Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork [LWN.net]

Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

Posted Mar 14, 2016 20:03 UTC (Mon) by ersi (guest, #64521)
Parent article: Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

> Scanning, itself, is close to being treated as a solved problem on Linux desktops. If the goal is merely to scan images of paper documents, there are loads of existing applications to do just that.

I'd really like to get more information about the scanning part.

Sure, there's plenty of applications - but finding a decent scanner that is decently supported and suited for the type of scanning you're trying to do.. is hard! At least when it comes to scanning receipts, instead of full size papers.

Does anyone have any scanner and technique recommendations for scanning receipts?

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Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

Posted Mar 14, 2016 20:56 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

I like the Fujitsu ScanSnap s1300i. Its tiny footprint means its sheet feeder is not as easy to adjust as larger scanners but it's a tradeoff I'd make again -- it works fine and it spends 99.9% of its life turned off. SANE works.

I scanned an 800 page double-sided tech document in a few hours with it. While working, every few minutes drop another 20ish pages on the feeder. It can take some abuse.

The color is not as nice as the flatbed but for grayscale it's great.

Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

Posted Mar 14, 2016 21:01 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Oop, re-read your question. I don't do many receipts, mostly documents. And I've been mostly using it on a Mac because Linux OCR was terrible last I tried a few years ago. Just couldn't get it to work well.

Looks like I'll have to give it another shot.

Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork

Posted Mar 15, 2016 0:07 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

I recently bought a Canon P-208II for scanning documents and receipts and it works really well. It works with SANE (although I use the Windows software it came with because it gave me better image quality out of the box).