February 10, 2010 Comments Off
I’ve always been a fan of laser-based multi-function printers, they provide copying, scanning, printing and faxing – a must for the smaller home office – typically dubbed SOHO (Small Office Home Office).
Designed with a curvy-yet-chunky physique, the 4824FN sports a mono laser printer combined with an A4 flatbed scanner and a 30 page Automatic Document [...]
July 24, 2009 Comments Off
The Fujitsu Scansnap S510 is a dedicated duplex document scanner, built on top of the successful Scansnap S500. The S510 retains all of its predecessor’s strengths, and improves its offering in key areas, especially speed. I’m not aware of a scanner that come close to beating the S510 in terms of performance, with its 50 [...]
June 22, 2009 Comments Off
Image via Wikipedia
Like Wellington facing his old foe at Waterloo, this weekend I did laborious battle with the TWAIN specification and the scanner manufacturers determined to pervert it.
TWAIN is a standard that allows software programs to talk to image acquisition devices (scanners to you and me) in a common way. Although capitalized, TWAIN isn’t actually [...]
March 9, 2009 Comments Off
Welcome to the Monday update!
It’s been a pretty full week, and today’s update is probably the most significant since Home Document Manager’s launch.
What’s new? Well…scanning’s new. As of today, you can scan directly into Home Document Manager using any TWAIN or WIA compatible scanner – if you don’t know what that means you can safely [...]