Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have been searching for a way to digitize my photos for the last decade. Nothing I have tried up until now has offered the ease of use and the time saving ability that this scanner provides. I wanted something intuitive, with high resolution, and that can get the job done fairly fast. It takes about 3 seconds a photo at 300 dpi. The Ambir Photo Scanner checks all those boxes and more. I use this device in conjunction with my NAS and it is an incredible system. Of course you can use this with any cloud based photo album like Google photos, Dropbox, Apple, One Drive your choice. I really like the auto enhance feature. It seems to correct a lot of bad lighting and even attempts to upscale the video resolution the best it can. Set up is very simple and I was up and running and under 10 minutes. The scanner scans whatever you drop in the tray, even my old 80s Polaroids. Use this scanner to save some money converting all your photos from your physical albums to digital over the course of a weekend or so.

The AMBIR photo scanner is an easy to use photo scanner. SETUP: Setup was simple. It only requires a single USB connection and no external power. It does have USB-C which is nice for newer devices, and it includes a USB-C to USB adapter if you don't have those connections. APP INSTALL: The app isn't digitally signed so Apple devices will have to bypass some warnings to install. That's not a deal breaker, but does require some additional steps which feels like a miss for the target audience of those wanting a simple, easy to use photo scanner. SCAN QUALITY: It scans at up to 600dpi. Again, this feels like lower than it should be for a photo scanner. Many All in One devices have much higher scan quality. FEEDING: The feeder mechanism works well, but is not quick. They claim 3 seconds for a 4x6 at 300dpi. You have to feed a single picture at a time. OVERALL: Honestly, I wanted to like this, but had a hard time doing so. At a $250 MSRP, it feels like it should be faster, scan at higher resolution, and have the ability to feed in multiple pictures in a single pass. However, if you want something that is easy to use and only requires a single cord to operate, this is an okay choice. It'll sit on the shelf in my office and I know I can grab it to scan in a photo if I don't want to put it on a flatbed scanner.

This photo scanner helped me take boxes and boxes of old photos and organize them in a way I didn't think was possible. I have seen other photo scanners that just save photos with file name, dump them on your hard drive.... and that is it. The Ambir scanner came with software to help sort, label, tag people in the photo and much more. The best comparison I can make is that the things you can do with your pics on your cell phone can now be done with your old boxes of photos. Finally, a product that make it worth spending the time to preserve these old pics/memories!

It was great to finally organize and sort my old photos. The scanner and software were very easy to use. It is a great intuitive product.

Great tool for preserving and sharing old photos with entire family. Allowed me to take boxes and books of old family photos, save, sort and share them with my family.