I would have a hard time tossing the scanned slides also - but understand your space limitations. I have an Epson flatbed V200 scanner that I scan slides with. LOVE IT! Love it even more with my new computer that runs so much faster (didn't have any trouble with it working on the new Windows 7 OS either) My Epson is no longer available, but the V500 is pretty much the same unit. I looked up both the Epson and the Cano Scan on Amazon. Looks like both will scan 4 slides at once. I have done large batches (hundreds - not thousands though). It take a while, but if you leave a stack, and just swap them out while you are on the computer, you can get a lot done! I like reading the reviews on Amazon - gives great reviews from people that have actually used the unit. Both the Epson and the Canon have lots of reviews. Price is very similar. I like the Epson flat bed personally. You can scan documents or photos. I find it super handy just to copy a paper when needed. It is NOT an all in one. Just a flat bed scanner. But if I need a copy of a paper, I can just hit "copy" and it will scan and send it to my printer. I scan at 600dpi - which is plenty. Unless you are going to print somthing wall size, you don't need to use the super high settings. It will just make a huge file and take a long time to scan. Make sure you have a couple back up sources for you scans if you are going to dispose of the slides. DVD's can go bad - hard drive fail... I would use at least 2 different backup methods. Here is a scan from a slide from the late 40's or early '50's. Slide had dust and a few scratches.....

Hi everyone, thanks for your info. DA, I only use a BW alternative when the copy needs to have a professional appearance, the item being scanned is on colored paper; i.e. yellow or pink receipts, or if I have advanced notice that the document will be duplicated. The document was to be duplicated and that is why I set it to black and white. Have you tried saving the scan as a rich text? Or better yet a HTML file? No I am not sure how to do that. I think it is automatically set up but without looking I am not sure. I will have to try it out again and see about that. What does setting it to rich text or HTML file do? Urlee, I usually save as a file. Then send as an attachment. I use grayscale opposed to black & white. I did save it as a file, right clicked and sent it as an attachment to my email. I am thinking that it didn't scan right and the preview is to small for me to actually make it out. Owbist, It was not a colored document nor was it a photo as stayed above. It was a very important document that I was trying to send back to a company. They sent it to me I was to sign it and return it back to them. I had done it many times before and no one had said it was fuzzy until this last time. That's what made me think that maybe I had changed a setting when working with something else and I was trying to figure out how to change it back. Bob, I can't see the logic in saving a B&W document as a BMP file. I prefer to scan in either gray scale or picture and saving in JPG, and if its going to be edited then I'll OCR to text. "LOL" with me logic has nothing to do with it, I just used what was there without fully understanding it all. How do you OCR to text? I see OCR but am not sure what it does. For everyone to know I did a project for my sister using pictures of her deceased husband and arranging them in a certain order. He was retired military and I wanted to do something very special for her. It all turned out nicely and she was very happy with it. It was after I did the project that the text became fuzzy and that is why I am thinking I must have changed the settings because I was doing the project and scanning the pictures and saving it to my scans file & now I can't seem to figure out how to get it back like it was. I was trying to email it to her and making changes as I went and finally had to just print it out and take it to her when I went to the service. Maybe I should ask what the standard settings should be when doing normal text that you want to email to someone, that wants to print it out on their end. I don't think it is the scanner nor the printer, I think it is something that I changed. I don't know what the normal settings should be are they the same with all scanners? Did I just make any sense here with my explanation? "Smiles" Please bare with me for the next couple of days, if I don't get back to you right away. I have to have dental surgery later this morning. If you wouldn't mind I would like for someone to bump this up every so often, so that I don't lose this post. I want to read your responses and get back to you as soon as possible. Hopefully in a couple of days. Thanks to everyone who posted to my thread here. I hope I didn't miss answering anyone. thirdfrt!!!

Practice will let you decide as you start scanning. Try a few of your own photos so you have a basic idea before you attend the shindig. Use the auto scan and see what it does. You have an upscale scanner so output should e great. If photos are small, worn, scratched or torn then I select a higher resolution or increase the size so I can work on it later. I rarely use other scanner settings, relying on my photo editing software to do these things. I recently scanned a 1968 passport black and white photo of my wife at 600% of the original size, cleaned it up and printed it as an 8 x 10 and it came out quite good IMHO. DPI. What do you intend to do with the scans? I ask because a computer reads 72 DPI but if you intend to print then that is useless and will show jaggies so if I intend to print I select 300 DPI. Again, play a little and make your choices.

Yep, what Linda C said. As they say, garbage in garbage out. There is some really expensive software out there that "might" do the job. Other than that, the ONLY way to do it is incrementally: You most likely have a 72 dpi jpg from the web, let's say pixel dimensions are 163W x 139H or 2.264 inches x 1.931 inches. First, research the web again to see if you can find the same image with larger pixel dimensions. If that's a no go or if you find something but it still needs to be larger and you are using Photoshop follow these directions: Go to Image>Image Size Under the area labeled "Document Size" in the pop up window change the "Width" and "Height" to "percent" instead of "inches". Change the percentage from 100 to 110 in each direction. DO NOT CHANGE THE RESOLUTION YET. Be sure to have the "Constrain Proportions" and "Resample Image" radio boxes checked. The latter option should be set at "Bicubic". Repeat the 110% upsizing until just before the image takes on a nasty pixelated haze and looks distorted. After doing this 5 times in our example, the pixel dimensions will be 263W x 224H or 3.653 inches x 3.111 inches at 72 dpi. If you wish to use the image for printing purposes, go to Image>Image Size. At the bottom of the pop up window, uncheck the "Resample Image" radio button and change the "Resolution" field to 300 pixels per inch. When you do this, the width and height inches field will change automatically. The size related in those fields are the highest you can go without the nasty pixelated distortion for printing purposes. You can try some of the blurring filters, but that really won't get you where you want to go. HTH