[Gllug] Scanning

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:37, t.clarke wrote:
> The problem is that one of our customer in France wants to us to scan various
> shiping-related documents and then email the scans to them, rather than faxing
> or posting at present.
> 
> We have experience of using an HP USB scanner on a Windows PC and the whole
> process sems painfully slow.  Fine if you want to scan just a few sheets,
> but if more than a few are involved the process seems to take forever.
> 
> Anyone had experience with scanners who can suggest best hardware to use ?

We bought a Fuijitsu SCSI scanner (Scanpartner 600c from memory) that
scans from a sheet feeder - it is very fast, and the scans seem to be of
reasonable quality, but I haven't tried it under linux. That sort of
thing might be worth looking at. Cost about 600 UKP at the time.

Simon

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