How well does this work scanning in more than one line at a time, say a 20-line paragraph?
842785
It works okay, sometimes the text can get garbled as you move towards the spine of bound documents. Overall, it is pretty reliable for compiling excerpts of documents.
842786
Scanning is poor. For instance, it does not scan the whole sentence or scans the sentence above. It does not work well when working in a hurry.
842787
It doesnt...3 lines max before it starts to flash. Its also very sensitive if u dont hold it right.
842788
Only one line at a time, but scanning one line only takes you 2 seconds, so I think 20 lines is not a problem for you.
842789
The pen scanner does not store and transcribe multiple lines. It reads in only one line at a time and then immediately transcribes the text and places it into your document.
1514383
Yes, you can scan and fax multi pages. No need to do one at a time. You just stack 'em and they feed through. I really love this one so far
522860
YES & YES and it does a reasonably good job, too. I mainly use the Scan to PDF & JPEG options and have been really pleased with the results. Scanning is slow, but for a portable unit is does many things well and there have to be a few sacrifices for the portability sake. Keep in mind that it runs just fine on battery mode too... just can not go wrong with this unit !!!
1897420
Scans multiple pages no issue. Even can accommodate turning over the stack and scanning the other side. When it saves the file, the stack can be scanned and saved as a double sided copy. Works well. I have done close to 20 pages. No problem. I bought it to be more of a scan and send than a printer. I love it as a scanner both documents and pictures.
2212857
NO you cannot do that. The document feeder is designed to hold 10 pages. When your scanner completes scanning a document the software will prompt for a name one document at a time. There is no batch scanning feature.
2140274
Perhaps 10 using premium paper. If you load too many, it jams. I need to scan white premium paper containing photos and load 10 at a time to prevent jams. Then I load 10 more using the "add pages" button. It works but is not as efficient as our high volume scanner at the office. The HP costs a third of the price and does a nice job for these small at home projects. I would not use it for a business requiring high volume scanning.
1909265
It will scan the full scanning bed. I scan as many as 9 items at once, but of course it depends on the size. However, if you want to view them individually it's easier and quicker to scan them one at a time, rather than breaking up a single composite scan into individual elements.Hope this helps.
794973
Yes, this scanner makes it easy to scan such things from books. However, remember the highest resolution you get is 600DPI. If that's adequate then you'd love the portability of this device.
856294
If you are quick enough to slip one page in right behind the next as it is scanning it will. Otherwise it makes it separate pdf's.
2096514
It seems, from my use of the scanner, that this'd work just fine, though you'd have to attend the scan or else check the file to ensure that all pages were inclued (the scanner occasionally grabs more than one page at once). Not to state the obvious, but try it first with a book you can replace easily :-) Also, note the advice from the poster before me (don't get binding glue/debris in the scanner).
537249
No...the scanning area is set for letter-size paper. I scan a lot of larger documents by scanning in sections and then using PhotoShop to 'cut & paste' them together into one document. We use three of these scanners at my office, and they have proven their worth.
512351
I purchased an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. It scans slides, pictures and negatives. The scanner takes 4 slides at a time. Worked great. I had about 1500 slides from the 60s. The Kaiser Mini let me sort thru them quickly. Was a great winter project.
1309586
This is a good casual scanner, I've tried often to do multi-page documents and find it to be more trouble than it is worth - I then go to my multifunction printer which has a scanner. If you anticipate a lot of multipage documents, I would not suggest this unit, though it can do it, it is just a painful process to get it to work adequately.
1092025
You can do this with the capture software on a Mac (I have never used it with Windows, but assume it functions similarly). Simultanioisly scan of multiple documents is definitely not a hardware based function on this scanner.
305109
Yes. The scanning function works really well for multiple and 2-sided documents scanned to a single file.
787670
I just scanned 28 pages in about 2 minutes (I say about because I didn't use a timer with seconds) - my settings were Black & White, 400 DPI, Searchable OCR, single sided. I regularly scan documents ranging from a couple pages to 60 - 80 pages and almost never have a skip or miss. I mostly scan directly to Adobe Acrobat X Standard rather than the Brother software but I don't think that affects the speed. I like Adobe Acrobat Standard since it is easier to work with the documents afterwards (and it does a better job of auto sensing portrait vs landscape as I often have a mix of documents).
1637816
No, it only has one sensor so it will only scan one side at a time. The software does allow you to combine those scans into a single document.