GEDI (Groundtruthing Environment for Document Images) is a highly configurable document image annotation tool. Its basic structure involves two types of files, an Image file, and a corresponding .XML file in GEDI format. LAMP Univ of MD, College Park, MD
Scanning albums is not an easy task, since the extraction of actual photographs within scans is usually very tedious.
This tool allows you to scan as much as you can fit into your scanner and then semi-automatedly extract the contained photographs.
The tool also allows to extract scans of multiple single photographs (i.e. without album)
Find a full documentation here: http://dominik-ruess.de/scannerExtract/
Note: The scanning itself is the most time consuming part. ...