Re: document archiving w/ scanner
Hey Martin-
I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and can be
connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under debian, using the
SANE backends, although the one put out by epson (the "epkowa" driver)
works better than the epson one included with SANE. I wrote a simple
script to turn documents into PDF's; it's not exactly perfect, but it does
the job: http://www.unc.edu/home/aperrin/tips/src/pdfscan-pl.txt
Best,
Andy
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, martin f krafft wrote:
> I am drowning in paperwork and have decided to digitalise it all.
> A friend of mine has a HP scanner with automatic paperfeed capable
> of doing 15 pages/min. I don't need quite that much performance
> (though I would not complain), but I need to be able to do this in
> Linux. Moreover, the scanned documents should become PDFs or
> otherwise easily searchable, otherwise there is no point in the
> whole endeavour.
>
> Is anyone using scanners for document archiving? What software are
> you using? How well does it work? What scanner(s) can you recommend?
>
> Thanks,
>
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