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Originally Posted by philodox
Are there any decent and cheap ones that will take a scan of each side and keep the pages in the right order?
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Check out the Scansnap S510 by Fujitsu for a little over $400. (You can check it out on Amazon but won't get the best price there or try the Fujitsu site.). I have the S500. It works very well and comes with good software. Scans two sides at once & you can load up to 50 pages of 20# paper. The better the paper quality (and the larger) the better the final results. Can scan up to 1200DPI in B&W but I've found that 600 DPI is the best compromise between scan quality & speed.
When not in use it has a very small foot print. It is not TWAIN compliant. Output (as I use it) is searchable PDF. I use Nuance's PDF Converter Assistant to create a RTF file for editing.
The only problem I have had was with very poor paper quality in some cheap paperbacks. That resulted in multiple page feeds on a few occasions but mainly it had numerous OCR errors due to the ink bleeding during the printing process.
If you don't mind destroying the book (i.e. taking the pages apart), I highly recommend it.