Is this a flatbed scanner or does it only scan via document feed?
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It does have a document feeder, not sure how many pages it will handle at one time. Not related to scanning, I do have problems with the paper feed feeding multiple (sometimes up to five pages at a time) when printing though, this is very problematic if you have a limited amount of paper (ie, specialty paper).
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It does both well. the entire top hinges up along the back side and scans 11x17 in one pass.
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It's a flatbed scanner, so only one sheet at a time. It will not scan 8.5x11 sheets
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Hi, As much as I've used my scanner it has always only worked when connected to my computer. I have the portable model and I'm not sure how the desktop works.
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The scanner is one feature of the printer that I like. It scans two sided and is fast. It does not by default give searchable pdfs. That probably requires setting up OCR software.
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With the portable scanner, it's one page at a time. I don't know about the desktop scanner. I believe it's multiple pages.
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No, it only has one sensor so it will only scan one side at a time. The software does allow you to combine those scans into a single document.
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Alas, the scanner is an input device you need it connected to a computer to function. It's the application (scansnap manager and/or Adobe acrobat) that are the brains of the operation, the scanner is the work-horse. The scanner has no ability to somehow store data on itself. No magic wands, no hocus-pocus, this is simply a scanner.
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Towards the end of this Youtube video you can see that this unit does in fact have a flatbed scanner. You can easilyscan to an email or another account to manage the files easier.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zNIyVzyDac
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The one I bought never worked right, it would not feed the document through. I threw it away. And got a thing called cam scanner for my Android phone. It's the only scanner I've needed in 4 years. No need for Windows and it does ocr and allows me to save as pdf so I can do whatever I want with it all from my phone or tablet.
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You have the option of sheet feed or old fashioned way. I need to verify again but I believe scanning jpg you cannot do sheet feed.
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This is a terrible product and failed after about 2 uses. I recommend you buy another portable scanner. To answer your question: these type of scanners only scan one side at a time.
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Thank you for your quick reply. What about the MF4690? I posted a similar question regarding that one. It seems much newer. Does it happen to have a function that somehow supports duplex scanning, without having to *manually* re-order the pages?
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Manual feed I'm pretty sure. Problem I had is that it would lock up with funny colors on the screen whenever I tried to scan - right out of the box, so I returned it.
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Yes and no. It isn't a true document scanner so you are manually scanning each and every page. The main point of interest is the optical character application (Adobe's ABBYY FineReader Version 9). This converts scanned text to either PDF or Word format. It's not a bad program for pamphlets and pure text documents. However I was hoping to scan a workshop manual for my car - that was a Fail for reasons that have more to do with Word than with FineReader. In short I am now looking for document scanning software because nothing included with the scanner was up to the task I was attempting.
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Hi Vaughn, It is a 1-sided scanner, although the software allows you to connect subsequent scans into one document.
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Yes, it scans front & back as the page passes through in 1 pass. 1 2 sided page will result in a 2, single page pdf.
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It is auto feed once you put in the edge of item to scan it pulls it in and though to the other side. It is a great scanner I have scanned so many old photos images look good