I'm speaking in the context of business use of these scanners, for a business receiving hundreds to thousands of documents per day that require scanning, and the images are sent to downstream business systems or other electronic destinations, e.g., email, for further processing and/or storage. I do imaging capture development and provide support for scanner setup for a large IT organization with both Fujitsu and Canon workgroup/departmental scanners, as well as several super high speed Kodak scanners that scan 100,000 pages per day. But my company is still actively using the scanner models/range of models involved. Capture Perfect can output in G4 Tiff compression." Canon comes bundled with Capture Perfect. Typically this is done through the scanner software. "The scanner does not provide the file compression natively unless is has a bundled image processing board. We require a scanner that supports LZW or TTN2 TIFF compression, preferably both. The ability to add network functions is a unique Epson capability.Īll are designed for thousands of pages per day, up to 6000 pages/day for the DS-860. For much less money, they could pair any of our scanners (including the DS-860 mentioned above, or the 30 ppm DS-520) with the optional network module to direct the scans to network locations or share the scanner across multiple workstations. The other model they compare to is the Canon ScanFront 300. The DS-860 was chosen as their Pick-of-the-Year by Buyers Labs, citing high reliability, reporting that they scanned 30000 pages with only two misfed pages. And it's usually a much better value than equivalent Canon or Fujitsu models. We have a very advanced paper feed mechanism to reduce the instances of double feeds. For high volumes, the 65 page per minute speed is very useful. We do need the scanner to support LZW or TTN2 TIFF compression, preferably both. Īlex, Our equivalent to the Canon M160II is the DS-860.
The main issue we appear to be having is that these are sometimes dragging through 2-3 pages in bulk which causes a lot of havoc on our systems.Įssentially, each page has a barcode on, and software scans for the bar code in the tiff image to attach it to a certain account with purchase orders and so forth, but they have to be in the correct order.ĭoes anyone have any recommendations for a good scanner, within the range of a threw thousand (not tens of thousands), that is reliable and doesn't drag multiple pages through? As per an on-going process over the next few years, they would like some reliable scanners that can scan around 500 pages per day into a compress TIFF image form.Ĭurrently we've purchased the following scanners My company is now introducing a new CRM and other system to help the business go paperless.