Sheet-feed scanners

From: Antonio Carlini <arcarlini_at_iee.org>
Date: Tue Dec 16 02:27:38 2003

If you don't want to chop the spine off the books, there are
photocopiers that will scan right up to one edge specifically
to allow you to hang a book over the edge and still
get the whole page. I assume that these days such photcopiers
are likely to be multifunction network devices (scanner, printer,
photocopier) so there *should* be scanners that will do what
you need.

You'll definitely want a fast sacnner though, standing there
while turning pages gets fairly boring fairly quickly!

I know of nothing that will turn the pages of the book for you :-)

Antonio
 

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Antonio Carlini             arcarlini_at_iee.org
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> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave
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> Subject: RE: Sheet-feed scanners
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> 
>       Thanks for your reply on a subject that I have an 
> interest in  :-).  I have some books that I use in my work 
> that I would like to scan (for personal use) to put on my 
> laptop, to make it more convenient to carry around.  I have 
> about 20,000 pages that I would like to do eventually.  Here 
> is my question.  I am trying to figure out what would be the 
> cheapest way to get them scanned or to do them myself.  I 
> don't mind buying a scanner.  I already have a very fast 
> computer.  So....what I would like to know is what type of 
> scanner should I buy or rent to do the job and what software 
> do I need.  I have all the Adobe Acrobat stuff already.  I 
> called one company and they gave me an extremely high price 
> to so the scanning for me, and insisted that I tear all the 
> pages out of my books, so they can be fed into the auto 
> scanner.  I prefer not to do that.  What I need is a fast 
> scanner where I could do several hundred pages at a time, 
> each day until I'm done if it will save me a ton of money.  
> They wanted something like $.08/page.  I figure that I can 
> buy a nice scanner much cheaper than paying all that money to 
> have my stuff scanned ($1,700.00).  What  would you recommend, please?

Received on Tue Dec 16 2003 - 02:27:38 GMT