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Cost Effective Scan-to-FTP Products?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the network-imaging-devices dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "The law firm I work for uses a document routing system that picks up TIFFs or PDFs in server directory and processes them. We're using digital copiers with scan-to-FTP functionality to get them to the server's input directory. So, we need a cheap, easy to use unit for doing scan-to-FTP (or SMB). Copiers are just too expensive to sprinkle around a floor and PC-scanner solutions are just too big, complicated and time intensive for the users. I have found a couple possibilities doing web searches, but I'm still wondering what other Slashdot readers are using for this."

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  1. Any recent scanner with buttons by AwaxSlashdot · · Score: 4, Informative

    I own a Canon LIDE-50 scanner (2 years old, runs from USB power, fast and precise). It was bundled with a small utility and has 4 buttons on its front side.
    I can assign realy basic actions to each button with the utility:

    • Scan and print
    • Scan and mail
    • Scan and launch OCR
    • Scan and save to disc
    • Scan and launch application
    • ...

    For your problem, you can:

    • scan and save to mounted SMB share
    • scan and launch simple BAT file uploading via FTP the file passed as parameter

    Your workflow becomes:

    1. place document on scanner
    2. press button
    3. next!

    AWx
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  2. Re:new technology by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    they're called 'folders'. you put 'paper' in them.
    they can be 'boxed' or put in 'filing cabinets'.

    Regarding your "blog:"

    It's called a 'diary.' You get a 'pen,' you write in 'ink' in it. It can be secured with a tiny metal 'key,' or shared with your 'friends.' You can even clutch it to your 'breast' after you write your deepest, most personal 'thoughts' in it.

  3. Re:new technology by ian_mackereth · · Score: 5, Funny

    You need something to scan documents automatically? I think they're called "interns"...