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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's the one I was thinking of getting; how well does it work for book scanning? Does its default scan software allow for custom page sizes, and does it easily scan to multipage tiff?
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I have mainly used it for scanning documents (that's all a book is, right?) and as long as you don't have crinkled pages or other things that could make pages stick together, it feeds 'em right on through and does it at a rate of about one page in 5 or so seconds. The official spec is 20ppm @ 200dpi. ABBYY FineReader default is 300dpi or 600dpi. The thing I like about the 2050C is the almost straight paper path, which is somewhat rare. Scanning heavy paper stock is much easier with this unit than those that make the paper bend around, almost in a U shape.
As for the software, I haven't used it since I have ABBYY FineReader 10, which kills just about everything else for OCR duties. It's astounding how accurate FR can be with a good scan. I do have the bundled software, which is OmniPage Pro, I believe, and can try that out.