Basic Home Scanner?

[Quirk]

I have hanging file full of old tax returns, college term papers and assorted other personal documents that I'd love to be able to scan to disk and shred. This This Fujitsu unit (ScanSnap S510) unit gets pretty favorable reviews and seems to provide a fair amount of bang for the buck. Has anyone had experience with this unit, or have any other recommendations? I would want to stay around this price point ($430). I like the flexibility that a flatbed provides in terms of allowing you to scan from books, but I think the speed tradeoff with large scan jobs is a deal killer.

Also, for tax audit purposes, (God forbid), would I have to have the original hard copies of my returns and documentation, or would scans suffice? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[bbaquiran]

Productivity nerds love the ScanSnap. I have an HP inkjet-scanner-copier which probably cost around $100, but I only need the scanner feature around once a month.

 

[Quirk]

Originally Posted by bbaquiran

Productivity nerds love the ScanSnap. I have an HP inkjet-scanner-copier which probably cost around $100, but I only need the scanner feature around once a month.
Thanks for the link. Does anyone else have suggestions on home scanners? Are most people into multi-functions?

 

[Parker]

I like my Canon LIDE75 scanner. It's around 100 bucks and it fast and nice quality.

 

[j]

I've set up two of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Visioneer-XDM1.../dp/B000F1WE5S

For a client and it seems to work great. I haven't worked with any similar models but this makes it very easy to scan to various formats with the 3 buttons on the scanner itself, the scan and OCR quality is quite good, and the software works surprisingly well. They seem to like them.

 

[Quirk]

Thanks guys, I'll check out those recommendations for comparison.