>Anybody offer a scanner that goes directly to disk,
>possibly via TWAIN over USB? Seems possible
>since there are digital camera solutions that do that.
>My dad wants to do scanning and is computer shy...
>the idea is that I would visit him semiregularly and
>offload/OCR/organize his work then.
>This would involve the destruction of NO manuals.
I don't know about directly to disk, but I can say that Adobe Acrobat's
"Import from Scanner" feature makes it just about directly to disk.
With Acrobat (full version, not Reader), when I choose import, it brings
up my scanner control, I click SCAN (or change options if I want, but I
have it preset to how I want things and it keeps it how I last set it).
My scanner starts, scans the sheets in the sheet feeder, and then Acrobat
prompts me to reinsert for the back side, or asks if there are any more
pages (depending on if I said it was double or single sided).
Once the scan process is done, I'm left with an open new PDF file of all
the scanned pages, in order (including properly ordering the double sided
pages). I just choose Save, give it a name, and I'm done.
So basically, it isn't directly to disk, but it is only about 6 steps to
a finished product, and all the steps are fairly simple so a quick cheat
sheet of directions might be enough for all but the full fledged
technophobes.
-chris
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