Common format documents

Scanning of common formats (all sizes up to A4) varies according to type and condition of the paper. Either it can be scanned with a pass-through scanner or on a flatbed scanner.

Pass-through scanners with built-in document feeder

Advantages of a pass-through scanner

Scanning speed.
Both sides of paper can be scanned at once.
Built-in document feeder can take up to hunderds of papers.
The scanner works automatically after inserting a batch of papers into feeder.

The advantage of a pass-through scanner is mainly its speed – it can scan both sides of a document during one pass of a paper. The advantage of built-in feeder is obvious, because the person who manipulates the scanner can prepare batches with hundreds of papers.

Scanners with scanning surface (flatbed scanners)

Advantages of flatbed scanners

Regardful of paper.
Possibility of scanning thicker materials.
Can scan books, sealed documents etc.
Enables scanning of historically valuable documents.

The advantage of a flatbed scanner is mainly in variability of scanner´s capabilities to scan atypical formats. The flatbed scanner is also regardful of the document. Working with archive documents is mostly limited to flatbed scanning, because a through-pass scanner´s feeder could damage the document.