I'm currently doing this, but with close to 16k slides. As I also felt uncomfortable with sending those to someone, plus the (small) risk of something getting l

I'm currently doing this, but with close to 16k slides. As I also felt uncomfortable with sending those to someone, plus the (small) risk of something getting lost while shipping, I decided to try it myself. The price difference wasn't that great at that point either. Turns out pretty much all the professional scan services use the same scanner, able of scanning a whole magazine automatically. Since there basically is just that one device that can scan magazines and delivers good quality. But as I slowly learned, this is a typical niche market with no competition, so you can ask any price you want. The device is made in China and sold under different brands in the west. In the US its pacific images and costs only around 1200$. In Germany it's either Reflecta or Braun, but they want around 1900€. The device feels cheap, sounds cheap, moving parts feel flimsy. I spent two month tinkering with different software, different settings. It has some quirks. It's slow. If the image is too bright, the included software sets exposure so low that it's scanning to fast for the internal processor and stops every second or so, creating a tiny but notable seam in the image. It's USB 2.0 but definitely not coming close to saturating that bandwidth. After about 1000 slides, the scanner produced serious artifacts in every scan. Had to send it in for repair. I don't know how you can make money using this device for scanning services. Not at the prices they charge. You barely cover the retail price once you reach the advertised life span of 20k scans.