Marin County - Photo Scanning to Digital Services

You have two options when it comes to the digitization of your photographs. You can invest in a photo scanner and digitize the photographs yourself, or you can hire a company like Digital Roots Studio do do the scanning to digital for you.

No, you don’t need to organize your photographs prior to dropping off. We receive photographs from our clients various ways. Some clients will organize the photographs prior to scanning in folders by subject and/or year. We ask that all photographs be in groupings of no less than 10 photos per grouping.

We scan photographs at 300ppi or 600ppi to digital JPEG format. If you want your photographs scanned at a higher resolution then please give us a call to talk about your scanning project.

Yes, we can scan your family photo albums and photo scrapbooks. Additional fees may be applied b/c of special handling as well as album access fee’s, so please reach out to speak about your scanning project prior to dropping off.

The digital images can be given back to you on a USB empty drive that you supply, you can buy a drive from us, DVD-ROM or we can do a web upload for an additional fee. (not a cloud storage. Download only available for one month before auto deletion.

Its not possible to know without counting every photography you want to have scanned. But one thing you can do to get a rough estimate, is to stack the photos and measure the stack. About one inch of photos is 100-110 photos. Obviously this fluctuates based on the thickness of the physical photograph, but it will give you a ballpark idea.