However, there is a demand for the service and document feeders are available for the purpose. The Ricoh Aficio IS01 has been designed specifically for dealing with large numbers of documents. It doesn't support colour scanning, but DIP accounts for a sizeable proportion of A3 scanner sales and so we've included it despite its somewhat specialised specification. A simple budget scanner will be all that's ever required for the majority of users. The least expensive scanner outperformed other more costly scanners.
Price is no guarantee of quality .
42-bit scanners are starting to come onto the market at prices small businesses can afford. Scanners built for document image processing are too limited for everyday colour work. SCSI is the connection method of choice, but USB is growing in popularity and IEEE 1394 is starting to appear.