A Serious Scanner

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Hey Tek Syndicate,

I've landed myself a work-from-home job scanning (/digitizing) a workplace's paper records. They have many cupboards full of documents and a budget to buy/lease a HARDCORE scanner. I've done my research and found the "HP L2723A Scanjet 3000" but unlike PC hardware I have less of an idea what's going on. This job is going to drink up my free-time in the summer. Therefore I would be massively grateful to the community if the helped me choose the fastest scanner that meets the these modest criteria.

- Is FAST and therefore probably sheet-fed

- Can scan A4, large postcards ect (not A3 or anything)

- Quality only needs to be readable. Grey-scale scanning

- Can't be massively expensive (over $1500) unless it is practical to rent each summer

- Does anything out there have an automatic/customizeable naming system?

 

Thanks again!

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Completely out of my area of knowledge :P

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424955,00.asp

Maybe that could help you get an idea, alot of the terminology goes over my head but atleast its a start point and seems to do everything you need it too.

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Thanks Namix, looks good. Just doubled the ppm :D

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http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-fi-6130Z-Sheet-Fed-Document-PA03630-B055/dp/B006MI6M7E/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1383794230&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=fujitsu+fi6210  This is upper middle class. It is a tank and can scan odd sizes. Totally standard Twain interface if you want to get fancy. Has hardware (well quasi) skew correction, staple/punched hole removal and other visual cleanup by the scanner hardware/driver. 

Its not unusual for one of these units to last 20-30k pages. Oh, it can also scan both sides simultaneously iirc. Or models very close to this one for like $1.50 more.

 

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Tanks Wendell! I like the sound of this :)