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dspelley:
Take a look at VueScan  http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html. Says it supports 750 flatbed and film scanners.

I think it's about $40 with a Pro version for about $80.

I don't know much about these, but here's a couple of others I found doing a "TWAIN Software" Google search.

Scanitto

http://www.masterslabs.com/en/products/scanitto/overview.html


Documalis

http://www.documalis.com/free/us_documalis_free_scanner.htm

tomos:
thanks steeladept and dspelley :Thmbsup:

I think VueScan has a great reputation esp for scanning photos, negatives, - there's another one that's supposed to be good at that,
Silver-something (-fast?) - VueScan seems quite reasonable cost considering reputation but not really the direction I was looking for..

PaperPort is supposed to be great as you say steeladept for office use but @ $199 it's definitely overkill for what I want.
Scanitto is reasonable cost but may as well try the free one's out first!
Documalis has a free version - I find it very difficult (=gave up trying) to find cost of standard or pro versions -
so I'll start with the free version see how I get on
download page is (seeing as I took a while to find it too...)
http://www.documalis.com/free/us_documalis_telechargements.htm#bas

thanks again people :)

tomos:
Documalis out the window  :(
I had great hopes there for a simple document scanner (even though I was originally looking for a bit more) - it seemed to work but wouldnt save as PDF, wouldnt scan when set to jpeg, insisted on doing a "preview" every time even though I couldnt see anything it would have allowed you to change at that stage of the process (you set the settings in preferences first) I gave up at that stage ...
To complicate things there's a certain amount "Lost in Translation" - poorly translated in spots, not at all in others
If you've fluent French try it out in original, you might do better than me

4wd:
FreeKapture - Save or Print, can't get much simpler.
FreeOCR - If you want to do a little OCR, requires .NET 2.0 - it can do other languages besides english.

If you want output to PDF just use one of the many free PDF printer drivers, eg.
BullZip
Go2PDF

Most software that accesses the scanner via the TWAIN drivers will require you to do a preview, however, once that preview is done you can usually just change documents and keep hitting the scan button, eg.
XNView - Scan a load, close the scanner window, then just save/print all the resultant images in XNView.

tsaint:
Scan2pdf - donationware - at http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=82

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