On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote: The first thing that comes to mind is static cling. Check the room humidity, if possible, and/or get some antistatic spray.

My thought is more mechanical. Is there a noticable burr round the holes in the pages (some manuals are prone to this) which is more likely to catch with the pages one way up or one way round? Have you tried scanning the back sidees with the pages rotated by $\pi$ (and then correct in software later). It may be they slip more easily that way. -tony

On 9/26/2010 6:38 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote: Most of the older documents I had had both had the toner fuse to ajoining pages as well as having had the holes drilled in the paper in such a way as to cause the papers to be held together. I know for a fact that a lot of my documentation was drilled on a paper drill after printing from stock that was not originally 3 hole. This causes an affect with the paper edges around the holds being pushed into a cone if you will that can bind to the prior page. only fanning the paper might help, and probably hand feeding each sheet is the only answer. When I was scanning for Al with his Ricoh scanners, I had to do the page at a time trick. I prepared each manual by fanning it, and making sure each page was free, then just fed each page. Sadly not being able to put in a manual and go away.

It probably doesn';t save any time or work, but what happens if you turn every other page through $\pi$ (keeping it the same face up) so that the holes/'cones' can't interlock throughout the stack. And then convince the software to roate every otehr scan back again.