Downsizing Photo Albums
The old anxiom garbage in garbage out is the rule here. You can't tweak the fuzzy out of an out of focus photo and make it sharp; I can't anyway .. and I've tried!
I bought a new HP photo smart S20 on Ebay, I think I paid around $50.00, but that was a year ago, anything past last wk I'm fuzzy on! This is more or less designed for slides, (put the slide in a little tray, it eats it, copys it, then spits it out) it will take 4x5 photos but I think the quality suffers when copying prints. Prints is when you want to use a table top scanner. It will copy negatives, but I didn't like them either.
However, I think the slide quality is superb, as John said probabley not up to pro standards, but plenty good enough for me. I have blown faces up and printed them w/negible loss of sharpness.
If your curious put "HP photo smart S20" on Ebay's search engine and see what pops up, or just put it on google, jeeves, yahoo, etc. and see what pops up.
Wow! I just followed my own advice and see its listed for $499.00 at the Kelkoo site ... I know I didn't pay that much, maybe a hundred, but I don't think so.
Good luck.