[runjake]

I bought a Canon 300 LiDE flatbed scanner and I think I used Image Capture.app in macOS.

Why? I paid ~$70 for the scanner, which is slightly less than what it would've cost to have Walgreen's or somebody do it. Also, the Canon scanner the local Walgreen's stores used was an older Canon model that had significantly less resolution.

Once I got used to the software (~20 mins), I scanned several hundreds photos over the course of a couple hours.

You can scan a laminated photo album page, and if you keep light from leaking in, it's great.

In the beginning, I was trying to find the highest DPI scanner I could, but then read a review on the LiDE 300 on Wirecutter or something, where they mentioned that those old printed photos are far lower resolution that you'd think and that the LiDE 300 would exceed that. Damned if they weren't right.