What's a small, fast document scanner?
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August 3rd, 2008
I’m looking for something to scan receipts. I needs to be small and very fast. It’d be neat if it were networked, but it doesn’t need to be.
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I’d look into OCR, there are programs to do it, here is one for Linux. But I’m fairly sure there are programs for Mac & PC. My boss uses it to scan books.
Here’s cnet’s list of sheet fed scanners.
NEAT Receipts scores a 7.9 of 10. It’s the only sheet fed on their site that’s rated.
this might not be what you’re looking for, but how about a pen scanner?
I ended up getting the Fujitsu ScanSnap (for mac). It’s one of the most brilliant pieces of equipment I’ve ever had. I thought people were being hyperbolic in the Amazon reviews, but it’s really amazing.
Double-sided scanning as fast as sheets feed through a printer. Plus, the OCR is great—you can batch convert all your scans into searchable PDFs and then they’re indexed by spotlight.
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