Customer Ratings & Reviews

Batch feeding photos is a huge timesaver. Was able to scan wallet sized photos smaller than guide widths successfully. Should have purchased it way sooner!

The Epson FastFoto FF-640 is approx 11 inches wide and about 8-9 inches tall and 8 -9 inches deep. The small footprint belies its speed and power. Out of the box experience is very simple. While an installation instruction sheet is provided, there is no need for it. Just remove the packing tape, click in the output tray, plug in the power cord and connect it to a computer USB port where you will store the scanned output. I downloaded the scanner driver from the Epson website and the software installation was a breeze. If the scanner is connected before software installation is started, user is prompted to remove and reconnect the USB cable during the installation process at the appropriate time. Simple installation, simple setup. There are a few options that you can choose/configure during the setup process including the ability to select the directory for where the scanned images are stored, ability to perform color correction, choose from one side or two sided scanning, scan directly to cloud services such as DropBox, Google Drive, etc. I kept it simple - just plain one-sided scanning saved locally on my computer hard drive with no upload or auto color correction or two sided scanning. Based on past experience, I have yet to see good output from auto color correction. I am happy to work on it manually. Once you have it configured, scanning is a breeze. In about two hours, I was able to scan almost 1500 4x6 photos including sorting by size/direction/events. A 600 dpi scannned image took a little over 1.2 megabyte of storage space. Scan time was less than two seconds. You can start by loading approx 30 photographs and then add to it as the quantity depletes. I was able to scan in batches of 150 photographs without a pause through this process! Really easy and fast. Not a single jam. After about 800 - 900 scans, I was reminded to use the provided cloth to clean the rollers for paper dust. I did not run into any problems and scanned another 600 - 700 without needing to wipe/clean of the rollers. No paper jams. Imagine this to be a high speed copier you use at the office. Load the feeder bin and watch the output show up on your computer in seconds. The unit is connected to a 5 - 6 year desktop with 8 meg of RAM. No load/sweat for the desktop. Images showed up immediately. No processing lags. I have a few thousand more pictures and I am sure I will able to knock them off in a couple of hours next weekend. Thanks to the FastFoto FF-640, the scanning part is quick and easy. A few years ago, I borrowed a large number of black and white pictures from my dad and manually scanned them using a Visioneer flat bed scanner. I wish I had this Epson scanner for that work. What took me literally a few weekends then, I could have completed it in less than two hours with the Epson scanner. Scanned output looks good on my 25" monitor. Now for the suggestions/improvement areas: 1. Would have been nice if it can be networked and shared with others (may be it is possible but have not tried it) 2. For the price, I am surprised that the max optical scan resolution is only 600 dpi. My Canon MFC printer costs a third less and supports 600 dpi. I hope Epson improves this 3. Price - Quite a hefty price for something that you will not use for long. What i mean here is that once you have scanned your pictures, you will not need to use it on a regular basis. I have switched away from film DSLR camera to digital DSLR camera about 6 years or so ago. Mobile phones have accelerated this move away from printed copies. Long term, this will likely gather dust unless you have a small business on the side to offer scanning services I have only scratched the surface and used it to scan 4x6 photographs. I have a lot more to discover and scan old legal documents, etc. While the product was provided to me by Epson at no cost as part of a beta test, my review, comments and feedback are an unbiased review of the product. Drop me a note if you have any questions and I will be happy to help. I would have given it an additional half star if it was not for the price

Quality of photos restored is great. Would recommend this to anyone who has tons of photos to digitize.

This scanner is great. Only drawback...I had to call customer service to help setting it up. Directions were insufficient.

The scanner is a nice compact size. It fits perfectly on a small shelf. Because it is so user-friendly, it would be perfect for anyone with boxes of photos hanging around (including Grandma) to digitize their entire collection of prints. It scans stacks of photos quickly and is very simple to use. The accompanying software is also very useful. You can set it to automatically enhance the photos and to save the enhancements as a second file if you wish. This feature is handy if you want quick improvements to a large quantity of photos. I also really liked the option to date and name batches of photos, making the digital files much easier to organize on the computer. Compared to a traditional scanner, the FastFoto 640 is an easy choice if you are looking to digitize a large quantity of photo prints or documents. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

Fastest scanner I have ever used, scanner makes picture quality great once scanned , works great on old photos to .

This TV has a wonderful picture and is an excellent purchase for the price. I would highly recommend to others.

Great scanner, fast and efficient. Using it to do old family photos from the 1940s and it is doing a great job.

For quite some time I have been seeking a backup to my slides and pictures....this product does that.

Bought to use to scan photos. Quality has been great. Also, like the ability to organized into labeled folders.

My mother uses this to put all my family’s old pictures onto Facebook for the whole family to view.

Using it to copy 5 large Rubbermaid bins of family photos. So far no problems and the photo correcting feature works good for basic fixes. Only feature that would make better is if it could do Polaroids.

Love the photo printouts. Right out of the box, it worked fine. Installation disk did all the work for me.

This best feature of the scanner is the multifeed. You can put on a whole deck of photos at one time.

Great desktop device to eliminate paper documents. If it had its own shredder it would be perfect.

Scanned thousands of photos for digital cloud storage. No negatives, per se, but photos can occasionally get stuck if the stack is too high.

My wife loves this - Mac compatible and faster than a speeding bullet - it's Epson super scanner

I would recommend this to everyone. It is a great product

Making it possible to put MANY years of photos onto flash drives for family members

This is so awesome for scanning and backing up photos and memories