14 Apr
2009
14 Apr
'09
2:23 p.m.
I have an epson perfection scanner which can scan up to 5x7 transparancies.
Once I have the template set, I can do a fiche in about 5 min.
If you can snag one of these with the appropriate size transparency
capability of any size, I recommend getting it, as it is very fast. I
don't know what exists for sheet feeders on this scanner, but I would
think with a sheet feeder, you could do 10 pages / min minimum for full
size sheet scanning as well, not bad considering you could do both.
I had one of Al's high speed Ricoh's for a while, and the real problem
you get into is that manuals which have been stored for a long time, and
are not offset print (ink) but are xerox or such printing the pages will
be stuck enough to keep you from using the real full speed of his
scanners. I ended up having to do a sheet by sheet feed with mouse
clicks per page anyway to scan a manual. Admittedly it was a very fast
process, but not that much faster than the above.
Jim
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 4/14/09, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
wrote:
only fiddly if you have crappy scanning software. Some have front ends
which show some thought went into actually using the product, and not
just printing on the box that "scanner comes with software".
Epson's rates highest on my scale for generic software.
Jim
I have all of the diag listing on fiche. The
scanner that I have is a bit
difficult to use, so it takes about an hour per sheet to set up and scan.
Wow. That's fiddly. I can understand things being difficult - the
information density on a fiche is rather high.