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[jrittenhouse]

The big items of getting the taxes out and getting a pile of documents out for the refinance to the lender is over with; I don’t, at present, have a scanner that can handle legal-sized paper, and I killed a lot of time trying to figure a clever way around that. My clever ways all sucked, and Susan ended up taking it over to Office Depot for

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[princejvstin]

Ceasar reference for the win!

Racine, huh? That would make me tempted to get a Kringle...

[jrittenhouse]

Me too. If I was going, I would - or even better, up to Balistreri's in town for a pizza. However, I've been complaining about time to get stuff done here, and the missus said - if you need time so bad, stay here and work.

That Gallic Wars quote was supposed to have strikeouts, but they didn't come over from Wordpress for some reason. I put them back in.

[jrittenhouse]

That's my life. You should see the To-Scan pile here. Jocelyn could swim in it.

[beamjockey]

Beware. We have some model of ScanSnap at my office (can't find a model number on it, sorry, it looks like this) and the paper handling is terrible.

It is extremely cantankerous about grabbing the next sheet of paper and pulling it through. Sometimes it grabs two or more at the same time. More often it refuses to grab paper in the hopper at all.

I've had difficulty feeding it even a single sheet.

It does make PDFs of nice clarity and high resolution. I find the software somewhat inflexible-- would be nice if we could tell it to rotate a page 90 degrees in creating a PDF, for example-- but it gets the job done.

Conceivably Fujitsu has improved these things since Fermilab bought one. But you have been warned.

[jrittenhouse]

The person who recommended this is the records manager at the EPA office (who is on LJ and may read this - hi, Lynn!) and the ratings for the thing looked good.

I had a choice of this or the deluxe version with all sorts of software, which the reviewers all said was pretty cranky, so I'm passing on the 'deluxe' version. Check out the link in the main post - different breed of cat, I think, and the paper movement seems to be good from what they're saying.

For anything really ragged, I use the flatbed. But THANK YOU for the comment, and I'll keep my eyes open.

[romsfuulynn]

I'm very pleased so far with the one I'm using at my mother's. Don't waste your money of the software though, it comes with a perfectly nice free piece of software that keeps the files in a Windows directory structure that you can use even absent the Scansnap organizer.

I've had good luck with a Fujitsus all across the cost spectrum.

[jrittenhouse]

That's what I thought...I *THINK* this is the model you recommended, yes?

[grey_lensman]

I use the Mac version for scanning my school notes, and love it. I have had it misfeed once or twice, but the very short paper path means it hasn't mangled my papers. I use the included software, and if I need to adjust something, Pages or the Gimp do the job.