Please recommend a scanner to use for loading tabs

Larry Lenhart · Post by **Larry Lenhart** » 31 May 2014 8:15 pm

I have many books full of tabs for lap steel, pedal steel and Chet Atkins guitar transcriptions. Rather than continuing to keep these in books, and I probably have over 1,000 pages of tabs easily, I would like to scan them into my computer (or put them on a disk) and categorize them for easy retrieval. I live in two locations (Oklahoma and Arizona) and I always drag them back and forth taking up a lot of space in my car with the binders, which in turn causes me to leave some of my other toys at home.

Does anyone recommend a good scanner to use that would likely stand a lot of use like this.

Robert Leaman · Post by **Robert Leaman** » 2 Jun 2014 11:15 am

If your documents are books, than you need a scanner that opens sufficiently to accept an open book. Canon makes some useful scanners and I have used Canon products for years without problems.

Most multi-function printers include a scanner function.

Michael Maddex · Post by **Michael Maddex** » 2 Jun 2014 1:21 pm

Just a thought as I don't know what your budget is, but for the cost of a decent scanner, and the time to scan a thousand pages, you could probably take them to a copy shop and have them put on CDs or on a thumb drive for you. A copy shop could also make you spiral-bound paper copies and you could leave a set at each of your locations. HTH.