If it could do A4 then I see no reason why it could not also be used as a conventional page scanner with OCR software able to turn the pages into editable text if required. I myself have numerous 6inch wide offerings that have no longer or never had negatives for. It would also be nice if the unit could handle wider images (up to say A4) as there are lots of wider than 11cm images about. It would however improve the value if something of the sort were included on a CD. Once you have scanned the images to a PC there are a range of software products that can improve the original or remove things like scratches or marks but that is beyond the range of this product.
Should you images be larger or you are away from a PC for a longer time I see no reason why a larger capacity card could not be used and the required files moved to it so that you could capture an even larger number if required. So this leaves you around 425MB of space for photographs, using my rough figure that means you can save around 850 photographs to the supplied card before it becomes totally full. The stuff on the card, documentation in six languages and the utility to allow you to scan direct to your PC take around 60MB. As a ball park figure a range of 6x4inch (15x10cm) photographs averaged out at around 500KB each so say two to a Megabyte.
The size of the files will of course vary according to the size of the picture and indeed the content of it.
I scanned a number of photographs that I had taken more than a few years ago that had become separated (misplaced) from the negatives so the possibilities of getting copies from the negatives was not an option for me. There is some software on the provided (512MB) SD card to allow you to scan direct to the PC and while this works the whole beauty of this small unit is that you can visit granny or auntie and browse her photographs and add them to your collection without the original having to leave her front room.
By default if you connect the USB cable to a PC it will see it as a USB SD card.
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