Customer Ratings & Reviews

I should mention that I was sent a free Fast Foto scanner to review, but I'm pleased that I accepted. FastFoto was very easy to assemble - took no more than 5 minutes. The product doesn't take up much space. It's approximately 12" wide and 5" deep and sits neatly on my desk. Basically you take off the protective tape, insert the paper guide into the scanner, attach a UBS cord to your computer, plug it in and go. Oh yes and you have to download software from the Epson site, which also took less than 5 minutes. Once the software is downloaded, any 6 year old can do the rest. Press "ready" insert photos and boom, that's it. On trying it out for the first time I was able to scan old photos that had been lying in my work area - waiting to be put in a photo album. How old school! Now they reside on my desktop and are stored in the cloud - forever. Can't wait to tackle my parents' old photo albums which have been sitting on the top shelf in the closet for years. Every time I open up the album to look at old photos the pictures fall out of their sleeves - what a mess! Soon they too will reside in the cloud. And I can send copies to my kids and siblings so we all can share the memories.

This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. I have a Windows and Mac computer so I installed it on both to see how it would function. The installation is quick and simple as long as you read and follow the small set of instructions. This is a very practical tool for digitizing old photo albums. With this scanner, you can take a stack of your photographs, place them at the top of the feeder, and it will scan them one by one extremely quickly. The FastFoto software has setting which allow you to modify the quality of the photographs, and designate how and where you would like to save your scanned images. The input tray is resizable so the scanner can take multiple sizes of photographs. It even has links to upload your images to Dropbox or Google Drive. The scanner does not seem to be able to scan the old instant polaroid types of picture, and it seems to get jammed when scanning paper items. Over all I was very impressed with the speed in which I was able to finish scanning my family's photo album using the Epson FastFoto 640, and I recommend this product.

This has been something that I have wanted for a while due to the vast amount of pictures I have in boxes in the attic. This has saved me numerous amount of time and money in scanning and organizing my pictures. The setup of the scanner was also very easy and didn’t take more than 5 minutes. I like how it is compact and doesn’t take up much space on the desk. The scanner is surprisingly very fast and hasn’t skipped any of the pictures inserted into the feeder. With the push of a button the scanner is off doing its thing while you sit back and relax (but not too long as before you know it the scanning is completed). I also like that it can scan both sides of the pictures in case you have notes on the back side of the picture. It scans everything in one go so it doesn’t need to be refed through the scanner. The Epson FastFoto 640 can also scan documents very fast as well. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

I bought this because I had a LOT of pictures that we needed to scan so we would not lose them forever. I know this scanner is expensive, and I hemmed and hawed about buying it but decided to bite the bullet and get it. I was so glad I did. After setting it up (which took about 10 minutes), I scanned one picture for a test. It was an old, grainy picture from 1980 taking with either a 110 or disk camera. It scanned it, rendered it on the PC, corrected color and other things as best it could and showed it on the screen in about 3 seconds. It looked AWESOME. I then scanned about 15 pics from the same stack and that took about 10 seconds to do all of the above. I was pleased and thrilled with the results. The scanner is expensive, but due to the speed and quality, I think it's worth every penny and if you can catch it on sale, even better. Spend the money (or maybe invest the money), it's worth it.

I've had this for a couple of days now and have tested photos in various papers, including Epson's Legacy Fibre, Ultra Permium Luster, and the Hot Press Bright Smooth Matte paper, along with other school photos and photos that were developed on standard Kodak paper. It is a fast machine and the scans at the highest quality settings were good, but not justifiable for the price. The replication of the color with each paper was not matched at all. I also noticed that most of the photos I scanned had scratched added onto them on the final scan, these scratches were not in the original photo and were added during the scanning process. The software that comes along may be good and easy to understand for anyone to use straight out the box. It additionally has this enhancement feature to correct the images, but I was not impressed by the color correction of it. The instructions included are straight forward and it took about 10 minutes from opening the box to getting the first photo in the feeder reader to scan. One of the things that's warned about in the instructions, is that Epson doesn't recommend you scan Polaroid photos as there is a possibility that they may get damaged, however, when I first received the scanner, I saw the it has Polaroid pictures on the box as advertising that they could be scanned. I did not scan my Polaroids, as they are of my grandparents and did not want to risk damaging them. Overall, I would only recommend this to someone who has the money and likes to get things done fast. But if you want to get the best quality, I'd recommend you buy a flatbed, it will be slower, but the quality generally comes out better. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

