Visioneer OneTouch 8650 Flatbed Scanner with Auto Document Feeder

List Price: $299.99

Features:

• 600 x 1,200 dpi resolution, 2,400 dpi interpolated, 36-bit color depth
• USB and parallel interfaces
• 50-page built-in automatic document feeder
• 1-button faxing, copying, OCR, e-mailing, storing images, and more
• Visioneer JET compression for faster scans

Accessories:
IOGEAR GUH174 4-Port USB MicroHub	Lexar Media JD256-231 256 MB USB 2.0 JumpDrive	Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition [OLD VERSION]	IRIS Business Card Reader II for Windows/PC	IRIS Pen Express Handheld Scanner

Customer Reviews:

Install headache and OCR problems [Posted on 2001-04-12]
The quality of the scanned product is very good once you have the scanner correctly installed. Beware though if you already have a different Visioneer scanner and a number of other peripherals as installation becomes a nightmare. We had to install, re-install the product 3 times. The support could be better also. The installation guide that comes with the scanner doesn't give much information when you are having difficulty with the auto document feeder and file conversions. If you want your OCR documents to reflect your original document you will also need to upgrade to Paperport Deluxe (at additional cost to you), otherwise your documents have additional characters added and the editing process becomes far too lengthy. Basically this is a good scanner, but you need to be familiar with scanner capabilities or it can be a real headache.

I got exactly what I wanted. [Posted on 2001-11-27]
This is a great scanner for the small office with not-too-heavy scanning needs. As a small law office, we scan about 3-5 documents a day, with page length varying from about 2 to 30 pages per document. We use Adobe almost exclusively, since we convert most of our documents into .PDF format. Thus, little in the way of OCR. (We have another scanner/printer/fax on which we use Pagis software for our limited OCR work.) At 300 dpi the document feeder will do about 4 pages per minute. The resolution is more than we need. For setup, tech support was more than adequate and quite friendly. Having had the scanner for about eight months now, I can say that it has been (knock on wood) dependable for the most part. Some software issues required a bit of expert help, but were overcome.

For the price, can't be beat [Posted on 2002-01-24]
Works just fine. Scans are great, document feeder rarely jams, PaperPort software is terrific. Nothing as good in its price range.

This Scanner is Junk [Posted on 2002-01-26]
I am on my second Onetouch 8650. I had to ship the first one back because no matter how careful I was with positioning and making sure that the proper paper was used, the ADF would jam up about every other page. I was then shipped a new one. It doesn't jam quite as often as the first, but the ADF is essentially useless unless you are just using copy paper. If you use any standard weight correspondence paper, it will jam the ADF. If I scan without using the ADF, there are all sorts of weird marks that show up on the scan that then need to be erased. This also occurred on the first machine which I shipped back. I used to use the Visioneer Strobe Pro, but that scanner won't work with Windows XP.

PIECE OF [JUNK]! [Posted on 2002-04-27]
the automatic document feeder on this piece of [junk] jams up every other time you use it!!! i am trying to scan documents in to email them to save money however i spend more time trying to clear jams and correctly scan the documents in that i wind up just faxing it. stay away from this one. i shouldn't have even gave it one star but i think i had to!!!

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