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Got this about a month ago and, until now, just used it for standard document scans, which it did very well. Today, though, I got inspired and started scanning wedding and other "archival" type paper photos. The Epson is way, way cool. At first, I imported into Adobe Photoshop thinking to improve each photo. A person should ALWAYS read the directions(ooops...). I switched to the Epson scan utility that came with the scanner. You put, say, six photos down on the scanner, run the Epson utility in automatic, and it separates out each individual photo, tries (not always successfully) to orient the photo, then saves to you document/photos folder automatically. That's great! I ran our entire wedding album (from 35 years ago!) -- 60 photos in about an hour. It did a fair job of cleaning them up (dust; off-color) from the album they'd been sitting in for all those years. We live in a high-fire danger area in California. Each spring we go through and put post-its on stuff we want to grab-n'-go should a fire threaten. The photo albums (non-digitized) have always been so marked. Today I finally am starting to digitize all that then upload onto a remote backup server (iDrive) so they're now archived and preserved off-site. Not to advertise anything specifically but I encourage anyone living in an area with floods, fire, hurricanes, living in a wooden house & etc. to back up anything you can scan and archive remotely to do this now(!). How many times have you seen news clips of people going through the ruins of their homes and talking only about the mementoes -- not the house, not the furniture etc. -- but the photo albums and family history that's been lost. So, a good start would be this Epson scanner coupled with some sort of remote storage (google drive or whatever). Well worth it.