Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I needed a scanner to copy many, many old photos that my quite elderly aunt has. I did a lot of research and ended up buying this one for two reasons: Apple recommended it for a MacBook Air which I had bought recently and the generally good reviews. I had planned to test it at home but ended taking it with me unopened on the plane. The only real problem I had setting it up was that to install the Epson software for a Mac you have to download the software - the CD provided only works for Windows, although there is a CD provided for loading Photoshop elements. Quite confusing, but the online help function was very helpful. I am amazed at how it restored old colored photos. There was one of my mother from around 1950 that was very yellow. I could barely see who was in it. It restored the photo. This is a picture that I had never seen. It brought to life a period in my now-deceased mother's life. The scanner also copied many old photos in black and white and also in sepia from the early 1900's. It restored them and provided me with lovely pictures of my grandmother and great-grandmother. I scanned over 600 photos in three days. That was made possible because of the other incredible feature. You can place multiple pictures on the scanner and if they are separated, the scanner recognizes them as separate pictures and scans them separately. This allowed me to scan the pictures four and five at a time. A huge timesaver. I am not a techie. Frankly, I didn't understand many of the reviews - way too technical for me. I used the auto functions and am very pleased with the result. The scanner is lightweight. I took it as a carry-on on United. The box was 144 linear inches and United allows a carry-on to be 145 inches.