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Why limit the paper length on a mobile scanner?

  •  10-30-2009, 2:01 PM

    Why limit the paper length on a mobile scanner?

    I would like to propose a feature where one could scan in papers of arbitrarily length with the portable scanner. In research, paper charts are sometimes still used and cutting them is not allowed. I could scan on a flatbed over and over again and then merge, but it seems like the mobile scanner would be the PERFECT device for scanning them in their entirety. I tried this already with my Neat scanner. Unfortunately, after the max paper length the scanner advances the paper for awhile without scanning before allowing me to do another scan. While I could pullback the paper and then continue scanning my bet is that this would damage the scanner.

     

    I propose having the following solution:

     

    1. A toggle where you indicate that the paper is longer than the max length.

    2. If activated, the scanner scans until the end of paper is found.

    3. The scan is either one uber large file or the program dices up the complete scan into a number of pages.

    I think this would be a great feature to implement and see no reason--given the space of modern hard drives and large amounts of RAM--why the hardware or software could not solve this problem.

    I would happily beta-test as I have around 20 lengthy chart recordings that need to be digitized ASAP. :-) 

     

    Regards,

     

    smb 

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