Is a SD memory card required? If I scan a very large (fragile) book, can I scan it directly to my PC? Does a USB cord come with the scanner? Thanks.
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An SD card is required and although it comes with a USB cable you can't scan directly to your PC. You must scan the files on to the micro SD card (which I recall having to buy separately) and then transfer to your PC by using the card in your PC or by connecting the USB to your PC. I also don't think this would work well on a fragile book.
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The SD memory card is good to have as a back up. And portable for instant scanning on the go. As for using 24"inch USB cord and Scan directly to your PC is not impossible but difficult. Easy just to have a SD Card at least a 4 Gig and scan and just transfer the stored images back to your PC when you're done. I have a 8 Gig SD card it handles all my needs. Good Luck I hope this helped you.
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I agree with Julianna. The person who says you can scan directly to your computer must be a computer whiz. SD card bought separately is required for me. I bought a mini SD card with adaptor. I guess it would depend on how fragile the book is and if it is larger than 8.5X11.5. If it is larger, you would have to scan it in sections and piece it together.
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It does not REQUIRE and SD card, but having one allows you to scan to the scanner without having to have it attached to your laptop. SD Card does NOT come with, but having one allows you more portability.
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This scanner transfers to a SD like the memory in your camera. Then with an adapter, you plug it into your computer. I have a 35 gb camera memory card and adapter and I can put lots of pictures on it and then transfer them. I wish this machine did a little better job of recovery on the old slides I had.
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Yes comes with USB connection card; however can only be used to either charge, or 'attach' memory chip as an external drive. USB does not allow connecting the scanner to your computer as a Twain Device. So scanning is not controlled by attached computer. Some software (I use LightRoom) can be set to monitor and display new files added to a drive. This way can monitor what the scan produced.
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You can connect the scanner to a computer by means of the USB cable. Download scanned images from the memory card and create folders in the computer. Your organized and edited photos and negatives in folders can then be saved to a memory card from your computer.
803275
Yes you can. There are two methods by which you can do this, but a little about how the scanner works first. When you scan a negative or slide, it places the digital image onto the SD card in the scanner. To get it to your PC, you can either hook the USB cable up to the scanner and the PC (which will open a dialogue like you connected a thumb drive or other memory device), or you can simply remove the SD card and insert it into your PC. Using either method, it is then as simple as dragging and dropping the photos to your computer.
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Thanks SO much, Liberty! I've been trying to find a scanner to preserve old photos digitally, but several are larger than 8.5x11", i.e. 11x14", so I need a bit larger glass to fit them. I expected this to be easy...not so! My old scanner is that big, but it only plugs into an old-style desktop computer, not USB2 laptop, and now I am wondering if I can find a plug adapter so I can use the old scanner for the big photos. Likely the scanner software won't recognize XP!
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I believe it uses an sD card and I have to connect it USB to download my scans.
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As far as I know there is no memory in the scanner. It is saved on your computer. So the memory it uses is based on the RAM you have. The scanner is simply the tool allowing you to scan in the image.
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Apologies for the lateness of this answer, but I finally scanned something and tried to view the scan via USB. Yep, you can do it just fine without having to remove the card. Just looked at the recipe I scanned (for Shrimp Pizza, which really is a dip and not an actual pizza!) from my hometown newspaper and it looked great.
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You do not have to use Evernote. Scans are saved as a jpeg file. However, you must use a full size SD card (or adapter) with this particular model.
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I haven't figured out how to scan directly to the computer but I can download off the memory card through the scanner. I prefer using the memory card, very simple to use.
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You can scan without the USB cable which is not supplied with the printer. I find having the cable attached makes things a bit more efficient but not a requirement. I suggest setting the printer up without cable and testing. If you desire to use cable after this they are readily available on Amazon or most retail electronics stores.
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I have a card reader in my laptop, which makes it very easy, buy I would assume that once u plug the camera cord into the computer it would read it as anoyher drive and you could easily drag and drop them or copy and paste them into a folder of your choice.
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I'm using the SD card, but, you can connect the USB cable that comes with the scanner to the scanner and PC, select the USB MSDC mode on the scanner through the main menu, your computer will recognize the scanner (just like it would recognize a camera or flash drive or external backup device), then on your computer go to the drive for the scanner and transfer the images.
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Hi, No you don't need anything just a USB port. Be sure that you click on the "search" field prior to using the scanner. Also, teh book might not show all the numbers but the bar code will read it. Finally, if listing books be aware that the UPC bar code is not the ISBN bar code for books prior to 2010. You might need to look inside or next to the barcode for the ISBN barcode.
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The sd card is not required. I don't use it, but I think it's for extra storage. Kind of like a flash drive, but you don't have to carry an extra item with you. As far as size, I'm not sure. Some units limit the size, kind of like phones.