The company I work at scans large amounts of documents to PDF format on a daily basis. Depending on the volume some people do, we use either a Canon DR-3060 or DR-5020 document scanner. These will scan both sides of a page simultaneously, clean up the image (despeckle and deskew) and convert them into TIF or PDF all on the fly. They're fast too. Between 20 and 50 pages per minute. Only problem is that they're expensive.
For your budget, you may be able to afford the Canon DR-2080C which goes for around $600. It has all the features of the more expensive ones, but it's meant for smaller volumes like what you're dealing with. With that, you'd be able to scan 100 pages into a pdf document in around 5 minutes.
C# is already a very cleaned up version of C++. If you turn off garbage collection, add C++-style new and delete keywords, some modern templating syntax, and a compiler, you get the next version of C++.
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The company I work at scans large amounts of documents to PDF format on a daily basis. Depending on the volume some people do, we use either a Canon DR-3060 or DR-5020 document scanner. These will scan both sides of a page simultaneously, clean up the image (despeckle and deskew) and convert them into TIF or PDF all on the fly. They're fast too. Between 20 and 50 pages per minute. Only problem is that they're expensive.
For your budget, you may be able to afford the Canon DR-2080C which goes for around $600. It has all the features of the more expensive ones, but it's meant for smaller volumes like what you're dealing with. With that, you'd be able to scan 100 pages into a pdf document in around 5 minutes.
C# is already a very cleaned up version of C++. If you turn off garbage collection, add C++-style new and delete keywords, some modern templating syntax, and a compiler, you get the next version of C++.