16 Jun
2012
16 Jun
'12
2 a.m.
Consider a Ricoh IE450DE, exceptionally fast, large ADF (holds 150pp)
and wide flatbed scanning surface. It does duplex scanning as well.
Its SCSI based, so you'll need a card. Been using one for over a
year, it is a fantastic workhorse and makes short work over 150 page
documents in short order. Is Twain and ISIS compatible. I use it
through Adobe Acrobat to create PDF's of engineering documents, court
depo's, chip spec sheets, scanning in manuals, books, etc....
Really good for large D and even E sized mechanical and schematic
sheets, can usually do an E size in 6 passes and then stitch the images
together very easily in photoshop. You can usually find a good one off
of Ebay for anywhere from $500-$800.
Chris Tofu wrote:
I still have many many many large tomes and other
printed material, including vintage docs, that needs to be committed to digital format.
I'm always building something, and I gathered a hodge podge of materials in an attempt
to fenagle my own document feeder (first thought I'd use a scanner or pair, later said
screw that I'll just use a digital camera). Non destructive scanning isn't
necessarily a whole lot more difficult in my estimation (using whatever curdled gray
matter I have left), but who needs any more complexity then is necessary, so I opted for
destructive scanning (where you rip the spine of the book apart and jam it in the
mechanism). Then strolling through Target, I noticed the Epson Workforce 645 which
allegedly can take a stack of 30 sheets and scan both sides. I'd prefer 30,000 sheets,
but beggars can't always be choosers. So I bought it, but have yet to open it (my
ethic states I shouldn't crack an item unless I'm somewhat positive I'll
keep it. I _rarely_ return something I open. It bothers me to). So I would just like to
ask if any of you all have delved into this. A piddly 30 sheet document feeder still
requires you to "be there", although I suppose I could catch up on twiddling my
thumbs at least while I reduce oh 300 books to bits and bytes.