On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:44:03AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of > documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a > page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for > my purposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a > photocopier. An alternative would be to have something that can > process a whole stack of papers automatically. > > Anyone that has had any experiences with this?
You can get scanners with sheet feeders. Some are actual dedicated high-speed/high-capacity scanners, those are very expensive. More economical are the ones that are ordinary flatbed scanners, but the top lid is replaced by a sheet feeder attachment that works pretty much the same way as the top-mounted sheet feeders on copy machines. Scanning doesn't take 2 minutes per page anymore, but add in OCR and it probably takes at least that long. Off the top of my head I can't give you model numbers or anything, but if you go to some big reseller site like cdw.com you should be able to find some of these. It used to be that a lot of HP scanners just swapped the top lid like I said, you could later add the sheet feeder or buy it preinstalled just like the duplex adapter on most printers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
