It seems that scanner manufacturers who produce the scanners for the retail market have decided to optimize their scanners and supporting software for scanning color photographs and/or internet type graphics. This decision has made these scanners pretty much useless for document storage and archiving.
Document storage scanning requires that the scanner's software (the TWAIN driver) be configurable to store the documents as a black & white files as opposed to a color files. Full color files are ten to fifty times larger than the black & white files and rapidly consume precious hard disk storage space. In addition, the scanning process for color takes 4-5 times longer than black & white.
Also, most of these scanners can not handle the volume of paper most insurance agents need to scan. The bottom line is that the scanners readily available in retail stores just don't do the job the way our customers want it done.
The Fujitsu 4120C is a new, compact and affordable TWAIN compliant scanner
that will scan both sides of your document in one pass. It will scan up
to 50 sides per minute. The scanner is available from Internet vendors
for $800 to $900.
There are two, very good, high speed, scanners available from other sources that meet or exceed the requirements of most insurance agencies and The Agency Advantage Document Imaging.
The
Fujitsu fi-4120C is a new, compact and affordable TWAIN compliant
scanner that will scan both sides of your documents at the same time.
It will scan up to 50 sides per minute. You should be able to find
the4120C on the Internet for $800-$900.
The
Fujitsu ScanPartner15C
is an older model 15 page per minute TWAIN compliant single sided scanner with a 50 page automatic document
feeder. This scanner sells for around $800 from vendors on the
internet and includes the required SCSI
interface card.
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