I fondly remember my first scanner, one I purchased about 30 years ago*; it was big, it was a flatbed (as opposed to a handheld one), it was slow but it did something magical. Capture documents ...

Another approach is using a 3D scanner to capture real-world objects and turn them into ready-to-print files. The first 3D ...

Not willing to dedicate thousands of dollars or hours to this project, I decided to pickup a photo scanner from Amazon in the hopes that it would be more effective. And my goodness, I was right.