Epson's FastFoto scanning system on sale for $500 organizes all your personal photos and docs

The FastFoto Is Nice, but it's pricey. Including wireless is cool for documents, but in my experience you want it close to your device's [PC, laptop etc.] display so you can check photos as you go, since dust etc. can easily get stuck to the scan head glass, causing every scan thereafter to have streaks. And if you have it close by, USB works fine & is faster & more trouble free. You're also paying extra for a sheet fed scanner because it's advertised and sold for photos. The main difference between the FastFoto & [sometimes Much] cheaper Epson sheet fed scanners is the software drivers. Those cheaper scanners are tuned for typical office docs, so the software sharpens the image and biases every scan towards black & white -- If you look at the histogram of a scanned photo, there's little in the mid ranges, with all the peaks at either end. This is great for OCR, where the FastFoto is weak because it's drivers Are balanced for photos. You can compensate by adjusting the driver settings of cheaper Epson sheet fed scanners, and I've found that over 90% of the time that works fine -- the only problems I've had were with overexposed photos. I say that it's the drivers that are the issue because using WIA drivers you get normal results, without the light/dark bias, but those WIA drivers are unusable for cranking out high volumes of scans because they won't interface with the scanners feed or auto size detection. So, if you're happy paying the price, there's nothing at all wrong with Epson's FastFoto scanner. If you want to save some cash, get a regular sheet fed scanner & use that -- I paid a bit over $200 for the DS-410, which I've used for 2k photos so far, and it's worked just fine. It isn't as fast as the FastFoto, but since I've found it necessary to clean the dust from each photo before scanning, I haven't come close to using the speed this cheaper scanner offers.