Pandigital Photolink Scanner (Model: PANSCN02)Ī slightly less common option, and one that would presumably be quicker would be to use a relatively inexpensive portable scanner - like those made by Pandigital. So here's just three reasons - enough to convince me. Over the last several months, I've really been considering digitally capturing the back and archiving them away too.Ī true list with all of the reasons why one might want to do this would be quite long.
If you aren't sure how to do this, you might be interested in the “how-to” article I wrote on adding captions to your photographs. It's either a date when the photo was taken, the names of people in the photo, or sometimes - like in the photo above - a lengthy description.Īll of this information is very important to me.īut my idea was that after I finished scanning a group or envelope full of prints, I would then spend a little bit of extra time and type all of this information in the blank “description” or “caption” field in my photo manager. This is even considering that maybe 60% of my family's prints have handwriting on the other side.
When I started scanning my photo collection, I had no plans to scan the backs of my prints.