Epson FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-Speed Photo and Document Scanning System, Black
$599.99
Price: $219.00 - $599.99
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Preserve what’s priceless with the Epson® FastFoto FF-680W — the World’s Fastest Personal Photo Scanner (1). Scan thousands of photos — as fast as 1 photo per second (2). Easily restore, save, organize and share photos, postcards, panoramas, documents and more. The convenient mobile app (3) enables you to capture the voice of loved ones and create slideshows, so you can easily share stories about your photos right from your smartphone, from a firsthand perspective, for generations to come. Plus, FastFoto brings old photos to life with auto enhancement, color restoration and more. Offering the ultimate in versatility, it includes a variety of format options for quick sharing, archiving and enlargements 1. As compared to other personal/consumer photo scanners, generally defined as photo scanners priced under $1,000 USD (MSRP). 2. Based on average speed from start of scan to end of feeding, scanning thirty-six 4″ x 6″ photos at 300 dpi in landscape orientation. Results may vary based on processor speed, memory and operating system of the connected computer. 3. Requires Epson FastFoto app download (data usage fees may apply), compatible mobile device and FastFoto FF-680W (sold separately). 4. Interpolated resolution is the doubling of the optical resolution using a software algorithm to increase dpi. 5. Based on letter-sized scans at 300 dpi in Black-and-White, Grayscale or Color Mode, using the USB interface. 6. Internet connection and active Dropbox or Google Drive account required. 7. Wirelessly scan to the cloud, PCs or Mac® with Epson FastFoto software and Epson ScanSmart software, installed on the connected Windows® PC or Mac; wirelessly scan to smartphones or tablets (Android™/iOS® devices) via the Epson FastFoto app. Internet connection required. 8. Check for convenient and reasonable recycling options with us 9. SmartWay is an innovative partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that reduces greenhouse gases and other air pollutants and improves fuel efficiency.
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)
Easy Auto-upload and Backup — instantly share your memories as you scan via Dropbox and Google Drive(6)
Easy to Connect — includes both USB and wireless connectivity (7) for flexible placement; easy Wi-Fi setup with the Epson FastFoto app
SafeTouch Technology — for worry-free scanning of delicate photos; carrier sheet included, plus microfiber cloth to lightly dust photos
Customers say
Customers find the scanner easy to use and fast. It scans both sides of photos and documents at a high quality. The user interface is simple and easy to understand. The scanning process is fast and efficient. Overall, customers are satisfied with the scanner’s performance and quality. However, some have mixed opinions on value for money, software quality, and photo quality.
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9 reviews for Epson FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-Speed Photo and Document Scanning System, Black
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Joseph Alexander –
Works Flawlessly — By Far the Best Scanner I’ve Ever Used
This scanner completely lives up to its billing as “the world’s fastest personal photo scanner.” I had thousands of old photos that, because we’re moving, I wanted to store electronically while throwing out the paper copies. After doing a fair amount of research, I landed on the Epson FastFoto 680W. It’s pricier than some other scanners but well worth it. In two days, I scanned more than 4,000 photos without a hitch — the scanner worked flawlessly across all different sizes of photos. It even enhanced the quality of the photos as I scanned them. One caveat: keep in mind that the super-fast scans (no more than a second per photo) produce photos that are 300 dots per inch; if you want to scan at a higher dpi, the scanner is a lot slower. As a result, I decided to keep copies of a handful of very special photos, while still being content to keep only digital versions of at least 95% of them. After scanning several thousand photos, I switched to document mode to scan hundreds of paper files that I also wanted to get rid of and it was even faster than it was for the photos because it scans even two-sided documents in no more than a second. My days of paper copies are finally over. In fact, I’m keeping the scanner on my desk so that every time I get a document that I want to save, I instantly scan it and then discard the hard copy of the document. Overall, this is one of the best products I’ve ever purchased and definitely the best scanner I’ve ever used.Unfortunately, after I wrote that review, and for no apparent reason, the scanner suddenly stopped working with my computer (a fairly new iMac). The computer simply stopped recognizing the scanner and nothing could get it to work, even after I uninstalled and then tried to reinstall the software several times. The software won’t re-install unless the computer recognizes the scanner, which it won’t. And the Epson customer support people were no help at all. So, while this is a magnificent piece of hardware, the software seems like it’s still a work in progress.I’m updating my review to increase it to five stars. After the computer suddenly stopped recognizing the scanner, I finally tried replacing the cable connecting the scanner to the computer. Presto, the computer recognized the scanner again. So it wasn’t the scanner that went bad; it was the cable that I was using. The scanner truly is phenomenal.
R. Andelfinger –
Outstanding scanner, high-quality imaging that’s fast and easy to use!
I ordered this Epson scanner to replace a Canon version that my Windows 11 system wouldn’t recognize over USB. I initially had problems installing the software on one of my laptops (both laptops are Dell but for some reason one had issues with the software). Epson tech support helped me overcome the installation issues via email in just a couple of days and the scanner has worked perfectly ever since. The enhancement features of the software are especially nice, including image straightening and color/brightness correction, both of which work flawlessly. The scanner also automatically scans both sides of each photo, so if you have handwritten notes on the reverse side you’ll have a record of those as well with no further effort. The user interface is simple and easy to understand and the scanning quality is excellent. Finally, the scanner is FAST, it takes only about 3 seconds per photo and it will autofeed up to 30 or so photos. If you are digitizing family albums of snapshots as I am, I can highly recommend this scanner as it will make short work of your scanning task!
