I bought a flat bed scanner and while the quality was good it was very slow. Since then I have been using Google PhotoScan app on my iPhone.

Do you know what type quality you can print from with the scan apps - there’s likely some small subset they’d I’d like to be able to print/frame it seems like a good option if I just wanted to keep them electronically though

>Best way to digitize old photographs

Lovingly and carefully on a flatbed scanner.

All kinds of people are giving away the printer/flatbed combos once they fall into disuse, lots of times because the ink is too expensive. Plenty of them will still scan when the ink is empty, even if they can't be used as an office copier any more.

You can't really say for sure every time, but you have to figure that each unique photo took one or more people way more time in its creation and preservation so far compared to the insignificant amount of time it would take to scan it.