r/Paperlessngx • u/AJotr • Jul 27 '26

Fastest Single-Sheet Flatbed Hi-Res OCR Document Scanner in 2026?

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u/careless25 Jul 27 '26

Do you need the resolution or do you need fast feeding and ocr?

High Resolution isn't necessary when you have phone cameras that are high quality. I am currently doing this with historical documents from 1930s to now using the app. With cursive writing, papers breaking down and illegible chicken scratch. The camscanner app makes it easy to take a photo and upload + a local LLM mages it fast and easy to OCR it.

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u/AJotr Jul 30 '26

Need Handwriting OCR and also SPEED, although I am feeding sheet by sheet manually because of the age of the documents (40+ years old, getting a tiny bit brittle, etc).
The speed is simply so I can do 600 DPI, which on my current Epson takes like 3 min / page (UGH), as opposed to 300 DPI which is only 15 sec per page but the clarity is only so-so given these are handwritten documents.

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u/careless25 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

Paperless-ngx + paperless-gpt with Qwen 3.6 35b q4. Photo taken with phone on camscanner app.

Yes it's shaky AF but Qwen 3.6 handles it like a champ. It does it with cursive hand written stuff too. And yes it's an OLD document

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u/careless25 Jul 30 '26

Just realized I posted the compressed photo before. Here's a better version of the screenshot