Best if you have time
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Do it yourself
Extremely rewarding if you have the time & patience — and a lot more than pressing scan.
- Choose and set up the scanner
- Sort and rescan every batch
- Name and back up the files
- Your time, on your schedule
Best if you need it done right
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Hire a local Squirrel
A Squirrel comes to you, scans everything, and delivers it to your drive or phone — no dining-table scanning station.
- Work with your neighbor, in person
- Your photos never leave your city
- 600 DPI archival scans, front & back
- Original scans preserved untouched
- Enhanced versions: color, faces, fading
- Dated and tagged with names and events
- Arrives organized in Google or Apple Photos
- Originals returned in a fireproof case
- Clean digital files in about 48 hours
- We work until you're happy
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Best if you like waiting
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Ship them away
Your irreplaceable items, boxed and shipped to a warehouse 100s of miles away.
- Photos leave your city for weeks
- Six weeks gone, a USB stick back
- If something's wrong, you're a ticket
- No refund once processed