Our Story
It started with a bag of photos.
Scan My Memories began the way a lot of photo projects do: with a family, a move, and a lifetime of memories nobody had looked at in years.
When my parents decided to downsize, I helped clean out their house. Tucked away, I found a bag stuffed with photographs: years of birthdays, holidays, and faces I hadn't seen in decades.
Some had water damage. Most had survived. All of them were one leaky basement or one more move away from being lost for good.
When I saw those photos, I knew I had to save them. I just didn't know how hard that would be.
What I tried first
Every option fell short.
Phone scanning apps
I tested a few. Every photo was a fight with glare, shadows, and crooked angles, and the results weren't something I'd want to keep forever.
Scanning services
Mail-in services charge by the photo. For a whole bag of memories, the quotes added up fast.
Doing it myself
Scanning one photo at a time was far too slow, and the scanners built for large photo collections are expensive.
So I did the research and invested in a professional-grade photo scanner built for prints. I scanned the whole bag, water-damaged survivors and all, and for the first time in years our family could actually see those photos again.
When I finished, I kept thinking: there must be so many people like me, with a bag, a box, or an attic full of photos and no good way to save them.
That's why I started Scan My Memories.
Why flat-rate pricing
What scanning 1,000 photos costs
I built Scan My Memories around the price I wished I'd found: one flat rate, with shipping both ways and a USB flash drive included. Here's how it compares with two U.S. mail-in services I looked at, even at their sale prices.
Competitor prices are taken from their public websites on October 1, 2026, for scanning 1,000 loose photos, and may have changed since. Optional extras such as enhancement are not included.
My promise to you
I treat your photos like they're my family's.
Scanned in-house
Your photos never get shipped overseas or handed to outside contractors.
Yours, and only yours
We never sell or share your photos, or use them for marketing or AI training without your written consent.
Everything comes home
Your originals come back to you with a USB flash drive of 600 DPI JPEG scans.
Thank you for trusting me with your memories. I know exactly what they mean to you.The founder, Scan My Memories
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