Disclaimer: This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. I have boxes and albums full of old photos. Family memories gone by, that will never be lived again. So when I had the opportunity to get this device, I jumped at it. The scanner came in a fair sized box, but the device itself isn't too large. It was easy to setup and be scanning within 10 - 15 minutes including the software download. You can put up to 30 photos at a time, and it scans fairly quickly. The bonus feature is the double sided scanning, to save important info that might be written on the back of photos, such as names, dates or locations. If you are in the market for a photo scanner, this should be one you look at. The price is a bit steep, but once you work with this scanner, you will understand why.

The Epson - Fastfoto Ff-640 is a great tool for those looking to archive decades worth of photos. I was able to create digital copies of photos from the last two decades, and the double-sided scanning feature allowed me to save the notes and comments from loved ones that appear on rear of photos. I was able to scan over a 100 (single-side) photos in less than 5 minutes. The small and compact size of the FF-640 made it fit nicely on my current desk environment, placing nicely next to my printer. My only caveat: There is no WiFi connectivity. I understand the logistics of fast photo scanning might not be best with WiFi, but I'd gladly take slower photo scanning for wireless connectivity. “This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.”

This is a review for the Epson Fastfoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. This photo scanner is fast. it has two speeds one is much faster than the other. the slower speed allows for a much better quality picture and is still speedy. It comes with a sleeve to put old photos or photos that need special protection during the scanning process. it creates folders to place your pictures in so it is easy to keep organized. I found the product easy to use speedy and it makes being the family historian so much easier since I know no that my pictures are in the cloud or stored on my computer. I feel that my pictures are ready to be shared with future generations. the box is easy to open and the product is nicely sealed and secured in the box.

The scanner is easy to setup and use out of the box. The software is a bit clunky but gets the job done. The default settings are set to only 300dpi but can be adjusted higher. It can also scan more than 30 photos at a time at a rate of up to one per second. The downfalls of this scanner are that it is a high pricepoint for the features. It does not scan film negatives and has poor to no networking features. It also does not allow for direct scanning to a cloud provider as far as I have noticed. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

The Epson FastFoto 640 is like no other. It quickly and efficiently scans stacks and stacks of images of all sizes. It's great for scanner other things, too, like newspaper articles. The handy sleeve (included) makes it perfect for old images or things you're worried about ripping or tearing. It scans both front and back for the full effect. It auto adjusts the color for you which saves you infinite time. Overall, this scanner is amazing. I was able to do over 10,000 images in a weekend. Anywhere from small yearbook photos to 8x10's. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review, but my review is honest and unbiased.

This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. I received and installed the Epson FastFoto 640. It was a pretty quick and easy install. Easy to understand and it had me up and running in a fairly short amount of time, even on my older laptop that runs slow for everything. I have been scanning my physical photos like crazy and storing them on my hard drive, and moving them to my external storage with ease. The quality is fantastic, and the options for editing are amazing. I will most likely be offering my photo scanning services to every person I know that needs it in the near future. I love this little machine!

