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Finally changed for us a few months ago after about 8 years of being happily printer-free. One too many trips to FedEx to print 2 pages of something, can't even

Finally changed for us a few months ago after about 8 years of being happily printer-free. One too many trips to FedEx to print 2 pages of something, can't even remember what it was - probably a Groupon for a cash-only store that would only accept it in print. Also I really wanted a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper piling up around the house. We got an HP OfficeJet Pro 8625 and have been pretty happy with it on Linux, Windows 10 and Mac.

B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
> a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year. What with all the smartphone apps which will provide you with PDFs of the casually snapped pics of whatever paper pieces you feel like shooting. (In the unlikely case the gummint doesn't already have all the info you may need, and you can't just ask for a copy. Which is mostly the case nowadays.)
- mmel 11y ago
  What smartphone app will produce an archival quality scan with searchable OCR'd text from a casually snapped photo of a piece of paper?
  - grahamburger 11y ago
    Or better yet, of a stack of paper. If you can find me that I'll gladly pay for it. Well, at least up to the around half the cost of the sheet-feed scanner/printer.
- grahamburger 11y ago
  > That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year. Lol true :) the main reason is when I have a big stack of paper that I want to trash but I'm not sure if any of it will be relevant down the road. It's a pain to go through each page and snap a picture, with a sheet feed scanner I just set it on there and push a button. The most relevant example I can think of is hospital bills - we had a baby last year and my wife was also in the hospital for an unrelated surgery for a few days, and all of the bills come on paper mail. It's nice to trash the paper and still have the record.

B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago

> a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year. What with all the smartphone apps which will provide you with PDFs of the casually snapped pics of whatever paper pieces you feel like shooting. (In the unlikely case the gummint doesn't already have all the info you may need, and you can't just ask for a copy. Which is mostly the case nowadays.)

mmel 11y ago
What smartphone app will produce an archival quality scan with searchable OCR'd text from a casually snapped photo of a piece of paper?
- grahamburger 11y ago
  Or better yet, of a stack of paper. If you can find me that I'll gladly pay for it. Well, at least up to the around half the cost of the sheet-feed scanner/printer.
grahamburger 11y ago
> That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year. Lol true :) the main reason is when I have a big stack of paper that I want to trash but I'm not sure if any of it will be relevant down the road. It's a pain to go through each page and snap a picture, with a sheet feed scanner I just set it on there and push a button. The most relevant example I can think of is hospital bills - we had a baby last year and my wife was also in the hospital for an unrelated surgery for a few days, and all of the bills come on paper mail. It's nice to trash the paper and still have the record.