Originally Posted by
seacue
I concluded that an autofeed slide scanner wouldn't save as much time as one might expect. While the scanning might be considerably faster, there would still be the "overhead" of selecting the slides to scan, naming each file containing an image, and arranging the files in named folders / directories. This "administrative" work took much of my time, yet was vital to making it possible to find the desired scanned images in the future. Some of it could be done while the next batch of four slides was being scanned.
I didn't bother with selecting slides, I just loaded them and set it off. Arranging them was easy - each box is numbered, and the software saves them all into a directory of my choice with a prefix and starting number for the file name also of my choice. So box 52 went into folder S52, and the file names were all prefixed S52.