I have been scanning film for a very long time, and so I am used to using a scanner fairly regularly. I have grown used to the frankly tedious process of scanning endless strips of 35mm film using a flatbed scanner, but I had not even begun to touch the mountain of old photos that lurked in boxes in my attic. This scanner is the first product I have used which made me even attempt to scan them all in, and I am happy to say that not only did I start on the photos, I finished them. The FastFoto FF-640 is the best way that I have found to scan a large volume of photos or documents. There are other scanners out there that also use a top-feed to scan things, but they do not scan to JPEG (which is essential for photos…I do not want my photos saved as PDFs) and will not scan at nearly the resolution of this Epson scanner. 300 DPI should be sufficient for nearly anybody, but people who would prefer even more resolution (me) can scan at 600 DPI. The ability to scan up to 30 documents at a time is fantastic, as is the ability to scan the back of a photo or documents. A lot of my photos have dates or locations scribbled on the back, so this was a feature that I really appreciated. Personally, I liked the simplicity and lack of extraneous options on the scanner. Some may prefer more customization options, but I think this product has a very specific intended usage, and was designed to accomplish it as straightforwardly as possible. The files themselves are of impressively high quality considering the speed at which the scanner operates. I have used photo-scanning services before to batch-scan a large number of photos, and the quality of this scanner is indistinguishable from the quality of scans I got back from that service. The optional photo corrections are also quite nice, though I sometimes had a photo or two in a batch of thirty that needed a little personal care in some editing software to get a scan I was happy with. There are only a few shortcomings. The first should be a simple fix…there is not (to my knowledge) an option to apply corrections to only certain photos in a batch. Some photos I wanted scanned exactly as they were, and some I wanted corrected. I sorted these into different stacks, and scanned them separately. This did not cause any significant delays, but it did slow me down a bit. The second issue is the lack of a Mac version of the FastFoto software. There are other options, but the FastFoto software is actually quite good, and I would like the option to use it on my Mac as well as my Windows PC. Overall, I would give this scanner a hearty recommendation to anybody who wished to scan a large number of photos or documents. While it is a bit pricey compared to a flatbed scanner, time is money, and this scanner saves an incalculable amount of time. The only feasible alternative to a scanner like this one would be to use a batch-scanning service, which could cost as much anyway if you have enough photos, and does not give as much flexibility on how you would like them scanned, labeled, and stored. For its purpose, I think it is the best product currently on the market. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

The Epson FastFoto FF-640 is an incredibly fast scanner with simple but effective software. If you have lots of photos to scan, this is the scanner to buy. No more lifting the cover of a flatbed scanner, lining things up, doing a scan preview and then scanning. Simply place a stack of up to 30 photos in the scanner and hit scan. Setup of the device itself is incredibly simple. Plug in the power and USB cables and you’re done. The software can be downloaded as one package that includes a few apps and the drivers. It is all very straightforward. Thinking about folks who aren’t as computer savvy, I think they could easily navigate the install, setup and scan process without issue. The scanner is incredibly fast. We’re talking 1 second per photo! I can’t get over it. I chose 600ppi (vs. the default of 300ppi) and it still flew through them in no time. The first batch I did was 57 photos and it took 2 minutes, including time waiting for me to load the second stack. You can stack up to 30 photos at once and you can mix 4x6 and 5x7 photos. It also expands to accept 8x10 and even letter-sized documents. By default, the scanner is set to 300ppi and JPEG. The only real change you can make is to 600ppi - you can’t scan to any other format, like TIF or DNG. Changing from 300ppi to 600ppi increases the scan time of each image, but it is already so fast, this minimal increase makes no difference to me and I’d rather have the best quality I can get. It CAN do 1200ppi and it can save as TIF, but not with the FastFoto software. You can use the included Epson Scan software to access those options, but you lose some of the great options of the FastFoto software. Also, the Epson Scan software is not Retina-enabled so on my 5k iMac it looks fuzzy. It still works though! Speaking of the FastFoto software, it is incredibly simple to use. You can define a year, date and subject for the bath of photos. It will automatically create filenames using that information. It will also create a subfolder for each batch if desired. Lastly, it can apply some “fixes” to the images - mostly colour cast / white balance. It can save these as separate files, leaving your originals intact, and appending “_a” to the end of the file names. The downside to this is that if you want to delete the original or the _a version, you have to do this manually in Finder on the Mac - there is no built-in photo viewer with the Mac version of the software. With the Windows version, there is a photo viewer and it makes it easier to select and delete files. As it stands, I tried the auto correction and didn’t like it, so I will just be leaving it off. This is an expensive unit, make no mistake. However, I would NEVER consider doing more than a few photos using a flatbed scanner. You need something like this unit unless you have days and weeks to spend scanning each photo individually. Also, many places charge upwards of $1 per photo to scan a batch and often there is a minimum of a few hundreds. You can easily come out ahead using a unit like this, especially if you went splits with family members or friends. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. Overall, this is a fantastic product. It is incredibly fast and easy to use. I will be using it to digitize hundreds of photos and I look forward to it. To receive a perfect score, I would like to see the price come down a little bit, and I would like to see 1200ppi and TIF/DNG options with the FastFoto software.

I received this as a sample to try and I have to say WOW! Once set up, all you need to do is batch your photos. Load and push scan. That's it! There is also an option to see original photo and enhanced photo at the same time. I found this a really great feature. I am so excited to be able to finally have ALL my photos in one place and now be able to share them with friends and family. There aren't very detailed instructions for set up, but with a little common sense..it was really very simple. I am truly amazed at how easy and fast this was to use. I think this is a great scanner.

