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Hey all.  While at my Dr's office recently I saw the Fujitsu fi-7160 Scanner and thought wow would that work for scanning cards faster. Itook my Drivers license and insurance card and scanned them through the feeder.  The hassle with most scanner/printer combos is placing cards on the glass bed and then hoping they will separate properly once scanned.  Most printer/scanner  machines bend the document around a wheel which would destroy the cards. Anyone know of a good scanner that doesn't bend cards, scans both sides and does it quickly?? Geez this self-quarantining is driving me nuts.  Joe

I use my flatbed scanner, put anywhere from 1 to 6 cards on it at a time, copy the file as many times as I need to so I have a file for each image, and do the cropping manually using photoscape for each, and then I don't have t oworry about ever submitting a bad card image. I wouldn't trust my cards going through something that has to pinch it to pull it through. Additionally, I don't trust auto-cropping software to understand the differences when cards have white borders or black borders. One way or the other, the auto-crop will fail on you.

You're looking for a good ADF scanner.

Not the best for really valuable cards. But dupes and cheapies.....blink....front and back scans to the file.

My sister has a Fujitsu ScanSnap, an Automatic Document Feed (ADF) scanner.  I gave it a test run with some cards of no value/importance.  It did fine on most, but the glossy cards had damage.  Four fine scratches/impressions along the length of the card.  Very hard to capture with my camera but quite obvious in-hand.  You can see in the picture the two on the right side of the card, there are another two on the left side of the card.

I use a Brother DS-620

Epson V600 is fantastic.  

I have a ScanSnap iX500 which is also an ADF scanner.  It's great for scanning batches of thin stock cards (front and back at the same time!) but jams when cards are thicker and sometimes scans of foily or glossy cards get kind of elongated when they don't go through the path cleanly.  I wouldn't say it bends the cards, and the worst I tend to see is little tracks left by the rollers on glossy cards, which I can usually wipe off with a finger.  The upside is that when it works correctly (most of the time) I get cropped front/back scans!

I use an Epson V19 with VueScan scanning software (helps with color, crppping, etc). I am really happy with it. Altough, I haven't had the motivation to figure out how to scan multiple cards at once.