This might be a bit of a strange request, but can anybody recommend a good quality, durable (battery and general lifespan) and reliable document and/or book scanner?
If you need to occasionally scan a few pages, use your phone. There are great apps that will instantly produce print-ready PDFs. As long as your phone has a half-decent camera, you'll get perfectly usable results.
If you need to digitise large quantities of documents, use a Scansnap iX500. It does 25ppm full duplex and you can get spare parts at a reasonable price. If you need to digitise large quantities of books that you don't mind destroying, take them to a printing shop and have them cut off the spine on their guillotine. You can then run the loose pages through the iX500.
If you need to digitise large quantities of books that you can't destroy, you'll want a dedicated book scanner. The Scansnap SV600 is acceptable, but the Archivist Quill is the cheapest serious option.
>>25895 >If you need to occasionally scan a few pages, use your phone. There are great apps that will instantly produce print-ready PDFs. As long as your phone has a half-decent camera, you'll get perfectly usable results.
This. On top of simply spitting out images, some apps will even do cool things like pick out the edges of the document and distort the image so it has the right proportions, and then attempt to read it.
