Document scanner home solutions?

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ibex333

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I been looking for some ways to digitize tons of papers I have to store and sort all the time. Bills, school, work, medical and legal documents. I am not running a business - just an average joe. I don't have tons of papers, but it would just be nice to get rid of whatever I have.

I was looking for something that has a document feeder, and scans pages FAST. Not necessarily office copy machine fast, but fast enough to do say... 10 pages per minute.
I have a Brother MFC inkjet printer combined with a laser standalone at home, and together they do the job, but the document feeder on the AIO is slow! It takes a good 15-30 seconds or so run a single page through the scanner and return it back to me depending on quality.

I looked at some dedicated document scanners online but they cost $300-900+


Are there any cheaper solutions that anyone knows of?

Thanks.
 

JulesMaximus

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I bought my wife a decent Xerox scanner a couple years ago for her business. I don't remember what it cost (wasn't much) but it is fairly fast and works well. She is very happy with it.
 
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alien42

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i use a Neat Portable scanner at work for our receipts. it's a great little machine but may not be fast enough for what you are looking for.
 

Brian Stirling

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I think the best choice is something like the Brother MFC series that do large format paper (11x17). Try buying a stand alone large format scanner -- they're more expensive than the large format MFC printers.

I have used several models of them and the scanning speed can be as slow as 30 seconds and as fast as 5 seconds -- it depends on the size of the paper AND what your scanning settings are. For example, if the settings for scanning are 24-bit color at 600x600 it will take a lot longer than if it were Black & White at 300x300.

I use them mostly to scan in receipts for work so my settings are:

PDF, Black & White, 300x300 and that's pretty fast and the quality of the scan is still pretty good.


Brian
 

LeoW

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I recently bought the fujitsu ScanSnap ix500. It's incredible. 50 pages per minute, 2 sided. I've had no problems with it. It's about $450, but it's worth it to eliminate all the file cabinets.
 

yinan

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I also love the Fujitsu ScanSnap line. I have had the S500 (I think?) for a long time now, it is fast, has a document feeder, and can scan both sides at the same time. Like LeoW said it wasn't cheap, but I spent way more than that on scanners I hated.
 

Fayd

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I also love the Fujitsu ScanSnap line. I have had the S500 (I think?) for a long time now, it is fast, has a document feeder, and can scan both sides at the same time. Like LeoW said it wasn't cheap, but I spent way more than that on scanners I hated.

I second the fujitsu.

I bought it a couple years ago based on a need given by parents, and based on best judgement considering newegg reviews.

parents have put over 20,000 pages through it without any catastrophic failure. Seems to be going well.
 
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