recommendations for a document scanner

[James]

Like some other posts to this group, I am looking for a document
scanner to digitize several thousand documents. I currently have an HP
all-in-one 6110 which does not cut it.

Purpose for scanner:
My wife and I spent a combined 12 years in graduate school and were not
very organized. We would like to scan the documents we accrued to PDF
and recycle the paper. We would prefer to create PDFs (well, we could
do MS's version) and to have the text OCR'd so we can do some
searching. We will be using EndNotes (bibliographic software) for
maintaining journal artcles for referencing, but we would definately
appreciate suggestions for document managment systems as well.

Doc type:
* Several thousand docs to be scanned
* Mostly 15 to 20 pages
* Library photo copies of journal articles
* Class, lecture and experiment notes
* Mostly black and white text and figures

Scanner requirements:
* Scan speed minimum 7 to 10 ppm
* duplexing, two sided scanning
* no jamming
* duty cycle of at least 1000 pages a day
* less than $1000 US

Scanned results will be stored in PDF and searched.

Any suggestions would be greatly appeciated. Thanks.

 

[Marc Heusser]

Doc type:
* Several thousand docs to be scanned
* Mostly 15 to 20 pages
* Library photo copies of journal articles
* Class, lecture and experiment notes
* Mostly black and white text and figures

Scanner requirements:
* Scan speed minimum 7 to 10 ppm
* duplexing, two sided scanning
* no jamming
* duty cycle of at least 1000 pages a day
* less than $1000 US

Just acquired a used Xerox WorkCentre Pro 416 Si - as a digital laser
copier mainly, but I found the scanning function to be useful. It will
send you tiff files scanned at 400dpi from its usual document feeder
(duplex too to any e-mail-Address you specify.
You might want to take a look at Xerox's range of multi function copiers
and check whether one of those is within your requirements (resolution,
duplex etc) and budget. www.xerox.com
Send e-mail if you would like to have a scanned journal article sent to
you.
(BTW: Depending on the date, getting journal articles electronically
from a database etc might be the easier solution than sanning and OCR,
OCR is still error prone even at 99%+ correct recognition.)

HTH

Marc