Help with scanning old photos needed

I have a HP Officejet 6500 printer and scanner and have tried to scan some old photos. Problem is they appear in the top left of a page of A4 paper. Is there anyway I can scan these but so that it doesn't look like a blob in the corner. They are very old photos so probably only about 3" square.

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  • DMFR
    DMFR Posts: 74 Forumite
    Are you printing out the scanned images?
    Can you put more than one photo on the scanner at a time?
  • shopndrop
    shopndrop Posts: 3,548 Forumite
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    No I am not printing them, want to add them to Ancestry as part of my family history but when I add them, they look a bit daft with all the rest of the page white. I only have 1 photo of each person, so need them on separate pages.
  • You need to look for the crop facility in the programme you are using.
  • shopndrop
    shopndrop Posts: 3,548 Forumite
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    You need to look for the crop facility in the programme you are using.

    Only recently started using a scanner so sorry for daft question but will I find that on the scanner or the computer?
  • bigpound
    bigpound Posts: 259 Forumite
    Some software does an autocrop which detects where there is nothing scanned and removes. Or some asks you to specify a size, like an a5 postcard.

    You can find this either on the scanner itself and/or under the options of the software. Or you may not have that feature at all, in which case you can open the images with paint and crop them manually.
  • shopndrop
    shopndrop Posts: 3,548 Forumite
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    Thank you all so much, with your help I have managed to do it. Very much appreciated. :j:j
  • santer_2
    santer_2 Posts: 4,406 Forumite
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    Change scan settings
    To change scan settings
    • Windows: Open the HP Solution Center, select Settings, select Scan Settings and
    Preferences, then select from the available options and make your selections.
    • HP Device Manager (Mac OS X): Launch HP Device Manager, click Information
    and Settings, and then select Scan Preferences from the drop-down list.

    From here, page 51

    http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01669504.pdf

    Just saw your post, though the user guide may be of use
  • DMFR
    DMFR Posts: 74 Forumite
    bigpound wrote: »
    you can open the images with paint and crop them manually.

    Right click on the saved image and choose EDIT. Paint should open up. You will see your scanned image with a lot of white around it. If you go to the middle of the bottom/side/corner of the white space you should see a small square. Click and hold it as you crop to your scanned image.
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