Document scanning question

[mrFlibble47]

Does anyone work in an office that uses a document scanner to scan in multiple sheets (up to A3 size) - the kind of scanner that you can stick 50-100 sheets in the feeder rather than a single sheet at a time flatbed ??

 

[riaz]

Yes I do. We use a Canon IR C3880. Big hulk of a beast, is a copier, printer, scanner and fax all in one. Takes up to A3 size, produces extremely large files if you scan as pdf, specially if you scan in colour.

What I do, having scanned of the Canon, is to open the pdf in Adobe, then print it to pdf Factory Pro (extremely good prog that acts as a printer and creates pdf files). This shrinks the file sizes about 20 times +/-.

Any other info you might need?

 

[mrFlibble47]

Well, I have been trying to find out whether these document scanners tend to scan multiple sheets to separate files or to a single file (like pdf) with multiple pages.
We are looking for one that can do both ideally, or at least scan to multiple files.
What we don't want is one that only scans to a single pdf (or tiff) file which has multiple pages

 

[riaz]

You have the option to scan to a single doc or to multiple files (Canon calls it "separate into pages"). It can scan in pdf, tiff or jpg.

I just tested two sheets, one in b/w, the other with some handwritten scribbles in red ink. File sizes are 45k and 437k respectively.

 

[mrFlibble47]

What software are you using to do that? 'Canon CapturePerfect' (free with the scanner we're thinking of getting) or one of the expensive ones such as 'Kofax' or 'Quickscan Pro' which a salesman tried to tell me we'd need to buy as well as the scanner itself.

Thanks for your help

 

[riaz]

That I could not tell you, my friend. The incredible bulk comes preloaded with software, Canon techies come every so often and do mysterious things with screwdrivers, sprays and lint free cloth carried in massive cases, and that's it.

A quick Google tells me the IR stands for Image Runner, so that could be the software?