Lay them all out in a straight line. Attach camera to rc car. Drive car past pics. Basically Google streets but for your pics XD /s
Lots of great suggestions here though.
Is OK GO coming out with a new video?
Cheapest: NAPS2 and your flatbed scanner, or your phone camera
Easiest: See above
Quickest: NAPS2 and a document scanner
Best: A professional digitizing service
Cheap. Fast. Reliable. Pick two.
The easiest, quickest, and best way I found to scan thousands of photos was to purchase an Epson FastFoto scanner. You stick a whole stack of photos into it, it scans them one after the other amazingly quick, then you stick another stack in and keep going. I did this with boxes of old photos of every size, some of which I literally had to cut out of photo albums. There are options for scan quality and resolution. It helps tremendously to have your photos organized for how you’d like to store them, so for instance have your 1989 Grand Canyon photos together so that they can be named and numbered as they are scanned. It will even scan the back of the photos if you have writings or labels you want to preserve. This might not be the cheapest option, but its fits your other criteria perfectly.
If they’re in good condition, you can get scanners with document feeders and software that aligns the scanned photo. No idea on the cost though.
You can scan them yourself, and lots of scanner software lets you scan multiple photos at a time and then separate them in the software. However you do it is going to take time though.
If you aren’t concerned about the paper originals getting wrecked you could use an automatic document feeder and scan up to like 50 at a time.
If you care more for quality then use the flatbed scanner on a printer or a dedicated document scanner. Some scanner apps on Linux let you scan multiple flatbed images, which is just a timer that waits a certain number of seconds before starting another scan. That should make things a little quicker, but most ways will have you spend hours to scan 1000 documents.
Check around your local walmart/target/walgreens etc, that have those photo labs/booths. Some have proper bulk photo scanners publicly available, and will (or you can) pass your photos through one and spit out a CD for fairly cheap (sub-$10 last I checked, but years ago).
I’ve used Google photo scan to digitize quite a lot of photos. Definitely not the quickest but it’s very easy and very cheap (free) and especially useful if you intend to use Google photos.
You’ll probably have to scan them in yourself. Get a scanner and start scanning. Otherwise you’ll have to pay someone else to do exactly that, which will cost more, but might be faster depending on how much time you’re willing to invest.
Woah thousands? I guess maybe see if you can get your hands on a large flatbed file scanner (hit up some thrift stores) and just scan a couple at a time and crop later
Go to a library, some have scanners with feeders that will scan to a flash drive.
I read that as digest and thought we were getting another no poop for three days post.