My parents own a relatively small machine shop and would like a way to have documents such as purchase orders and invoices scanned into a system where they can be entered into their accounting software by somebody offsite. Is there a relatively inexpensive scanner (up to a few hundred dollars) that will allow them to simply drop incoming documents into a tray for them to be automatically fed through the scanner and sent to a document system or folder on the computer or something like that? They have a multi-function printer/scanner/fax machine but the scanning process needs to be more refined than putting a paper on the scanner and going to the computer to scan it in and all that.
What is a good option for this type of system?
Best Answer
There are many such scanners, the phrases to search for are
A typical search result would be
Some scanners are network connected (for shared use, or so they can email PDF results)
Most are bundled with software, I can't advise which (if any) allow for completely unattended operation - probably relatively few of them and probably the more expensive solutions.
See also Cnet review etc