How can I scan long receipts through a sheet-feed scanner? Mod the scanner?

[CZroe]

My multifunction laser printer scanner with a sheet feed and a flatbed scanner "jams" on long receipts after pulling 14-17" through the sheet feed. It's not really jammed, so is this a software or hardware limitation? The fact that the printer's own LCD reports a paper jam seems to indicate that it is a hardware limitation. If so, what non-specialty scanners do not have this length limit? Can I mod to get around it? I wouldn't mind "squished" scans if I could somehow make the wheel turn faster.

I'd like to make a database program that manages rebates, so if I could find some technical information regarding interfacing with sheet-feed scanners, that'd be really useful!

The only free software I own that lets me choose which tray to scan from is IRFanView. Unfortunately, after it has scanned about 14 inches it stops and I get a message saying that the feed is jammed (it isn't). I can't rule out software because IRFanView may have been "setting" this limitation.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[CZroe]

Bumpage.
I tried to research scanners that did not have this limitation or scanning software specifically for receipts which would indicate whether scanners had the limitation, but all I find are programs for stitching together long scans (for flat-bed users) and scanners that I KNOW can do it that are strangely advertised as NOT capable. For instance, the NeatReceipts scanner and software can do it, but the website and all specs list a maximum document size of 8.5" x 11"! If it can do 30", which I could only find through a listing outside of the manufacturer and directly contradictory to the numbers before it (also mentioning the 8.5x11 limit), why is it not promoted and is instead contradicted? I can only guess that other scanners don't really have this limitation or it would be something they flaunt.

 

[corkyg]

Why just fold the receipt and scan it as two pages? Then those two pages can be united into one document.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Why just fold the receipt and scan it as two pages? Then those two pages can be united into one document.

NO WAI!!! I would never think of something so ingenious on my own.