Experiences about Twain drivers

polo · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 10

Hello,
iam now doing a survey, on which end i should recommend a scanner for our aplication.

I have come through the forum and noticed that there were some suggestions to HP drivers. So i guess that not every vendor has a good twain drivers.

Have any of you some experiences with for example canon or fujitsu scanners? Is HP really that bad?

Can we say that some wendor writes better drivers than others?

Thanks.

gabe · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

if you provided a little more information - what kind of application, what kind of volume, what capabilities you're using,.. you might get a better response.

In my experience not all Hp drivers are bad I've had a lot of success with some of their scanners. In general I prefer Kodak scanners and personally think they make the best drivers or I should say their i30 - i65 devices - their newer devices I have no experience with. I've also recently had some real pleasant experiences with a fujitsu device. Canon I have no direct experience with but search the forum for Canon and you get a rather depressing experiences.

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polo · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 10

Hi Gabe, thanks for reply.

Scanner should be used for scanning documents in to our digital archive.
At first stage we need to scan our paper archive (20k+ of papers), so we can move it to backup location.
Second stage is daily use. Scanning icomming mail etc...

Some of the content we need to work with is on paper with low g/m^2 so iam afraid that we cant use Automatic Document Feeder only but also a the flatbelt.

I was thinking of using 200dpi grayscale images, there is also requirement on some speed but i think with theese settings (200 dpi grey) every scanner would be fast enough. Optionaly there might be some barcode recognition process from image (iam curently working on this)

I was looking at the Kodak devices esp i30 / i40 scanner but it lacks the flatbelt so i guess theese are out of game Sad

I was also looking at Fujitsu fi5015c which has flatbelt + document feeder but here iam afraid of not beeing able to controll ADF over twain.

Also i tried to work with older canon scanner and i was not very pleased becouse the twain driver was not able to controll the feeder (it doesnt return in supported caps).

Thanks.

gabe · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:55 am Post subject:

The Fujitsu I have worked with (and heard about were) offered more support than you might think if you use customdsdata, especially if you don't mind hacking the customdsdata string.

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Thierry

polo · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 10

Hello sir!
Thank you a lot.

I will to try get Kodak, if it fails i will go for others you mentioned.

Thank you a lot.
P.

Thierry · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:43 am Post subject:

polo · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 10

Hi,
iam already using the i40 driver in simulation mode. Also Twain sample source, but the sample source has limited capabilities, kodak is much better.

You are trying to say that i can generaly switch any driver to simulation mode?

Have a good day.
p.

Thierry · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: