Document Scanner - suggestions?

tocsin

I'm asking here as I hope to get practical more than technical suggestions

Currently have a very old Epson Perfection scanner and ABBYY FineReader on a 4-year-old XP PC. Home office environment. Scanned/OCR'd PDFs (normally 1-10 pages) will be stored on a Windows Home Server, not a document management system.

Tired of slow, manual paper-shuffling I'm looking for suggestions of a suitable document scanner (with ADF?) to speed things up - budget max will be about £500.

TIA!

bonzer

Some of the cheap all in one printers come with sheet feeders these days. Sometimes these can be cheaper than standalone scanners. You mentioned 10 pages? Was this the max you wanted to do at once or were you looking for serious bulk scanning with hundreds of pages?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133596

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132880

tocsin

Hi, Bonzer!

Not looking at all-in-one (have a laserjet that works fine...), so just a replacement or addition to the Epson scanner (may still need that for old photos, though the immediate family are now all using digital cameras). I like the look of your second link, but wouldn't have the room unless I ditched the laserjet!

10 pages is the max size I estimate for scanning individual documents, etc. So there may be lots of these until I get caught up with the piles on desk and in filing cabinets.

Prices seem to be down a little (from when I last looked and said "too much!") - I've been looking today at the Canon DR2050C and the Epson GT-S50 which are both around the £350 mark. There seems to be little in the way of user reviews from a quick google, though, which I why I thought I would throw in the question here...

Thanks!

tocsin

Choice made - I went for the Epson. Very compact when not in active use, with foldy-out bits for input and output paths. Works well with ABBYY software, and is _much_ speedier than loading pages manually onto the old flatbed scanner.