RE: Re: OT Document archiving...continued

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Malcolm,

Sorry for the late posting, been next door fitting some phone points
whilst=
he went out with his girlfriend for a meal!!

There was much discussion recently about this and I eventually bought an
HP=
scanjet 5550c.

After a fair bit of mucking around trying to change settings I have now
got=
it down to a fine art and am well pleased with it.

I have not yet found out how to scan one document at a time using the ADF
b=
ut once it has scanned into PaperPort all you have to do is right click
and=
select "unstack" job done....mind you on mine I then have to
right click a=
gain and select redraw thumbnails, not a problem.

One thing I was advised on was to upgrade PP to v9 as it can scan straight
=
to an acrobat file, excellent.

Go for it, you know it makes sense...

B.=20

-----Original Message-----
From: m_surgenor [mailto:malcolm@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 February 2004 20:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT Document archiving...continued


I want to replace my trusty HP scanner with one with an ADF.  I've=20
always had HP scanners and have never been let down by them. Looking=20
at the specs, the 5550C looks ideal. HP's web site has a=20
questionnaire that chooses a scanner for you based on your specific=20
requirements - it came back with the 5550C for me.  :-)

Looking through the review sites though they're quite mixed with some=20
raving about it but equally others complaining about poor quality=20
picture scans and jamming ADF's.  However one review concerns me in=20
that they complained of only being able to use the ADF to scan=20
multiple pages to one file.  It isn't able to take 35 pages and end=20
up with 35 seperate files.  Can anyone who has one of these confirm=20
if that is the case and if it's a great hardship?

I also note that most on-line etailers are selling this around the=20
=A3250 mark. Amazon at the moment have it at just =A3163 which seems a=20
bargain?

Malcolm

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Brian G. Reynolds"=20
<brian.g.reynolds@n...> wrote:
> Sorry to bring this up again.....
>=20
> I am now a proud owner of an HP scanjet 5550c with an ADF.
>=20
> It comes with PaperPort 8 and some other programs I have not yet=20
played with....
>=20
> So far I have managed to scan in some documents and save them as=20
PaperPort documents, and they are HUGE!
>=20
> I then tried another way and they were about 500KB, in the right=20
direction, I then played with the "scan to file" button which
saves=20
the document to an Adobe PDF file of slightly bigger (by a couple of=20
kilobits) file.
>=20
> What would you experienced users recommend I use? I am not too=20
worried about HDD space but want as small as possible but still=20
readable!
>=20
> I am still experimenting but thought some of you might have already=20
done what I am trying to do?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> B.



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