Cheap automatic scanning of thousands of photos - do you recommend HP OfficeJet 5610 with ADF?

Question

Hi,

I have literally thousands of my old photos and I would like to finally scan them all. Scanning on a flatbed scanner takes ages and I'm thinking of something at least partially automatic.

Recently I've came across HP OfficeJet 5610 which has something called the Automatic Document Feeder. As far as I understand it, it should be able to take a series of photographs (or any documents) and scan them in a series.

But seeing it on a picture I'm worried if it won't destroy originals. Photo paper, especially old one, is not so soft as a normal printer paper and I wonder if this ADF won't destroy the potographs while turning them to scan? ADF seems to be quite small...

Do any of you have any experience with this or similar scanner with ADF?

Or could you suggest any better (and cheap) solution of doing automatic scanning of photographs?

Thank you!
Daniel

Answer 1

paper feed would not be the best for old photographs! i would go flatbed! but some flatbeds has a feature where you lay several pics down and it will scan all of them at once, and save them indevidually! i got a lexmark flatbed and it does it! hp makes really well products! stick with hp!