Jake Bodhi
  • Jake Bodhi is in the market for a scanner

    Does anybody know of a scanner with a good document feeder out there? (Preferably one that supports Linux). I'm trying to go all digital, but the document feeder on my Cannon MX870 fails on documents that are not standard size/texture/condition.

    posted 22 months ago

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  • Andy Hilal
    Andy Hilal: Fujitsu has made a good name for themselves with document scanners in recent years. The ScanSnap S1300 and S1500 are both good consumer document scanners (as opposed to business models that range from $500-$3000).

    Both have complete support via the SANE project:

    http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS

    The S1500 looks pretty nice, actually. It's rated for stacks of 50 sheets at a time, 20 pages scanned per minute, and it scans both sides. It retails for around $400 though.

    The S1300 is more compact but accepts only 10 sheets and scans more slowly at 8ppm. It happens to be Mac compatible as well if you ever need that. And it retails for more like $250.

    Apparently, it will cost you a lot of paper to go paperless!
    22 months ago
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