[ale] [ALE] Linux happy scanner with dual sided sheet feed?

[Tom Freeman]

There is one photocopier in the department, and it will scan to usb! It is 
a royal pain in the posterier (sp?) to use, with usage codes etc and a 
painful location. I can utilize it for today's quiz, and might settle for 
it, location and all. We will see...

Thank you for the prod - I was being a little selective without good 
reason.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Alex Carver wrote:

> Do any of your department photocopiers have scan to email?  Many new
> ones do (assuming IT has plugged them into the network) and they can
> typically handle that many sheets of paper.  You could just alphabetize
> the tests, run them through the copier to scan to email (as a PDF) and
> then store the PDF as an archive for that week's set of tests (without
> bursting it into separate files).  If you need to recover a single test
> you can extract those pages later otherwise you just leave it as one
> large file.
>
> On 2015-02-10 03:35, Tom Freeman wrote:
>> Vuescan looks interesting and it is something to definitely keep in mind.
>>
>> At the moment, it is the hardware part of the equation which needs
>> sorting. The material to be captured is quizzes and tests, which are
>> printed double sided and normally stapled for 25 students. Essentially
>> 50 to 250 sheets per run which is a fair bit of work to run by hand.
>> Adding the staple removal and reassembly steps to a project that runs at
>> least once a week, my time cost appears loaded to the physical process
>> of scanning.
>>
>> Thank you for pointing out what looks to be a fine software product for
>> when making that part of the process becomes more important.
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2015, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> You may want to look at Vuescan.  It's a commercial product that gives
>>> you oodles of options for scanning.  I think it's in the $40 range.
>>> It's so much easier than any of the free stuff I've tried. There's a
>>> free trial for I think a month or so.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>> On 02/07/2015 11:25 AM, Tom Freeman wrote:
>>>>  I'm not certain how to properly research this for myself, and my
>>>> efforts
>>>>  to date haven't suggested anything intelligent. As the Subject: line
>>>>  suggests - I want to locate, then own, a scanner which will scan both
>>>>  sides of a sheet taken from a sheet feeder with the additional need of
>>>>  the device being essentially plug & play in Linux (specifically
>>>> Fedora 21
>>>>  and/or Ubuntu 14.04).
>>>
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