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If you don't want to read the whole review below, here is the conclusion. If your goal is to scan to back up old photos the Plustek Z300 is a winner. Affordable, fast, auto-crops and the color accuracy is great. This review will be a comparison between two of my top choices for scanners. The Plustek Photo Scanner vs Doxie Go SE. At the time of my research, these two scanners were my top picks based on reviews, features, and price. I bought the Moxie first and it proved itself to be capable with decent scan speeds, good image quality and a bonus feature of portability. Since it has a battery and internal memory I can take it anywhere in the house and scan. This wasn't a feature I was looking for but I can see it's appeal. Although the Moxie had two deal breakers for me. It failed to auto-crop and the color reproduction was subpar. Now don't get me wrong it's supposed to auto crop, but I could never get the feature to work even with a call from support. While the support was helpful the fact the scans clearly didn't look very true to the original image was a problem. Supports recommendation was to use a third party platform like Lightroom. While that is good advice, my goal was to scan hundreds of images I had in a massive box and not have to spend extra time cropping and editing. So while I liked the Moxie and see how it could be useful for other scanning scenarios the problems I experienced made me rule it out and move on to another solution. Just to be fair to the Moxie I tinkered with the settings to see if I could "dial it in" and make it work but had to success. Next I used my flatbed scanner to see how it would compare. Needless to say, the flatbed produced exactly what I was looking for but it wasn't a good alternative because I didn't want to open that lid a million times, push the button endlessly, wait, and well you get the picture. The second scanner I bought was the Plustek. After a quick 5 minute setup I threw in the same photo I was using as the test image. First, the speed was really impressive. I would say it was about twice as fast as the Moxie, not that speed was crucial since I would pick quality over speed if I had to. After saving the scan out Plustecks software, no editing, I compared it to my other test scans and wow. It was really close to the flatbed scanner! It auto-cropped perfectly and the color was great. So far I would say the software for both scanners is good, although after a few minutes of use I prefer the Plustek. If your goal is to scan a big box of photos the Plustek checks all the boxes. Affordable, fast, easy to use and excellent results the Plustek has earned its spot as my go-to for photo archiving.