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In my experience the worst part of digitizing photos is the time it takes to load the scanner.

I have about 300 slides I'd like to digitize and on something like an Epson v550 you can only load 4 slides at a time and scanning each slide takes about 3 minutes each. Negative strips can be even worse if you try and manually select each frame. Retouching is easy in comparison as Lightroom auto functions do pretty good on most photos.

If you can design a loading & scanning system that can process as fast as you can audit/retouch photos it'll make the process a lot easier. Even automating the loadin and letting it run overnight would be nice.

This is just for normal people photos. If you're a photographer you're going to scrutinize each photo even more and you'll either require a lot more time to retouch or much better software & hardware for scanning to get the color accuracy, sharpness & automatic scratch/dust removal.