This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. Out of the box this scanner offered simple setup and started working in no time. I have a several thousand (conservatively) old photos to scan in and on the same afternoon that I opened and installed the FastPhoto, I was able to scan an entire box of my oldest photos with 99% success. The speed at which the photos were scanned took me by surprise as my old way of scanning photos was one by one using a flatbed scanner. After so many photos, the scanner gave me a notice to clean the wheel that feeds the photos, which is something Epson also made user friendly. I reported 99% accuracy as even though my photos varied in size, I had some very small ones that did not scan correctly. I got around this by taping them to note cards, but still would have liked even tiny photos to feed without error. Since I made such great progress getting through a huge portion of my collection in just one afternoon, I do wonder how useful this is as a purchase for long term use. If motivated, I could scan my entire collection in a week (probably less) and then have little use for the scanner afterward because I’m pretty much completely digital from the photography standpoint. The only other minor annoyance is that the resolution is limited to 600dpi. This is certainly adequate for most users that are viewing pictures on their computers, and excessive for sharing online, but I would like to go up to 1200dpi for my own use. My bottom line is that if you are looking for a tool to scan old photos quickly, easily and at a consistently high quality, this is definitely a great choice as I don’t know of anything better currently on the market.

This is an awesome scanner for the professional photographer or anyone that is wanting to digitally archive their photo collection. It is breeze to setup and can be assembled in a matter of minutes. The software is not included and has to be downloaded via Epson's website, but is very simple to do with the provided instructions. This is the fastest photo scanner I have ever seen and the quality it produces is spectacular. I can scan a stack of photos in a matter of minutes instead of hours. I literally scanned in 1,500 pictures in about 2.5 hours. It has the option for scanning at either 300 dpi or 600 dpi, but for most of my applications, the 300 dpi would be sufficient. You can set up the scanner to categorize the images sets as you scan them in, so you can separate your pictures into different sets. This will make your digital archives much more manageable once on your computer. You can adjust for a thicker type of photo or if you are using the carrier sheet for more fragile photos. I think the one thing I love about this is the scan button the top of the scanner. You can set it up to just load your photos and hit this button for bulk scanning. It can also can auto enhance your photos automatically and will save either the enhanced photo, or make two copies and save the original along with the enhanced. One other feature I cannot forget to tell you about is that it can scan the back of your photos simultaneously if there is writing on them. Here a few things to help improve your scanning experience: 1. Make sure to separate all your photos into the same size. If you do not, it may pull multiple photos through at the same time and either cause a paper jam or cause a badly scanned image that is distorted and need to be rescanned. 2. A slight bend in the photos will help to ensure only one gets pulled through at a time. 3. I found that scanning my photos at a higher resolution worked best for me. The lower resolution allows the photos to be scanned faster, but it also led to more paper jams. 4. You will also receive a notification on your computer to clean the rollers. I believe it showed up after I scanned 1,000 images, but I think it works better if cleaning them after 500 or so pictures. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. I have been so impressed with the quality of the scanner. It scans photos quickly and efficiently. It lets me edit the pictures. I have used other scanners and they have not been as easy to use. This scanner is both quick and very easy to use. It gives you options of how to scan your pictures. I have not had any difficulties and the quality of the scans are amazing. I would recommend this to anyone looking to digitize their pictures.

I was very excited to receive a free sample of the Epson FastFoto Scanner to review. As I unpacked the box, I noticed there were not a lot of parts to put together which is a major plus. The directions with diagrams helped me assemble the scanner within a few minutes. Connecting the scanner to my computer and downloading the software went quickly as well. It took no more than 15 minutes from the time I opened the box to begin scanning photos. I can`t tell you how much pleasure I received as I watched photos that have sat in boxes for years start to appear on my computer screen. Because the scanner works so quickly, I was able to upload 200 hundred photos in under 10 minutes. The only drawback I encountered was a line appearing on some of my scanned photos. This was caused by dust sticking to the rollers so you need to clean the rollers fairly often. Overall the Epson FastFoto Scanner is a major hit with me. I look forward to uploading thousands of my photos that are currently stored in boxes and then easily sharing them with family and friends.

