Very creative way to get your pages into a Multi-page TIFF file! However, without a large and reliable document feeder this task would be a very boring and long babysitting job.
As long as you're not expecting to OCR the professor's handwriting you should be able to do this task fairly quickly. Under an hour after hardware is configured. This Microtek scanner http://tinyurl.com/ys5dk is a good value. I have had terrible experiences http://tinyurl.com/2zsor with HP document feeders.
If you have access to Microsoft Office XP Professional or later you could use the Microsoft Office Document Scanning program to easily scan all pages into one large multi-page TIFF document. In turn, the TIFF document can be processed into PDF files with the free Paper Capture plugin for Adobe Acrobat (not sure if the paper capture plugin is available on Mac).
There are probably Open Source software tools available to do the above mentioned process, anyone care to chime in? Anyone care to chime in and suggest Mac software to accomplish the same?
Scanning at 1 bit 300dpi would be ideal (for speed and final doc size) but if the professor's notes are in varying shages you may be required to scan at 8bit.
I know this is easy because last month I used my Epson Perfection 2400 scanner with my 1.8GHz Windows/Office XP laptop to scan 130 pages in 50 minutes. The result was a multi-page TIFF file that was easily converted to PDF. This was accomplished without an automatic document feeder. I also was using a USB 2.0 connection which I believe helped speed things up.
Good luck.
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Very creative way to get your pages into a Multi-page TIFF file! However, without a large and reliable document feeder this task would be a very boring and long babysitting job.
As long as you're not expecting to OCR the professor's handwriting you should be able to do this task fairly quickly. Under an hour after hardware is configured. This Microtek scanner http://tinyurl.com/ys5dk is a good value. I have had terrible experiences http://tinyurl.com/2zsor with HP document feeders. If you have access to Microsoft Office XP Professional or later you could use the Microsoft Office Document Scanning program to easily scan all pages into one large multi-page TIFF document. In turn, the TIFF document can be processed into PDF files with the free Paper Capture plugin for Adobe Acrobat (not sure if the paper capture plugin is available on Mac). There are probably Open Source software tools available to do the above mentioned process, anyone care to chime in? Anyone care to chime in and suggest Mac software to accomplish the same? Scanning at 1 bit 300dpi would be ideal (for speed and final doc size) but if the professor's notes are in varying shages you may be required to scan at 8bit. I know this is easy because last month I used my Epson Perfection 2400 scanner with my 1.8GHz Windows/Office XP laptop to scan 130 pages in 50 minutes. The result was a multi-page TIFF file that was easily converted to PDF. This was accomplished without an automatic document feeder. I also was using a USB 2.0 connection which I believe helped speed things up. Good luck.