Epson FastFoto FF-680W

The Epson FastFoto FF-680W is a sheet-feed desktop scanner that excels at scanning stacks of snapshots while doing a credible job at document scanning.

-- As reviewed by PCMag
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Product details

  • World’s Fastest Personal Photo Scanner (1) — scan thousands of photos as fast as 1 photo per second at 300 dpi (2); batch-scan up to 36 photos at a time
  • Preserve Your Priceless Photos — restore, organize, protect and share photos; scan Polaroid photos, panoramas, postcards and photos up to 8" x 10"
  • Share Stories for Future Generations — use the Epson FastFoto app (3) to add voice and text over your photos or create slideshows, right from your smartphone
  • Perfect Picture Imaging System — bring new life to old photos with auto enhancement, color restoration, red-eye reduction, de-skew, crop and rotate
  • Single-step Technology — capture both the image and any handwritten notes on the back of a photo in a single scan
  • Flexible Scanning — offers a variety of format options for easy sharing (300 dpi), archiving (600 dpi TIFF) and enlarging (1200 dpi (4)); handles multiple sizes in one batch; mobile (up to 600 dpi JPEG)
  • Powerful Document Scanning — includes Epson ScanSmart software with optical character recognition (OCR), which converts scanned images into readable text; scan documents up to 240"; scan speeds up to 45 ppm/90 ipm (5)

PROS

+ Quickly scans stacks of photo prints.
+ Decent as a document scanner.
+ Scans to searchable PDF.
+ Solid OCR performance.

CONS

- Somewhat pricey.
- Slower at photo scanning than its predecessor.

Expert reviews and ratings

By PCMag on August 31, 2018
The Epson FastFoto FF-680W is a sheet-feed desktop scanner that excels at scanning stacks of snapshots while doing a credible job at document scanning.
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