Scanning a very large number of papers.

BML · 11-03-2009, 09:37 AM

I want to collate a mass of papers mostly typewritten and I want to be able to access their content using the "Find" facility.

At the moment I have a CanoScan 8400F which has and indeed is, given good service but I wonder if there is anything available that is faster. I have read about scanning machines that one can load with a number of sheets to be scanned but don’t think that the papers I want scanned are amenable to that sort of treatment so I suspect they will have to be scanned singly.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

gcavan · 11-03-2009, 02:05 PM

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I have read about scanning machines that one can load with a number of sheets to be scanned

This would be scanner/copier with a document feeder

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the papers I want scanned are not amenable to that sort of treatment so I suspect they will have to be scanned singly.

Do you mean your pages are non standard size/weight, or they are too valuable to risk a mishap? Either way, you are probably right. In the former case, speak to a retailer, they should let you test a sample of your pages on their equipment.

BML · 11-04-2009, 09:35 AM

Many thanks.
BML

11-03-2009, 09:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
BML Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 9 OS: xp	Scanning a very large number of papers. I want to collate a mass of papers mostly typewritten and I want to be able to access their content using the "Find" facility. At the moment I have a CanoScan 8400F which has and indeed is, given good service but I wonder if there is anything available that is faster. I have read about scanning machines that one can load with a number of sheets to be scanned but don’t think that the papers I want scanned are amenable to that sort of treatment so I suspect they will have to be scanned singly. Does anyone have any suggestions?

11-04-2009, 09:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
BML Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 9 OS: xp	Re: Scanning a very large number of papers. Many thanks. BML