[Discuss] Document scanning services in town?

[Murray Strome]

Peter Scott wrote:
> I just discovered the prices of scanners with document feeders.  Does 
> anyone want to recommend a service in town that accepts loose letter 
> seized documents for 300 dpi grayscale scanning to JPEG/PDF/TIFF?  I'd 
> prefer a place where I could do my own feeding of the scanner rather 
> than paying someone else to do it.
>
I think both Office Depot and Staples offer this service. Other 
possibilities are Monk's and Island Blueprint.  I looked into something 
something similar last year, but what I wanted to scan were colour pages 
12"X12", and only Island Blueprint could do it, and that was pretty 
expensive. I ended up scanning the left and right halves of the pages on 
my Epson flatbed scanner and stitching the two halves together using GIMP.

If you have access to a Windows 98 computer, I could loan you (or sell 
cheap) my Logitek Colour Page Scanner, which has a sheet feeder.  It 
connects to a parallel port and has a gimmick that lets you have a 
printer connected to the same port. I think that will work with most HP 
parallel printers, but it does NOT work with the Okidata OL600e B&W LED 
printer.

The last I checked (which was well over a year ago now), there were no 
drivers for either Windows XP or LINUX.  That could have changed. I 
think I have the manual and Windows 98 installation disks for it.

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If Peter does not want the scanner, is anyone else interested?  I was 
thinking that about $20 would be a fair price for it.

Murray