Plustek Photo Scanner ePhoto Z300, Scans 4x6 inch Photos in 2 Seconds, Auto crop and deskew with CCD Sensor, Supports Mac and PC

This scanner is so easy to use and gives great results! No cropping needed. You have to scan in each one individually, but it's quick, and a lot of pictures won't batch scan anyways since they stick together, so I wasn't concerned about that feature. So happy to finally find a scanner where I don't have to lift the lid to place. I've scanned thousands of old photos as well as documents & memorabilia. Highly satisfied at a great price!

Excellent product. Highly recommended.

Like many others, I have multiple boxes of old photos, and I've started on the project of converting them to digital images. I put a lot of time into researching photo scanners, and the ones I was interested in were pretty pricey. Timewise, this project is out of the question using the flatbed scanner available in my printer. After a lot of research, I decided on this Plustek scanner. I've had it for about 7 or 8 months now, and I love it. You can scan up to 50 photos at a time with no buttons or adjustments - just feed the photos in one at a time. At 300dpi, the process is fast. The images drop into Plustec's software, and you have the ability to do some editing and color adjustment. I've found that this software works well for me, is easy to use, and is all I need. I just want to get all these photos scanned in and organized and I'm not terribly interested in any serious editing at this point. I'm especially happy with the color enhancement that's available for those old color photos from decades past that are fading or turning yellow - it really gives those photos new life, just by clicking on a button or two. I have other photo editing software on my laptop, and I'll worry about serious editing later, if I even decide to go that far. After I've made any quick color adjustments, I just move the photos onto my hard drive, where I can organize them., and save them on an external hard drive. The Plustek scanner does a great job and has a very attractive price tag. The user manual is detailed and very helpful. I've heard good things about the customer service, but I haven't needed to use it. There's also a case available for it here on Amazon, and I keep it in the case on my desk to eliminate dust. The scanner doesn't take up much room on the desk, so I keep it there to work on my scanning project when I have a little extra time. I recommend this scanner for anybody who's looking to tackle a photo archiving project without breaking the bank.

Update: I changed from a one star to a 4 star. I returned the first scanner as you can see below. However, I loved the size and ease so much and there were so many positive reviews that my husband bought me another one. Once again the green line showed up. I decided to contact the manufacturer before returning this one. I was told the green line appears because of dust and to clean the lens. WOW, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!! It takes time as I need to check each picture, thus a 4 star review instead of 5 stars, but it's a great little scanner!!! I searched and searched for the right scanner and this seemed to be the best for my budget. I had read the reviews where the pictures ended up having lines in them, but there were so many positive reviews, that I decided to take a chance. I scanned about 150 photos before the line started showing up. I re calibrated and that didn't help, so I shut the machine down and left it over night. Got up this morning and tried again and the lines are still there. I am SO disappointed as it worked so well, the program that comes with it works well and all the pictures until the green lines showed up were beautiful. I hope they can fix this to make it work right. It scanned fast even at 600 dpi, it small and easy to use.

LOVE this photo scanner. I had been looking for a way to quickly digitize prints and provide decent quality. My HP flatbed printer scanner is way too slow. A friend recommended the Plustek Z300, and it works great. You just feed the photo into the roller scanner and it scans it and shoots it out about as fast as you can load it. (You have to load each one, no batch processing.) SCAN SPEED: At 300 dpi, it zips prints through faster than I can load them. Even at 600 dpi, it's pretty fast. Scans small prints to enlargements of 8x10 or 8.5x11. IMAGE QUALITY: I'm a photographer, so I'm pretty picky about my images. The image quality straight from the machine is pretty good if the photo was shot in daylight. If it was shot in other lighting or the photo is faded, it may need some correction, but the editing software makes it quick and easy to correct once you learn the various functions. Way faster than using Photoshop to open each photo and adjust. I use 300 dpi for most photos and 600 dpi for photos that are special/important. EASY TO INSTALL: It comes with the application software on a CD or you can download it from their website. Was super easy to download and start using. Pretty intuitive to use. PROS: Good image quality, fast, small desktop footprint. Works with PC or MAC. CONS: Sometimes, it's a little tricky lining up the photo straight to be fed into the scanner. Would be nice if there was some adjustable edge guide you could line it up with. Although if you're a little crooked, the software will auto correct. Because it's a roller feed, you can't scan pages in a book. But that's what a flatbed scanner is for. Be sure your photos are dust free or it will show up in the scan. OVERALL: If you have a bunch of photos you need to archive/scan, this will do the trick with minimal hassle. Great way to digitize an entire photo album or shoebox (however you store them) quickly. Highly recommend this!

Simple, rápido y efectivo. Hace lo que dice. Que no es poco.

Prima apparaat, scannen van foto's gaat heel vlot en gemakkelijk. De bijbehorende software werkt weliswaar goed, maar de gebruiksvriendelijkheid kan beter. Er zijn te veel muisklikken nodig bij het nabewerken van gescande foto's. Dat kan veel efficiënter.

