I'm hoping someone here can help me with a scanner and price point recommendation.

The scanner would be for daily use, around 100 pages per day and nearly all standard 8.5x11 paper. Rarely we'd need to scan something smaller but I think we can just photocopy those items onto a regular sized piece of paper and scan that instead. It would not need to do color scanning.

I'm looking at scanners with automatic document feeders but I'm not sure what the price differences buy on a site like CDW. It wouldn't need to be network accessible. It should be fairly reliable and capable of standing up to daily usage.

We'd be scanning about 20 pages in roughly 6 categories per day. After one category has been scanned, is there an easy way to designate which of the pages you just scanned go into one pdf file versus the next versus the next. Or would it have to be an all or nothing thing? Does this depend on the scanner software? If so, this is an important consideration.

I use a Xerox DocuMate 152, which easily would handle 100 pages a day. It does full duplex, full color scanning. Also has an auto document feeder.

As far as work flow...I am horrible at setting this up, and to this day just have the scanner setup so that when i hit the scan button, it scans everything in the adf into one pdf, upon finishing scanning it pops up this pdf in acrobat so I can save it to whatever I like.

This way my work flow looks like this:

1) Mail/Document/Whatever is received.

2) Item is opened and scanned. One full envelop/document at a time.

3) After scanning all the things to be saved, I head over to the computer and there are a bunch of PDF's open on the screen. I go to each PDF, see what it is, and save it appropiately to my file structure.

I use to use omnipage, but it was just too complex, I wanted something very simple and easy to use.

Good luck, report back with what ya ended up doing for me!

100 pages is not "high volume". True high volume scanners are designed for 1000 or more a day.

You'll be fine with any scanner above "entry level". Even my $299 Epson Artisan 810 can easily do 20 pages in 6 batches, plus it has ethernet. It can scan to PDF on the machine (memory card) or to PDF on the desktop, and yes - each scan session can be a new PDF file.

I have used the Fujitsu Scan Snap S5100 in law offices where they hold up well to regular heavy use. They can do duplex scanning and come with a complete copy of Adobe Acrobat Standard, which lists for $299.

I know a number of offices that use the Brother multifunction machines for scanning jobs similar to yours with good results. They have 35 page ADF's and use the excellent Paperport scanning software. These start at under $200. Some models are networkable.

Note that for optimum speeds, it is essential to scan in black and white at lower (100x100 or so) resolutions.

We use the Ricoh IS760D scanner at work and it is pretty quick, about 35ppm color and 65 for black and white.It easily handles 500-700 pages per day in our office. Have no idea on price

We have a ScanSnap on almost every admins desk, their excellent.

Thanks so much everyone for the recommendations. Once we make a purchase I'll try to remember to post what we ended up getting.

Interested in what you got

+1 to the Scansnaps. Very easy to use sheet-fed scanner. Might not be appropriate if your 100 pages are all at once though. My Scansnap holds maybe a quarter-inch of papers at a time.