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Autofeed scanners?
Authored by: Chas on Mar 06, '02 04:26:05PM

I've been looking for a scanner with an autofeeder, for scanning a pile of letter-size documents. I have an old Epson Expression 636, I could buy a feeder for it, but the feeder sells for $495, I could buy a whole new scanner for that price, and I don't really want to throw more money at an older SCSI scanner..
So.. I'm not happy with epson and lack of support for my 636 and my 1520 printer, I'm looking for alternate solutions with good MacOS X support. The HP scanners look good but pricey, they're supported with Vuescan according to the docs. I suspect there are cheaper autofeeder scanners out there.
BTW, I'm getting great results scanning and archiving old papers with Adobe Acrobat. I scan 300dpi 1-bit tiffs, and they're hugely compressed in the pdf file. They print great on a laser printer, they look just like xerox copies. I estimate I could get about 6000 pages on a CDR. But the manual scanning is horribly tedious, I need an automated solution.



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Autofeed scanners?
Authored by: el bid on Mar 06, '02 06:06:56PM
The HP scanners look good but pricey, they're supported with Vuescan according to the docs.

Why not email Ed Hamrick and ask his opinion of the HP scanners versus the Epson scanners first...

BTW, I'm getting great results scanning and archiving old papers with Adobe Acrobat. I scan 300dpi 1-bit tiffs, and they're hugely compressed in the pdf file. They print great on a laser printer, they look just like xerox copies. I estimate I could get about 6000 pages on a CDR.

Before you get into that in a big way you might want to check out OmniPage Pro X. It can produce pdfs that fit the above description, but they also have the text of the page embedded behind the image, so you can string search, and also extract the text with standard copy and paste.

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