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Need help with scanning and conversion process
Matt Wood | May 30 2006
I'm looking to scan a fair amount of documents for a research project (so I don't have to carry them with me everywhere), and I'd like to get some input on the best way to scan them and convert them into a workable format, like PDF. I've done this the hard way for one-off jobs before, by scanning with my little Canon flat bed scanner as an image then converting to PDF via the OS X print to PDF function, but this is time consuming and the files turn out quite large. Does anyone have any more recommendations on how to do this more efficiently? I read about the Fujitsu scanner on this thread, which sounds fantastic, but that's a lot of money. I also hear that Kinko's will scan documents for you. How is their service? Any other software or gear that can automate this? 6 Comments
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 I recently bought the Fujistu...Submitted by feebleoreo on May 31, 2006 - 11:04am.
I recently bought the Fujistu SnapScan, and it was totally worth it. My wife had kept all of her class notes, papers, handouts, and any copied articles from her entire college career. It was around 20-25 binders FULL of papers. We were about to move to a tiny little apartment, and there was no way all that junk was going to fit. So I called around. Kinko's had a service but it was somewhere between 10 and 25 cents a page to scan and dump things into PDFs. For me, it was cheaper to get the scanner in the end. Plus, when I'm finally done (I still have a binder or two to do), I can throw it up on eBay and remake some of what I spent. It's very fast, scans both sides, and comes with a full version of Acrobat. The OCR in Acrobat seems to work very well. » POSTED IN:
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