Rene Mendez –
Excellent scanner
Very pleased with the quality and performance of the FF-680W scanner. It’s fast, organizes photos by folders for easy sorting, has great resolution and the software is easy to use. Over 2,000 photo prints of various sizes scanned so far with no issues. Plus postcards, various documents. For my use it was well worth the money.
Amazon Customer –
Super fast! The auto enhance feature is AMAZING!
I decided to digitize my family photos for my parents and siblings for Christmas.At first, I was using a regular printer flatbed scanner but the quality of the scan was really poor. I tried putting pictures through the auto feed on it and they would stretch the picture and twist them to an angle as it fed them through. It was slow and I had to crop every single picture. It took FOREVER!I started researching scanners and found this one. It seemed like a good one so I bought it.The original scanner I was using was scanning the pics at 200 dpi. I figured out that I could have increased it to 300 dpi but that was it.This scanner has a minimum of 300 dpi for photos and goes up to 1200 dpi. The pictures are so much better quality and it’s so fast I was able to redo all the ones I had previously scanned in no time. Best of all, I didn’t have to crop every single one!I have some pictures that were really poor quality. The auto enhance feature on this scanner helps a lot. I’m able to save really dark pictures and it’ll lighten them up to where you can actually see who is in them!I will say that it doesn’t like Polaroids. It thinks they are multiple pictures. Luckily I only have a few of these. I just put them in the sleave that’s included for delicate pictures and they go through just fine. I do have to crop these photos though. This sleave works great for tiny pictures as well.I was able to scan documents as well. You do have to download the Epson ScanSmart app for this. It took forever to figure this out as it isn’t clear in the user manual. I thought you could just select ScanSmart in the Fast Photo app but it still scanned it as a jpg file. You have to actually download the ScanSmart app to scan a PDF or Word document. It has several other formats as well.The ScanSmart app allows you to crop and straighten pages. This is so helpful for my family history pages. Sometimes they were slanted on the page because they’d been photocopied so many times. One included an inch or so of the next page, like they’d been copied from a book. I was able to crop this out and straighten the page before putting in it Word or PDF format. And if the pages are out of order you can drag them in order before putting them in whatever format you choose. Or if one was accidentally upside down you could correct this as well before selecting your format.I love the duplex scanning feature for documents as well. It’s so nice that it doesn’t have to flip pages over like the regular printer scanners do. It just smoothly scans. And it’s FAST!I’m scanning my family history that was mostly typed on typewriters. It’s cool that I can transform these into Word or PDF documents. The Word documents allow for editing which is nice because they are more legible and you can correct spelling and grammar while you’re at it. It does require a lot of editing though because the auto character recognition doesn’t always translate correctly. Not the fault of the technology but because these documents have been photocopied multiple times and sometimes c’s look like o’s, etc. Still, it’s all worth the time to digitize these important memories.This is worth the money for sure. I’m so happy I bought it!
WasabiK –
This is one of the few scanners that has a auto feed to scan stacks of photos at a time. Much faster than using a flatbed scanner. Therefore I bit the bullet and bought this. Turns out it’s worth every penny!- Scans BOTH SIDES of photos at the same time. If there are notes on the backs of the photos, they will be scanned.- The quality is excellent. I scanned the same set of photos on my HP all-in-one printer/scanner and this scanner. This scanner captures much more detail from the photos especially the shadow areas.- Files can be saved in lossless .tif format (or lossy .jpg format)- FastFoto app can apply auto adjustments to pictures (colour, brightness, and redeye), and save these adjustments in a SEPARATE file, preserving the original scan in case you want to edit it later using more “advanced” apps like Photoshop.- Scanner itself is compact and folds up for storage. It’s sitting on my mom’s desk right now, and it takes up less than half the space than the flatbed scanner she had.- It is FAST. Takes a few seconds to scan each photo at 600dpi. (there are also 300dpi and 1200dpi options)- Files are automatically put into folders and numbered. When adding more files to the same folder, the numbering continues from the last picture.- File numbering corresponds to the order you load the photos (with the front photo being #0001). It actually scans them in reverse order but the file numbering will be correct after scanning. Helps with my OCD making sure that photos are in the order taken.- Can scan documents as well as pictures.I did notice some etching of glossy photos like some reviewers mentioned. The etching results in some streaks in the scans, and those get blown up by some AI photo editing tools. I would say this is a minor annoyance because the image quality is so much better than flatbed, and it’s so much faster to scan hundreds of photos. I don’t plan to keep the originals and I will look into removing the streaks in the editing workflow.
Alaniz –
Lo único que le falto es digitalizar credenciales !!
Michael Stone –
Great unit – I looked at heaps of reviews and thy were accurate – I have copied 2500 photos so far and it hasnt missed a beat. I have had a little difficulty getting the documents to scan as described but I bought it primarily for photographs
S Rogers –
I bought this scanner to clear up some storage bins of photographs after my mom passed away, and it has been worth every penny. I’m SO glad I invested in this because it has allowed me to save a HUGE amount of photographs from years and years ago, preserving precious memories that might have otherwise been lost.The picture quality is outstanding, capturing even the smallest details in both photos and documents. It’s incredibly easy to use, making the scanning process quick and efficient. I’ve also started scanning my kids’ drawings, so I can save them forever too.The accuracy of the scans is almost perfect, with just the occasional minor adjustment needed. Overall, I am very happy with this purchase. If you have a lot of photos or documents to digitize, this scanner is a fantastic choice. Highly recommend!
Arch –
Fast and easy to use. Wifi ready is great.Set up is simple.