Category: Geeks r Us
Hi,
I've been researching a little in to scanners, and what I am looking for is a scanner that scan pretty fast. Are all scanners now days still consisting of moving parts? Do they all have to move down the page or are there ones that actually take a picture or have a quicker way of acquiring the image.
I am using open book and some things I am having to scan for work just take to long to use my all in one printer for.
Any ideas, sudgestions?
I'm not sure about how the inside of the scanner works, but My HP Scanner/printer works slower than my Epson scanner. I don't know if that's because it's combined with a printer though.
it seems that the scanners in all in ones may not be as good as a stand alone.
Epson scanners are reasonably fast. There is a scanner that was reviewed by Angie Matony, i believe, that was a fujitsu that was a high speed scanne,r but its probably rather expensive. You should be able to get some ideas from there.
Hi, I've heard that stand alone scanners work well with reading software like JAWS or scanning software like Kurzweil.
Well, I have to admit to a bias for separate components. My printer died last summer, and I only had to replace one thing. Admitedly, there are advantages to all-in-one devices. For one thing, it takes up less desktop "real estate" than separates. If you shop around, you can probably get one fairly inexpensively. A few years ago, the people at Kurzweil told me it is easier to get stand-alone scanners to work with Kurzweil than the all-in-one units. I have to say though, that probably the Kurzweil software has made improvements along these lines since the issue came up. I don't know of a flatbed scanner that takes a picture, rather than moving up and down the page other than the Kurzweil Mobile.
Lou
If money is not an issue for you, there is a scanner that costs 5k dollars.
However, it will cut your scanning down by 1800 percent, yes you read it right lol.
Consider the scanners now-a-days using the lamp to scan down.
You can scan a page like that in ... say one page per 20seconds?
so 5 pages for minute
Then using that to scan a book of say 500pages.
1. lift the lid
2. get a page and place it on the glass
3. close the lid
4. push scan key to scan
5. wait to scan
6. lift the lid
7. remove the page from the glass
8. replace the page with another page
9 repeats steps 3 through 8
How long would that take to scan a book that size?
A page is say 30 seconds to scan?
30*500=15000
15000/60=2500
2500/60= a little over 4 and a half hours
Of course that is the best senarial. who the hell really scans a book that size in that time. You'd be bored to tears.
anyhow, this sounds like an advertisement, but its not... I don't even work or own this scanner myself lol, simply because money is an issue for me.
Cannon multifeed, I work at a place that uses it and man it flies.
Openbook and cursweil really is a waste of money IMO. After saying that, I do own openbook, but I rarely use it. Cause after using your free scanning software to convert it to ms word or text, I mean... Isn't that what peeps do after scanning it in openbook anyway?
Invest in omnipage, their scanning engine blows openbook and cursweil out of the water hundreds of folds.
And Omnipage is cheaper than any one of those softwares.
if you have rehab councilor, I'm sure they will get omnipage for you if you ask.
Anyway, the scanner scans a page with the speed of 90ppm
it also can scan duplex with one pass through.
all the cheap scanners out there scan a page by running a lamp from top to the bottom of the page instead of moving the page through physically.
In this manner, it takes time for the lamp to do that, thus a page is scanned through about 15 to 20 seconds per page.
I've heard of a scanner about 200dollars that can feed in a page one at a time, you might wish to search google or your favorite search engine about page feeding scanners.
So to recap, there are really 2 basic different types of scanners.
One that does not move the page and uses a laser to capture the image.
The other moves the page through and uses the laser to capture the image.
So you can see the major advantage of the latter.