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Re: Electronic Scanning of documents



Polaroid/Nikon film scanner and scan the negs.
Flatbed scanner & Trans-illuminator to scan lots of negs
Flatbed scanner and a lot of patience to scan the prints.=20
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Electronic Scanning of documents


tim but how do i get them in the pc in the first place :-)=20


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Pioneer 105 DVD-RW.=20
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what is good solution to archiving hoads of my family pics=20
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From: Paul Robinson [mailto:ukcueman@xxxxxxx]=20
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Yes. I'm not sure I'd use the auto document feeder for that=
though because=20
it pushes the stuff over a roller that bends it on the way =
to get scanned.=20
But you can use it like a flatbed scanner as well if you wa=
nt. I forget what=20
the maximum resolution is, but it's high and IMHO good enou=
gh for family=20
pics.=20
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From: "aashram" <groups@xxxxxxx>=20
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>=20
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paul can you feed photos in there too ?=20
I want to archive all my family pics :-)=20
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-----Original Message-----=20
From: Paul Robinson [mailto:ukcueman@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Fri 23/05/2003 09:10=20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
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Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Electronic Scanning of documents=20
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I use the epson perfection 1640SU.=20
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Great for piling a load of A4 (or slightly bigger) sheets o=
nto it and=20
scanning lots in one go. I think it's very fast, but then I=
've only had an=20
old flatbed scanner to compare it to and that was pathetica=
lly slow.=20
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Paul=20
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From: "Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>=20
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>=20
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:05 AM=20
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Can't find any scanners really with auto-sheet feeders most=
of them have=20
a auto photo feeder but that's about it.=20
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Any ideas?=20
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Kind Regards,=20
Chris Bond=20
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From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 23 May 2003 8:56 AM=20
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We use an HP Officejet with Document Feeder, and it was pre=
tty poor in=20
everything we tried... right up until we got a copy of ABBY=
Y Finereader.=20
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That software is the absolute Mutt's nuts, does amazingly g=
ood OCR, and=20
is=20
*lightning* fast.=20
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Highly Recommended=20
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Ian.=20
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From: "Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>=20
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>=20
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:51 AM=20
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> Slightly OT, but as its automation could well be OT for a=
change :)=20
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> What would people recommend for scanning electronic docum=
ents, what I=20
> want to happen is the post comes in the morning all of it=
is opened=20
and=20
> electronically scanned and filed.  I'd prefer an auto rea=
der so it=20
makes=20
> it easier to scan the documents in.=20
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> Anybody recommend any solutions, I have ScanSoft Paperpor=
t which looks=20
> good enough to store the documents in.  The scanner solut=
ion is the=20
one=20
> im not too sure on - id prefer not to spend =C2=A31000 on=
a solution too.=20
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> Kind Regards,=20
> Chris Bond=20
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