Scanning Legal Sized Docs?
April 20, 2008 1:06 PM   Subscribe

I want to scan all my important papers, including documents which are on legal sized (long) paper. I have a Canon MP830 scanner and while the glass for scanning is the size or regular notebook paper, I thought I would be able to scan in the legal sized document from the automatic document feeder. So far, no go - all my PDF copies are only notebook sized copies. Any suggestions?
posted by cmh0150 to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)
 
get one of those small portable scanners, like the ones that come with Neat Reciepts, that will do legal, but you have to feed page-by-page
posted by Mr_Chips at 1:36 PM on April 20, 2008


You're looking at a one time trip to the photocopy store with all the legal sized documents, sheet fed at an 85% or so reduction to letter size, and voila, you've got them on letter size paper --- assuming it's not hundreds of pages, in which case you need a legal sized scanner. The scanner doesn't pass paper incrementally over the glass during a scan, and therefore you can't scan something larger than the glass.
posted by fourcheesemac at 2:00 PM on April 20, 2008


Best answer: after i posted, i got the answer - on the MP 830, you can set up batch scanning and identify the paper size for legal, A4 (what the heck is that anyway), etc...

So far works fabulously - did two mortgages documentation thus far...
posted by cmh0150 at 3:10 PM on April 20, 2008


I stand corrected; pretty cool!
posted by fourcheesemac at 3:52 PM on April 20, 2008


A4 is a British size, by the way, a little bigger than standard US letter.
posted by fourcheesemac at 3:53 PM on April 20, 2008


Response by poster: i learn something new each and every day...
posted by cmh0150 at 4:14 PM on April 20, 2008


A4 is a metric standard that's a little wider and a little shorter than US Letter.

The A series of paper sizes is fairly sensible. A5 is half A4 (as in, fold an A4 page in half, you now have A5), A3 is twice A4, etc.
posted by krisjohn at 4:30 PM on April 20, 2008


A4 is not just British, it is an internationally-recognized standard (ISO 216) in use around the world. Just like the US clings to the outdated inches for measurement, the US clings to 8.5" x 11" paper. The US is the exception here, not the rule.
posted by gen at 4:30 PM on April 20, 2008


Canada uses Letter and Legal sized paper rather than the metric sizes, too, despite using metric for pretty much everything else (though people also tend to know and report their height and weight in non-metric units).
posted by onshi at 4:48 PM on April 20, 2008


A4 is a metric standard that's a little wider and a little shorter than US Letter.

Other way 'round actually. A4 is narrower and taller than US Letter.

A4's proportions seem more useful and elegant to me.
posted by kindall at 7:55 PM on April 20, 2008


Kindall is correct about the dimensions of A4 paper. I was never able to get used to Letter sized paper when I was working in Canada...
posted by dantodd at 12:54 PM on April 21, 2008


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