I want to collate a mass of papers mostly typewritten and I want to be able to access their content using the "Find" facility.


At the moment I have a CanoScan 8400F which has and indeed is, given good service but I wonder if there is anything available that is faster. I have read about scanning machines that one can load with a number of sheets to be scanned but don’t think that the papers I want scanned are amenable to that sort of treatment so I suspect they will have to be scanned singly.


Does anyone have any suggestions?

Unless something has changed drastically from the last time I tried to scan documents...it's not as simple as you seem to make it sound.

Scanning photos...scanners do great at that. IMO, there is a problem with scanning documents with accuracy...my experince is that the OCR software has never been good enough.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controll...p;modelid=10242

Some opinions at http://www.scannergalaxy.com/best_doc_scanner.cfm.

Louis

Yes, you are quite right about the OCR acuracy as I am still finding in a very large document that I am having to proof read line by line but I suspect there is no other option if one wants a "find" facility.