I'm neutral at best about the 'copier-like' ?!? landscape style and I don't want or need an ADF - the vast majority of what I want to scan is in a magazine or book.
An A4 B/W 300 dpi scan is 'only'.. does maths.. (300 / 25.4) ^ 2 * 297 * 210 = 8.7M bits uncompressed, so USB 1.1's top speed of 11M bits / second is actually more than fast enough.
I do note the HP specs talk a lot about the speed of a page, not the average over several. It's the downtime between pages that's the pain at the moment - 40 secs to scan and download a page, 2 secs to OCR it, then 55 seconds of waiting!
I suspect the only solution to go to somewhere like PC World (spit) and time some tests.
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An A4 B/W 300 dpi scan is 'only'.. does maths.. (300 / 25.4) ^ 2 * 297 * 210 = 8.7M bits uncompressed, so USB 1.1's top speed of 11M bits / second is actually more than fast enough.
I do note the HP specs talk a lot about the speed of a page, not the average over several. It's the downtime between pages that's the pain at the moment - 40 secs to scan and download a page, 2 secs to OCR it, then 55 seconds of waiting!
I suspect the only solution to go to somewhere like PC World (spit) and time some tests.