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Specialties
ScanCafe specializes in high quality, but affordable 35 mm slide scanning, 35 mm negative scanning, photo and photo album scanning services as well as movie film and VHS transfers to DVD. With more than 100 million images scanned, 150,000 orders and a price starting at $ 0.22 an image at 3000dpi, ScanCafe is not only the largest Scanning Service in the world, but also offers the best value.
Special formats and professional options are available. Every media is manually scanned and gets 3 minutes of manual retouching. For severely damaged photos, digital restoration services are also available. The latest technology in film processing is combined with manual processes to reduce/remove dust, scratches and recover colors. For faster turnaround time, we offer USA Express service as well.
History
Established in 2006.
Many years ago, one of our co-founders, Laurent, had to travel back to Switzerland to attend the funeral of his grandfather. Every family seems to have a family archivist, and among his many gifts, Laurent’s grandfather was an enthusiastic photographer.
As the engineer in the family, Laurent volunteered to scan in all those old photographs so that they could be shared with the extended family, who are scattered all over the world. Many of these photos had been forgotten altogether, and Laurent thought it would be a great tribute to his grandfather to make sure the next generation had these memories easily available.
For the next 6 weekends, Laurent had to wrestle with scanning, choosing resolutions, re-scanning, cropping, rotating, color correction, and all the other things that people who truly care about preserving memories do. It turns out that he had 28,000 more to go! (We like to joke that it was at this point that he tore out all his hair).
Meet the Business Owner
Laurent M.
Business Owner
Laurent is a serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience developing software and automation technology. He has built global engineering teams spanning India, the USA and Europe, and developed technology partnerships with IBM, HP, and AT&T. Laurent founded CD World to develop the first kiosk-based electronic music distribution infrastructure, authored the first pan-European digital rights management applications, and was a key contributor to IBM’s Tiger Shark supercomputer streaming platform. Before founding ScanCafe, he applied his expertise to proteomics at Syrrx, later acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Laurent has a Masters in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Father of two, he speaks four languages and would like to live out his days windsurfing or heliboarding. Also, he is the one around the office to settle all arguments about f-stops.