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I am going to buy one of these two scanners tomorrow, but I am not sure which would be better for use with AC. If any of you have experience with one or both please comment on scanning in documents.

I am scanning in the old shot records now using a Brother BR-8460N. It is too slow though and it skews pages regularly enough that I don't want to leave them in there like that. I read hear that one AC users staff fights over the cannon 2050c and it is about about 200 cheaper. I have seen a scansnap running though and it seems fast enough, I only don't like adding the last extra of importing.

Comments?

We use a fujitsu with the scansnap software. I wondered if a twain scanner would be faster using the controls in AC, but my wife who does our scanning is very happy with the fujitsu - scans hundreds of charts, all incoming x-rays, letters, etc.

I am probably the one that you are thinking of. We had the big Cannon 6040D for scanning all the old charts. (It was a dumb choice) While it was in for repairs we bought the Cannon 2050 and when the big one came back, everyone still wanted the little one. The third time the big one ingested a LD50 of staples and paper clips I hauled it to the recycler and bought our fourth 2050. I don't know if the scan snap is better, I just know that the 2050 works for us. (I will be happy to remain ignorant if the scan snap would be the better choice!) It is easy to use directly from AC and I often scan a single page or two directly into AC from the HP ALL in ONE printer that is in the hall just outside the exam room. It is very easy to select which scanner and make it happen.

we are happy with Fujitsu Scansnap.

I went with the Canon 2050c. It's a nice scanner and seems to scan fast enough in general, but I'm told that in actual use it has been too slow.

It has an issue with not being able to scan B&W from its TWAIN interface in AC; there are only two choices of greyscale. I'm not sure why this is, but I think it is AC. I called Canon and they didn't come up with anything and the scanner has color, greyscale, and various B&W settings in other programs.

The whole process is too slow. There are too many clicks to get to the scanner driver and none of the AC settings retain state. They don't remember what was done last. If you choose to create a PDF it should remember you like PDF files and not JPG or any other. There should be a single button click to pull up the scanner driver.

I'm afraid scanning will drown us.