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

CZroe

CZroe

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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.
 
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.
 
Why just fold the receipt and scan it as two pages? Then those two pages can be united into one document.
 
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.
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NO WAI!!! I would never think of something so ingenious on my own.
 
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