Epson's new Fastfoto FF-640 is one amazing machine! For years, our family has stockpiled boxes of printed photographs, newspaper clippings, handbills, and various documents that were very memorable to us. Unfortunately, the boxes are where the majority of these items stayed - tucked away in the dark corner of a closet and unable to be enjoyed due to the trouble involved to unpack, sort, remove from envelopes, flip through, and eventually return the items to their permanent resting place. Over the years we tossed around the idea of using our flatbed scanner to digitize some of the pictures, however this has always been a very cumbersome and slow process that always ended with giving up on the idea and never revisiting it. While looking around on various technology websites, I recently came across an article about a new device that would change the way I viewed printed photographs forever - the Epson Fastfoto FF-640 high-speed photo scanning system. Upon initially reading the specs and description of the device, I admit I was very skeptical. Could this unit live up to its claims? Many times I had felt the pain of using a scanner to digitize a photo, and it never was an enjoyable process. A scanner is a scanner, right? And yet the Epson FastFoto FF-640 claims to scan 60 pages per minute? Surely this can't be. When the opportunity finally presented itself to try the unit out, I couldn't wait to put these claims to the test. Upon receiving the unit, I was amazed at the size of the box. I was initially expecting something similar to a full size flatbed scanner that I would have to find space for amongst all my other computer peripherals. Boy, was I wrong - the Epson Fastfoto FF-640 is SMALL! The entire unit is 11.8"x 8.7" x 8.1". Gone are the days of flashing lights, numerous buttons, cables, and complicated interfaces - the Fastfoto FF-640 is very basic. The simple black unit has three buttons (power, start, and stop) and a separation lever. Setup of the unit consists of snapping on the document feeder, plugging in the power cable, and connecting the USB cable to your computer - that's it! There are no complicated manuals or stacks of DVD's - just an illustrated quick start that shows how to connect the cables, and the URL to download the software file. I plugged in the cables as instructed, downloaded and launched the small software file, and turned on the scanner when prompted. My computer instantly recognized the unit, and I was prompted to set a few variables regarding my scanning preference such as the folder I would like to store the scans, choice of resolution (300/600dpi), if I would like to enable photo correction, and if I wanted to scan the back of the pictures. Back of the pictures?? I had no IDEA this unit would scan the back as well! I selected the storage folder, left the unit at the standard 300dpi, enabled photo correction, and set the one-pass front and rear scanning option. After the default options were set, I was ready to put the unit to the test. According to the documentation, all I had to do was stack the pictures in the feeder and press the blue button. Could it honestly be this simple? For my first test, I grabbed a box of various size family photographs, ranging from 2x2" to 8x10". I sorted the photographs by size, stacked 30 pictures into the feeder, and pressed the blue button. The Fastfoto FF-640 gently grabbed each individual photo and passed them straight through the unit at lightning speed - the entire stack of photos were complete in 30 seconds! I immediately had to check the folder on the computer to see if anything had actually happened since the process was so quick. In the selected folder, there were two copies of each picture due to the fact I had selected the photo correction option. One picture was the original untouched scan, and the second picture had the correction options applied. I really enjoy how Epson provides this function as it makes it really easy to compare and choose which version you would like to keep. Every photo in which I scanned came out unbelievable! Each scan looked identical to the printed photograph and the size of the stored photo files were very small in size. After seeing the first batch of photos process, I immediately became addicted to the speed and quality of the Fastfoto FF-640. I decided to push the limits of the Fastfoto FF-640 and give it a real challenge. When my great great grandmother passed away, I inherited an old box of family photographs and newspaper articles. The box had been tucked away for almost 15 years, and I was unsure of the condition of the contents. Most of the pictures in the box were from the 1800's and early 1900's. The pictures ranged in quality, with many of them yellowed and fading. Many of the pictures had handwritten notes in fading ink and pencil on the back from my relatives, and these notes were hardly legible. I decided to put dual sided one pass scanning option to the test. I loaded the document feeder was the delicate pictures and pressed the blue button. Each picture was gently pulled through the machine, and both the front and back sides of the photo were instantly saved in the folder on my computer. The quality of the handwriting was amazing! Not only did the Fastfoto FF-640 pick up the faint markings, but it also enhanced them so well that I could easily read notes that I couldn't even see on the original photograph. For example, one picture taken in the late 1800's appeared to have no notes on the rear side, but when I scanned it I discovered in the digital copy that my relative had actually written a small paragraph about the event! The photo enhancement options worked very well for the older photos, removing yellowing and rendering the images to be very crisp. I also tried several brittle newspaper articles that were tearing apart and yellowing with age. The Fastfoto FF-640 handled the articles very gently and each scan was completely legible. The photo corrected scanned image of the newspaper articles actually had the yellowing removed and the entire article appeared a brilliant white with no signs of aging. Although the unit comes with a carrier sheet for brittle or damaged photographs and articles, we never had to use the carrier due to the gentle nature of the Fastfoto FF-640. Although the unit is very fast, the roller feed assembly handles the articles in which you are scanning very gently and does not affect the quality of the original in any way. I was immediately hooked on using the Fastfoto FF-640 and started grabbing box after box of photos just to see what it could do. The entire process was so simple, and can literally be done by a child. We actually set the unit on the coffee table while watching football one Saturday afternoon and the children just kept filling the feeder tray with stacks of photographs so that we could digitize them and share with our family and friends. On many occasions we took the unit with us when visiting other family members and we couldn't wait to show them this new piece of technology! We encouraged them to go grab their boxes of photos just so we could show them just how good this unit was. To date, we've digitized thousands of photographs from various family members, and never once had a jam or issue with the unit. Although the unit states that they do not recommend scanning the thicker Polaroid photographs, we had no issue as we simply set the separator lever to the top position before initiating the scanning process. All of our Polaroid’s scanned without issue, as well as baseball cards, postcards, and even business cards. The downloaded software for the Epson Fastfoto FF-640 has a variety of added options that can be very beneficial. Some of these options include the ability to save and organize the pictures by category or folder, rename the files, embed metadata such as dates into the photo file, OCR recognition, and automatic saving of the scanned images to Google Drive or Dropbox. I have completely abandoned my flatbed scanner as I am using the Epson Fastfoto FF-640 for everything - you just cannot beat the simplicity, quality, speed, and functionality of the unit. I would consider the Epson Fastfoto FF-640 a bargain at $649.99 MSRP and highly recommend it to anyone. This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

