also, are there auto-feeding scanners to be had, for big paper scanning jobs? it's such a pain to do it page by page by hand. --fj
hello folks,
I currently have an old microtek scanner, it does a good job but oh boy is it SLOW . . . like molasses in january. have to sit and sit while it previews, then sit and sit while it scans and resets. and I am blinded by the light if I lift the lid before the scanning cycle completes.
also, when i went to windows 2k, it really didn't like that too much, had to install new drivers but I never got full functionality. so it's hooked up to my win 98 machine. that's not important tho . . .
what IS important is I have a huge scanning job ahead of me-- hundreds of pages, and I think it's time for a new scanner, BUT-- is a newer scanner any faster? and any advice on what to get? am running AMD 1800 win2000 on main machine, altho i think it would be better to hook this up to my win98 machine as that office has more room.
fyi, I do a fair amount of scanning color pictures, but this job happens to be converting a lot of b&w pages to pdf.
thanks! - fj

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