By most estimates 4-5 trillion photographs exist worldwide. Many are priceless memories of cherished events like weddings, graduations, birthdays, holidays, and vacations.

Unfortunately, over 95% of these photographs are aging in shoeboxes or photo albums. Most photographs are seemingly doomed to obscurity. Even worse, left unprotected from fire, flood, natural disaster or simply deterioration from old age they will be lost forever!

Your photos are meant to be kept, protected, shared, and enjoyed. Now, it is possible to get those photographs out of their unprotected hide-aways. Leading the charge is Kodak, with its Photo Saving Scanning Systems.

The Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes to make photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. In fact, today's Kodak is known not only for photography, but also for images used in a variety of leisure, commercial, entertainment and scientific applications. Its reach increasingly involves the use of technology to combine images and information--creating the potential to profoundly change how people and businesses communicate.

Kodak offers the only complete line of Picture Saver Scanning System scanners to scan and convert paper photographs into digital images. In addition, it has over 100,000 Kodak Picture Kiosks worldwide that let users make prints and enlargements, cards, birth announcements, invitations or calendars, in just seconds using any digital photo, such as those on a digital camera card, camera phone or preservation disc. Many kiosks also include a feature to scan your paper photographs.

But now picture scanning has become very personal!

This month, Kodak announced the KODAK P460 Personal Photo Scanner. This new product makes it easy to scan your printed photos, from wallet size to 4 × 6 in., as well as 35mm negatives and save them instantly to the included SD memory card or your computer. Expected availability is August 2010.

Priced at under $120, this photo scanner offers do-it-yourself enthusiasts a compact, easy and fun to use way of capturing those favorite moments so they can be kept, protected, shared, and enjoyed — wherever!

Having scanned tens of thousands of personal photographs as an authorized KODAK Document Conversion Center and Reseller, E-Z Photo Scan, powered by i/oTrak, provides assistance to those looking to do their own scanning, have it done for them, or a combination of both. We offer the complete line of KODAK scanners, specializing in the Picture Saver Scanning System by KODAK.