Which scanner? need both books and photos.

[sam.burley]

I am doing a project where i scan some books (almost phone book
formats, some older some new) it will be about 8000 pages and i am
planning on doing OCR after.

At some point down the line I might end up scanning some aerial
photographs, 9x11ish contact prints.

So, I am looking for a scanner that can do 2 page scanning pretty
quickly but is good enough to be able to scan the contact prints.

Browsing the forum i see that 300 dpi greyscale might be good enough
for the ocr dpi, hoping that there would be one that takes 20 seconds
or less.

Any suggestions? I am trying to keep it 500$ or less.

Sam

 

[thomas.c.monego]

I am doing a project where i scan some books (almost phone book
formats, some older some new) it will be about 8000 pages and i am
planning on doing OCR after.

At some point down the line I might end up scanning some aerial
photographs, 9x11ish contact prints.

So, I am looking for a scanner that can do 2 page scanning pretty
quickly but is good enough to be able to scan the contact prints.

Browsing the forum i see that 300 dpi greyscale might be good enough
for the ocr dpi, hoping that there would be one that takes 20 seconds
or less.

Any suggestions? I am trying to keep it 500$ or less.

Sam

Epson, Microtek and Umax all make 12x17 scanners, forget about $500
these run $1500 - $3000 with tranparency adapters. Once tried to buy 3
(3 separate times) on Ebay all came damaged in transit, mostly from
poor packing, one was run through with a fork lift. So the used market
is iffy. You can try remarketers like ProMarketing in Phoenix, which
would get you a used, tested unit. Still don't think you will hit
$500.

Tom

 

[Barry Watzman]

UMAX makes one that is only about $160 NEW, but it won't do transparencies.