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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Mortimer452 on 2025-01-28 18:50:20+00:00.

So, in my barn/workshop I have a guesstimate of 5,000-10,000 photos from me & my family’s childhood. These have been collected over the past decade or so from family members passing away. 50ish years worth of photos ranging from 1950-2000 or so.

The vast majority are typical 4x6 prints still inside the 1-hour photo envelopes, most have the negatives in there as well. There’s also maybe a dozen or so large, well-organized 3-ring photo albums. For those, some I might just pull the photos out, others have captions and such written underneath each picture, so I might try to just setup a little photo booth and take a high-quality photo of each page.

I think there might also be a couple boxes of 35mm slides.

I’ve heard good things about the Epson FastFoto for scanning, is this still a pretty good option?

Also looking for advice on a photo management solution. Ideally I’d like something 100% self-hosted that can do object and face recognition and tag the photos for future searching. I give it a pile of photos, it tags objects like car/dog/bike/baby and gives me a list of detected faces, which I can assign names to, and then easily pull up all photos of that person.

I’ve used PhotoPrism for this in the past and it’s decent, but wonder if there’s anything better?