Xerox Travel Scanner 100

[vhelp]

Continuing the discussion on scanners..

I have upgraded to a slightly better scanner (for my home desktop pc) the Xerox Travel Scanner 100, it has sheetfeed built in. I picked it up at OfficeMax. Anyway, so far so good.

The travel scanner 100 (let me abbrev it, TS100, for discussion purposes) is a decent scanner, comes with several software suites to complement the scanner. I am still exploring and debugging the TS100 and software.

I am planning to scan all my mail, receipts, dvd covers, magazine articles and photos, and many more interesting documents. But I will be scanning receipts and mail daily, it will become my regular routine. The magazine and other stuff will be more or less entertainment or other reasons I see fit.

But will cut it short here and start a searies of questions in my next post.

-vhelp 5391

[edDV]

You need small for travel? I used to use hand scanners.

If at home, HP and others make "All-In-One printer-scanner-copier" for under $100.

[vhelp]

Thank you Ed, I didn't realize they made them that cheap in price.. though I hadn't seen any in stores like Staples, Office Max, and Bestbuy, where I usually go to browse. I was looking specially for scanning, but now that you open my eyes, I see they do make them but they are under the printer section, an area I did overlook, dah. Oh well.

Anyway. I got the scanner for portability and sheetfeed features. I can carry this in my backpack if I needed to, where a flatbed would risk getting damaged. I don't plan on carrying this around but there is always the change of motives and I may do it on occasion.

I've learned a little more about scanning and things. Now, i'm currently dealing with "moire" when scanning magazines and other printer type documents. The unit does support moire removal but it is more or less a reduction feature. In my opinion, (least for me) it is best to leave this feature off (it is faster, for ie) and gives you total details vs permanent damage. If you have an alternate way of removing or reducing them, you are better off scanning full and doing later. I am currently researching ideas of "software" methods to remove/reduce this issue..possibly through avisynth if there is already a plugin--havning checked if one exist, yet. Anyway. I'm researching all about moire and how to deal with it. I'm looking at ideas for dealing through algorithms through code but before I can congure up any, I need to first research how they happen, how the scanner plays part in, and so on. I already have the basics of those and many more aspects understood.

I was origianlly going to ask questions about moire but i've already been researching it, thank you.

EDIT: perhaps some of the memembers have bumped up against this issue and figure out a few ways to deal with it. If not, maybe we can, by comparing a few scans, we could all participate by localizing on a few magazines that we can easily pick up at Barns and Noble for instance. I'm heading down that way shortly anyway. I'll be looking for some magazines and commic books etc and will use those a guauges, etc. Or, we could use some dvd coveres, the sky is the limit here. Anyway, later on if i get a chance, i'll post some scans of the issue. @ forum members: feel free to post your own if you are interested to do so, thank you.

-vhelp 5394