I am looking for a way to do mass scanning of documents (scan a lot of documents, each consisting of one or more pages) quickly.
Here's some elaboration on what I am talking about (long, can skip this section if you want) I think that the "go to" for this is a $250+ scanner that just scans fast. Steps are:
1) load document
2) press scan button the on the scanner
3) repeat
The documents will keep getting added to a folder on your computer.
I have even seen enhancements to this. For example, first sorting your documents into 2 piles-- single page documents and multipage documents. Next, load all of the single page documents and scan with a setting "each page as a separate PDF" in the scanner software turned on. Even with the sorting step, this should outperform.
So anyway, I am looking for an efficient method, but on more of a budget. Also, would be great if it would work in Linux instead of having to use a Windows virtual machine. The scanner does not have to be a network scanner. I am thinking one of these 2 methods:
1- scanner able to scan documents one after the other while "holding" the destination setting. The destination could be a folder on my computer, a USB thumb drive connected to the printer, or email server that stays all local (I don't know the first thing about an email server & want to keep it simple so maybe not an option).
2- scan a large stack of documents and then divide it up into parts (separate PDFs) using minimal mouse clicks/ commands.
How can I achieve something along these lines?
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