Re: Fujitsu Scansnap SV600 scanner

James, Roger - thanks for your comments.
 
Re resolution - I've dealt with some IA scansets that Irfanview has
reported to be 96dpi.  My Abbyy 6.0 Pro upconverts them to 300dpi and
seems to handle them OK.
 
Re its price - in Canada, it's about $600, which is about twice the
price of my Plustek Opticbook 3600.  For the amount of scanning I do,
the Opticbook was a time-saving bargain (15 seconds/scan) compared to my
previous scanner's minute or more.  Aside from any resolution questions,
if the Scansnap can do a scan in 4-5 seconds, it would eventually pay
for itself in my time saved.
 
I've looked into DIY scanners occasionally over the last couple of
years, but it involves more space and complexity than I have a taste
for, and they all involve manual involvement (turning pages, pushing
buttons), which is something I'm trying to minimize or do away with.
 
If wishes were horses, I'd have one of those robo-scanners that you put
a book into, set things up, and it turns pages itself, but my budget
doesn't run to five and six figures, which is what they seem to cost.
(Several years ago, DPCanada was negotiating with someone for such a
scanner, but it didn't work out for reasons unknown to me.)  
 
I've got stacks of pre-1922 books that aren't in IA, and more stacks of
post-1922 books that are public domain in Canada.  And with Canada being
a life+50 country, more authors enter its public domain each year, e.g.
C.S. Lewis (Narnia Chronicles) in 2014, Winston S. Churchill and Thomas
B. Costain in 2016, etc, etc.  So many books, so little time...
 
Al
 
 

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Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Fujitsu Scansnap SV600 scanner


What concerned me was the resolution it would produce. I know Abbyy is
okay with 300 dpi, The SV600 optical resolution horizontal is from 285
dpi to 218 dpi. Vertical it is from 283 dpi to 152 dpi. Optical
resolution differs due to different scanning angle on the same document.
Depending on the typeface size, that may not be enough. 


In a review at
http://geekdad.com/2013/10/review-fujitsu-scansnap-sv600-overhead-scanne
r/
it says you can select the resolution to be 300 or 600, so are they
doing some interpolating? The screenshot there even shows 1200 dpi for
b/w. All that from something that's optically as low as 152 dpi? Smoke
and mirrors, perhaps.


-Roger Frank

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