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

I started a project decades ago scanning in old photos with a flatbed scanner, and it took forever. At some point life took over, and I ran out of time to finish the project. The old flatbed scanner was outdated and no longer compatible with my laptop, so I took the plunge and shelled out for this, which is worth EVERY penny. It comes with a CD, but I easily found the software online and downloaded it, and it worked perfectly with my laptop. It is VERY FAST and easy -- automatically detects proper cropping or orientation if you drop the picture in crooked or sideways, and it's easy with a couple clicks to change orientation on the computer before you save the files. The scan quality is perfect, and the file size is small enough that they uploaded to my photo site WAY faster than new digital photos from a camera or phone. I was able to quickly finish my scanning project after all these years and organize the old photos to be given to those pictured one day when I'm gone.

This photo scanner is simple and very easy to use. The speed at which it scans photos and transfer to your computer is great. All photos scanned maintained the same or very similar quality. While the price may seem slightly high, it is a GREAT value for what you are receiving. After my father passed away we had to go through photos for the slide show, and this made it very easy. I've scanned over 3,000 photos with this scanner so far.

Very easy to use and you can adjust the picture quality after you scan it. Great to use and be able to scan photos to make a digital photo album.

Love this little scanner. Easy to use. Lots of functions to enhance old photos. The colors in the scans are really good. Well worth it if you have thousands of old photos to digitize. We previously spent $400 more than this one for a ScanSnap and It was terrible. Only a few things they could improve upon: a better physical guide so the photos feed straight and a feeder so you don’t have to feed the photos individually. These are really the only reasons for not giving it 5 stars. The quality and functions are 5 stars. It also is NOT a duplex scanner (doesn’t scan both sides if you have captions on the backside). However, once you start adding this feature you are into a more expensive scanner. Highly recommend this scanner. We love it!

I have a couple thousand photos to digitize and had "briefly" thought about using my flatbed scanner. I figured I'd be long gone before getting close to finishing this chore. One night I was thinking about this project at 3am and since I couldn't sleep I pulled out my phone and searched Amazon for photo input devices. Put this one in the wish list for the next day. After researching different models I finalized on this one and I am sure glad I did. It arrived next day and I immediately began using it. It is simply so very easy to use. So far I have processed 770 photos, each of which I use the included software to enhance the photos. Scanning the photos is extremely fast. The images are clean and as sharp as the photo. The included software blew me away as it does a very good job at fixing photo problems. Many old black and white photos from the 50s were faded and weirdly colored. The software Restore function made these look great. All in all I highly recommend this scanner. There is no way to digitize so many photos without a machine that is designed to do the job. This one fits the bill in every respect. It is priced at the lower end, which I like. I don't know what else could be added to warrant a higher cost. Revision next day..... Can I add an additional 5 stars to this review? I have scanned almost 1200 photos so far and am having a blast doing so. Unit just keeps on chugging along with no problems and the results never cease to amaze me. The old photos are coming alive. Sure is bring back memories!

I would give this 10+ if I could. I took a chance and purchased this scanner because my old one stopped working. I paid twice as much for my old scanner than this scanner. I bought this scanner in November but did not open it until February. Living not too far from the recent fires in Southern California and knowing the fire victims lost no only their homes but so many precious memories, I decided to stop procrastinating and open the box and get started. Setting up was really easy. I started scanning right away. The speed at which to scan photos was very fast. I actually had to go to YouTube to learn how to save my photos to a flash drive. It was very easy. It took me days to scan over 4,000 photos and I still have more to scan. I had old Polaroid photos that were thick and they glided through with no problem. My old scanner could not handle the thickness of the photos. It even scanned newspaper articles, small wallet sizes, 10x13, and torn photos. I will enhance all the photos that have faded later.

This scanner is great and very quick. The software has all different types of adjustment to make to your photos. Easy to hook up and use. Just have to download the software.

This scanner is an absolute gem for anyone looking to digitize their photo collection. I have been taking apart my bulky scrapbooks and it has handled every photo flawlessly. Even older, cropped or slightly imperfect prints came out beautifully in digital form, with impressive clarity. It is fast, handling up to 50 photo scans before saving.

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

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.

When I started to look for a photo scanner I was going to spend £400 plus on a multi-feed scanner, I'm glad I didn't. As it's very unlikely the very small photos from 40 - 90 years old would have been able to go in the auto feeder. That said this is a great piece of kit and works very well. you have to feed each photo but take's in the photo once the photo reaches a certain point and scans very quickly. I have scanned over 1500 photos over about 10 hours and this includes filing them etc. far quicker than an all-in-one lifting and placing each one. I already have four other scanners 2No A4 BW both sheetfed, 1no A4 single sheet colour and 1no A3/A4 multi feed/single sheet colour. Three are Brother, one HP. All are very good but none does this job as well as the Plustek Some reviews complain about the software but it does what it says on the tin its simple to use and once you get into the rhythm very easy. There is a limit of 50 photo for each batch but all you have to do is save this batch in a location of your choice and start again you can scan 1 or fifty it doesn't matter and save each time. The quality is fine and when you consider the age of some of the photos you are likely to scan and the cameras our ancestors used. This scanner brings out a good image sometimes better than the original. I am very pleased with it. One note, this scanner does not scan negatives for that you would need a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE which is about £300. It's been very good value for money especially when you consider the competition.