One of my favorite things to give is a photo gift. It may be a photo book from a trip or a coffee mug with pictures of all the grandkids or a Christmas ornament of the newlywed couple. There is just something extra special about giving a gift with a precious photo on it. 

Recently I reviewed one of my favorite photo scanning tools, the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner. I have been using my Flip-Pal both personally and professionally for over 5 years. Versatile and powerful, the Flip-Pal allows me a flexibility that my larger scanners just can’t give from scanning loose photos to photos stuck in old albums to large documents and images.

When was the last time you were visiting a relative and found a really special family photo and wished you could make a digital copy right on the spot? But instead you has to settle for snapping a sub-par picture with your phone.

Perhaps you are your family’s historian and you have come across a previously unseen photo of your great-great grandfather Joe in a library’s collection. You can’t take the photo to have it scanned so instead you have settle for a photo copy.

You have an old photo album from your Great Aunt Martha that you want to scan, but the pages are simply too fragile to put on a traditional scanner.