Oysters8 said:
I'm considering a Fujitsu Scansnap 510 but it does not ship with a twain
driver. I'm a novice when it comes to understanding the intricacies of
scanners. I'd like to use the scanner with Omnipage Pro 14 and wondering
if it will work? Are there better ADF scanners out there that will work
with Omnipage Pro?
Don't know about others, but the ScanSnap is a thing for its own.
It is really fast an can scan both sides of a paper at once.
On the other hand it does not accept anything but plain single paper
sheets. It even chokes if the paper has been crumbled a little.
And worst of all: it only outputs JPG files. Either as single JPG files
(numbered) or as a PDF document with one JPG file per page.
Useful if you have to scan lots of documents for archieving, but ueless
for almost everything else (including OCR).
And since it does not output any usable image data (the JPG compression
is done inside the scanner!), it has no TWAIN module to access is from
anywhere but its own software.
The friend who has the ScanSnap 510 too has an old Agfa SnapScan 1236S
for the 'real' work.
For the SnapScan 600 there has been an optional ADFs, but since he was
unable to get one, he bought the ScanSnap for fast low-quality scanning.
Grossibaer