This is a review for the Epson FastFoto 640 that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review. First off, in my professional work I process technical documents, drawings, field photographs, and many other paper-based data. I am also an amatuer photographer with a passion for the dark room. I am constantly using the office scanner to digitize my information and occasionally bring my photos to a digital format. I have been using the Epson FastFoto FF-640 for the past few days and have found it's scanning speed to be incredible. Even with the large business grade multi-function at work, the scanning experience is still arduous. I have found the FF-640 to be excellent at large document scanning such as multi-page manuals or catalogs, and the software seems designed with a consideration for bulk processing; even including a batch naming option. For scans of multi-page documents, I have found setting up a single scan for multiple pages to be extremely conveinient, especially when you enable OCR functions. Overall, for someone like myself working with documents of differing mediums, it is almost essential to bring it all into a digital form now a days and the Epson FF-640 is amazingly efficient at doing that. I had no trouble setting up the scan and feeding the documents right out of the box; it worked exactly as expected. As for the scanners true demographic function, the FF-640 became a specticle wherever I set it up (the office, my relatives house, my home). It scans so fast...that it's entertaining to watch; my wife literally thought it was just spitting the picture right back out. Then I showed her that not only was it scanning the pictures (in a perfectly respectable resolution by the way)...but it was also scanning her notes from the back of the photo in a single pass. There isn't a single photograph in our home not in digital form now. Being a film photographer who develops in house, I had concerns about the feeding mechanism damaging some of my less than perfect cuts. I also had a large amount of photographs passed on to me that are quite aged. The feeder handled each and every photo perfectly and never jammed. For a photographer (even a mid sized photo studio) I have nothing but glowing review of the FastFoto FF-640, it is simply the best and most conveinient photo scanner I have encountered. The only aspect I see preventing the average amatuer photographer/heavy document digitizer from taking the plunge on this one without any question is unfortunately the price. While the FF-640s performance and feature offering is a cut above the rest, the price pushes it into an almost "pro-sumer" category of business-grade devices where a whole new range of competing products enter the picture. Most people with photos needing digital conversion would be better served to simply pay the one time copy house charges to have the work done for them.