This little photo scanner works really well. It is easy to use and scans pictures fast (a few seconds per pic). It shipped very quickly. You can set the "prefix name" of pictures so if you are scanning from a trip or something you can set the initial name of the pictures and it will add a counter on the end so you don't have duplicate names. The scan resolution is 600dpi and it isn't perfect but the quality is decent and honestly absolutely worth it to get rid of the boxes of pictures we inherited from family. The scanner comes with a CD which is useless to most computers these days but the software can be downloaded from the Plustek website (last updated Apr 2021) and it has some nice features for cropping and optimizing image quality of the scanned images along with setting the scan location so pictures can be saved to cloud storage right away. Note a 600dpi 4x6 picture is between 5 and 13 MB (depending on colour and complexity of photo) Overall, extremely happy with this purchase, well worth the $ compared to an Epson Foto which is over twice the price!

Der Scanner ist sehr gut; speziell für den Preis. Ich habe mit der Weile einige hundert Fotos verschiedenster Formate und auch diverse Dokumente damit eingescannt. Die Qualität ist gut. Klar es ist kein Premium Gerät und mit einem Profiscanner könnte man wahrscheinlich mehr aus den Bildern rausholen. Aber dann liegt der Preis auch ganz schnell bei etlichen Hundert Euro. Das Gerät ist einfach zu bedienen und man kann mit der mitgelieferten Software die Bilder scannen und auch gleich bearbeiten. Die Auflösung lässt sich zwischen 300 und 600dpi umschalten. Bei 600 dpi geht diue Geschwindigkeit runter und das Ergebnis ist nicht so viel besser, dass die zusätzliche Zeit gerechtfertigt ist. Es lassen sich immer nur 50 Bilder einscannen. Dann muss einmal gespeichert werden. Aber damit kann ich leben. Generell ist die mitgelieferte Software recht einfach und intuitiv zu bedienen. Sie kommt nicht an gute Photobearbeitungssoftware ran, aber dafür ist sie ja auch nicht gemacht. Nachbearbeiten mit anderen Programmen geht immer. Aber die Ergebnisse sind recht gut. Ich habe recht alte Bilder aus den 70er und 80er Jahren gescannt und die Farben sind Teils schon stark verblichen. Mit der Funktion "Weißabgleich" kann man mit einem Klick die Farben wieder herstellen. Das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen. Auch hier gibt es bestimmt bessere Programme, aber man muss sich halt auch immer FRagen, was man mit den Bildern vorhat. Wenn man "nur" alte Aufnahmen sichern möchte kann man schnell und einfach große Mengen digitalisieren. Auch Dokumente kann man schnell und mit guter Qualität sichern. Bei allem hilft der automatische Einzug. Man muss zwar die Bilder einzeln einlegen und warten bis sie durch sind, aber das erleihtert die Arbeit deutlich im Vergleich zu einem Flachbettscanner wo man immer alles einzeln auflegen muss. Fazit: In der Preisklasse ein sehr gutes Gerät. Kann ich empfehlen.

Dovendo scannerizzare foto di famiglia in grande quantità erano anni che cercavo qualcosa di più veloce rispetto ad uno scanner piano dove devi mettere la foto, lanciare la scannerizzazione, alzare coperchio, togliere la foto ed inserirne un'altra etc etc........capite bene che scannerizzare così 1500 foto viene male!!! Mi sono imbattuto in questo scanner di un marchio Plustek che non è certo l'ultimo arrivato e di cui avevo già uno scanner per negativi e diapositive che funzionava molto bene. Appena l'ho visto ho subito fatto ricerche sul sito per capire le sue caratteristiche e per quello che dovevo fare io (scannerizzare 1500/2000 foto a 300 dpi) era perfetto. L'ho quindi acquistato e si è rivelato molto meglio di quello che pensavo....oltre ogni aspettativa. La scannerizzazione a 300 dpi è velocissima e in una serrimana ho già scannerizzato 800 foto. Oltre a questa velocità mi ha piacevolmente stupito anche il software di cattura perché consente molte funzioni di miglioramento della foto. Proprio quello che cercavo. È tutte queste funzionalità sono sempre molto intuitive e automatiche. Cercavo proprio questo. Non sto dicendo che sia lo scanner migliore del mondo ma è un ottimo mix tra qualità e velocità. Non volevo perdere mezz'ora a foto per correggerla.......volevo proprio qualcosa che sistemasse la foto al volo rendendola più che discreta. Pensate a foto del 1920 o 1930 o anche foto di solo 40 anni fa tutte ingiallite e virare. Perdere 30 minuti a foto........avrei finito fra 20 anni!!!! Con questo attrezzo in una sola settimana come dicevo ne ho fatte 800 e tutte corrette al volo e con ottimi risultati. Ho provato anche la scannerizzazione a 600 dpi giusto per provarla e funziona sicuramente bene ma a 600 la scannerizzazione diventa molto più lenta....cosa peraltro dichiarata anche nelle specifiche. Esegue scannerizzazione solo a 300 e 600 dpi e nella maggior parte delle volte è più che sufficiente. In soldoni un grandissimo strumento che mi sta salvando da un lavoro infinito. Unica nota negativa: avrei voluto che applicasse in automatico i miglioramenti software a tutte le foto e invece sono costretto a selezionare una alla volta ad applicargli le correzioni. Poco male......è una operazione molto veloce. Per me quindi consigliatissimo. Roberto.