[ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Kinkos/Fedex is still around for the few things you don't want buy equipment on.

Some photocopiers have IP and scan to PDF capabilities.    Here we can do that and it emails the PDF to us.    The only downside is the scan is an image rather than text.   I've not played with OCR software on any of the scans I've done that way simply because all I'm doing is saving soft copies (usually to send on to someone else).    


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tom Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:56 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?

There is one photocopier in the department, and it will scan to usb! It is a royal pain in the posterier (sp?) to use, with usage codes etc and a painful location. I can utilize it for today's quiz, and might settle for it, location and all. We will see...

Thank you for the prod - I was being a little selective without good reason.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Alex Carver wrote:

> Do any of your department photocopiers have scan to email?  Many new 
> ones do (assuming IT has plugged them into the network) and they can 
> typically handle that many sheets of paper.  You could just 
> alphabetize the tests, run them through the copier to scan to email 
> (as a PDF) and then store the PDF as an archive for that week's set of 
> tests (without bursting it into separate files).  If you need to 
> recover a single test you can extract those pages later otherwise you 
> just leave it as one large file.
>
> On 2015-02-10 03:35, Tom Freeman wrote:
>> Vuescan looks interesting and it is something to definitely keep in mind.
>>
>> At the moment, it is the hardware part of the equation which needs 
>> sorting. The material to be captured is quizzes and tests, which are 
>> printed double sided and normally stapled for 25 students. 
>> Essentially
>> 50 to 250 sheets per run which is a fair bit of work to run by hand.
>> Adding the staple removal and reassembly steps to a project that runs 
>> at least once a week, my time cost appears loaded to the physical 
>> process of scanning.
>>
>> Thank you for pointing out what looks to be a fine software product 
>> for when making that part of the process becomes more important.
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2015, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> You may want to look at Vuescan.  It's a commercial product that 
>>> gives you oodles of options for scanning.  I think it's in the $40 range.
>>> It's so much easier than any of the free stuff I've tried. There's a 
>>> free trial for I think a month or so.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>> On 02/07/2015 11:25 AM, Tom Freeman wrote:
>>>>  I'm not certain how to properly research this for myself, and my 
>>>> efforts  to date haven't suggested anything intelligent. As the 
>>>> Subject: line  suggests - I want to locate, then own, a scanner 
>>>> which will scan both  sides of a sheet taken from a sheet feeder 
>>>> with the additional need of  the device being essentially plug & 
>>>> play in Linux (specifically Fedora 21  and/or Ubuntu 14.04).
>>>
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