrev Randy Wolf <randy.wolf at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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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