Preserve Your Family's History in Digital Format

Photo & Print Scanning Services

Print materials are professionally scanned and converted to high-resolution JPG files that can be viewed on digital devices, easily shared, and safely stored in a digital environment. The Camera Shop in St. Cloud, MN offers professional photo scanning services for prints of all sizes — from wallet photos to 12x18 enlargements — as well as documents, artwork, recipes, and other printed memorabilia. Digitizing your photos protects them from fading, fire, and flood while making it easy to share family memories with relatives near and far.

Open Prep Guide

Scanned images can be texted to grandkids, uploaded to the cloud, or displayed on a digital photo frame — no special equipment required. And unlike physical prints, your digitized photos won't fade, yellow, or get lost over time. Bring in your prints, slides, or documents and let our St. Cloud scanning experts handle the rest.

Prints and photographs are first sorted by size for scanning efficiency.

The individually digitized with a high-resolution, high-speed scanner.

Each image is adjusted for color, sharpness + vibrancy.

Resulting in quality digital images to enjoy on today's technology.

Once digitized, the lifespan of your printed memorabilia is substantially increased and protected from environmental damage like fires or flooding. Here are some examples of the types of materials we can scan:

How it works:

• Drop off your printed memorabilia to be scanned and digitized at our store.
• A few days later – return to pick up your digital storage device (DVD, USB drive, external drive, etc.), which will contain each scanned/digitized image as a .jpg file.
• Front and back scanning is available.
• Your memorabilia is cared for by our trained archiving experts, who will treat your materials with the utmost care.
• Your items never leave our property or get shipped away.
• All original items are returned to you after the process is complete.

Begin by selecting and sorting the prints that you'd like preserved. Gather them from albums, boxes, drawers and relatives first.

We can digitize nearly any size print up to 12x18 and sometimes larger. Framed or mounted prints can also be scanned."

We recommend a USB drive for each family member. In addition, we suggest backing up your files with a trusted cloud service for long term storage.

When bringing in loose prints, please remove any staples, tape, and paperclips.

All prints are scanned with high-resolution scanning equipment in our St. Cloud, MN production facility.

Your one-of-a-kind printed family history deserves to be preserved for future generations to enjoy.

COPYRIGHT NOTE – Our policy is to make every effort possible to protect the rights of professional photographers. Work that is clearly copyrighted will not be scanned without the written permission of the photographer/creator.