Photo Album Scanning

Heirloom works with nearly all photo album styles, including slip-in sleeves, adhesive “magnetic” albums, and bound photo books. You don’t need to disassemble anything—albums can be sent exactly as they are.

Photo album scanning is priced by album size, which reflects how many photos the album contains. This approach is more accurate than counting individual prints and ensures fair pricing for all sizes of albums.

For scanning, Heirloom carefully temporarily removes the protective plastic or overlay covering each photo. After scanning, the plastic is replaced as neatly as possible so your original album can be safely returned in its original form.

Each photo in your album is scanned as its own 600 DPI JPG image, capturing fine detail and clarity. This resolution creates high-quality digital files that are easy to view, store, search, and share.

Each photo album is delivered as one digital folder per album, with every photo saved as a separate image inside that folder. This keeps your albums organized digitally the same way they were physically.

Album scanning focuses on capturing each individual photo, not the full page layout. If preserving the exact arrangement of photos, page design, or handwritten notes is important, Heirloom recommends the Scrapbook to Digital Service, which is designed for that purpose.

Yes. All original albums are handled with care and returned to you after scanning. Temporary handling steps—such as removing protective plastic—are done only as needed and reversed before return.