[blindlaw] Fujitsu ScanSnap s500

[Angie Matney]

If you can afford it, I highly, highly recommend the Fujitsu FI-5120C or the FI-5220C. The 5120 is a sheetfed scanner; the 5220 is a sheetfed combined with a flatbed. The 5120 runs about 800-900, I think, and the 5220 is about $400 more.

I have the 5220C. I can scan 100 pages in seven minutes. And the results are unbelievable. No more waiting for DSS to get books to me. My copies even turned out to be better than the electronic book I got from one publisher.

I don't know much about the ScanSnap. The scanner I have is duplex, so it scans both sides of the page at once. IMO, it's more than a reasonable investment. It's incredible to buy a book and have it ready to read the same day with very 
little fus.

Angie

On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:43:12 -0300, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

>Good afternoon,
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>I am thinking about purchasing a new scanner for my first year of law school.  Is anyone familiar with the Fujitsu ScanSnap s500 and how well it performs as both a scanner and how well the Abbyy OCR bundled with it performs for OCR?
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>Any other sheet-fed scanner recommendations would be great.
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>Thanks,
>Everett
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