Budget Document Scanner Recommendation ?

[henrycrun]

Need to replace our elderly HP document scanner with something faster

What scan speeds can I expect these days and what is the minimum resolution I should be using for legible documents (150dpi?) Budget is sub £100

Thanks in advance

[RizzoTheRat]

You thinking sheet feeder or single page flatbed? You can get an all in one printer and flatbed scanner for around £50 these days, but they're not fantastically fast scanners, my HP Photosmart probably manages about 4-5 pages a minute maximum.

I scan at 300dpi which works out around 500-600kb/page as a pdf (HP's software can generate the pdf as standard), I reckon it would be readable at a lot lower resolution but I've just left it on the default.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Sunday 24th January 11:27

[lestag]

henrycrun said:

Need to replace our elderly HP document scanner with something faster

What scan speeds can I expect these days and what is the minimum resolution I should be using for legible documents (150dpi?) Budget is sub £100

Thanks in advance

200dpi should be fine assume you mean text documents
have a look at the all-in-one printers on the HP site , they have a scanner included , sub 100 pounds if i recall correctly (HP site down ATM...)

[henrycrun]

Thanks peeps. I assuming that the auto pdf thing reduces the file size ?

[lestag]

henrycrun said:

Thanks peeps. I assuming that the auto pdf thing reduces the file size ?

No, it actually increases the file size slightly as it takes the raster file(TIFF, JPEG etc) and wraps it inside a PDF.
Most people have a PDF reader and are familiar with using it, so having the putput in PDF is conveniant for multipage documents

[henrycrun]

We have bought an HP G2710, but I'm not impressed. After warmed up and scanning on only 150dpi it still takes 20s per page from start to finish (even without a preview)
We bought this to do a job with a lot of scanning and it really is time consuming. Can anyone recommend something faster ?