hi,

Can anyone recomend a good scanner (with as cheap as posible price,
i'm a sofmore in hs ;-) ) that has an ADF and can scan both sides of a
page?

thx for the help,

dan

From a hardware stand point that would be considered a Duplex scanner.

However, we sell a product ($70) that can turn any ADF scanner into a
software supported Duplex scanner.

You scan one side, and then our product has you enter the pages back in and
it outputs your images.

So you could buy any cheap ADF scanner and turn it into a duplex scanner.

You can read about Art-Copy here: http://www.scanhelp.com/288int/artcopy


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I have had excellent experience with the Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-5110EOX.
Great for scanning big stacks of paper.

It's purely sheet-fed, with a 50-shet ADF, not a flatbed.

Street price is about $400.

It scans about 12 double-sided sheets/minute at 300 DPI,
and 6 sheets/minute at 600 DPI (these are my actual measured
speeds, not specs).

The thing I like most is that it's unflappable: never misfeeds,
never makes me reboot to get its attention, doesn't wander off
into a black hole, responds gracefully to errors, etc. This is
a marked contrast to the other somewhat faster but far more
persnickety scanners (Xerox Documate 252, Canon DR-2080C) that
I am also using in a large document-scanning project.

It comes bundled with Acrobat 6.0, as well as its own bundled
scanner interface software that is stable and simple to use
(again, in contrast to many other units).


Dan Irwin wrote:

are these TWAIN compatable scanners? I know the 2080 isn't.

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anyone know anything about the hp 5490? i saw it on ebay real cheap.

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Dan Irwin wrote:

Fujitsu ScanSnap is not TWAIN-compatible; from what I can tell,
that property may significantly contribute to its ease-of-use.
It only produces PDFs, but you can get the images back out as
TIFFs with the bundled Acrobat software.

Xerox Documate 252 is TWAIN-compatible.

I'm only interested in scanning to files (which get OCR'd and
otherwise processed later), so I haven't explored TWAIN.

You need to be more spacific on what you want to do.
? Are you going to use OCR?
? Are you going to creat PDF?

I have found over the years that OCR is not all that what I thought it
would be. There is a lot of time spent correcting OCR. It's not a
perfect system.

I have also found that Adobe Acrobat can help you out with double
sided documents. It asks you if it is double sided. Once you finish
scanning all the pages of one side you turn it arround and it scanns
all the pages of the other side. Adobe then puts it all together the
way it should be. Great feature that helps when using a standard ADF.

I had the HP 7450 (discontinued but available at Ebay). It worked
great and was a good all around scanner that did documents, photos,
and film (soso).

Don't send more than you have to and try to realize the differnce
between HYPE and reality.

Good luck.

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