ScanPro® 2000 Recommended Computer Specifications

Our computer recommendation is the DELL Optiplex Series. We have used Dell Optiplex computers for the last 6 years in the setup and test of our ScanPro products and they have consistently provided excellent performance.

Computer Hardware

Minimum Recommended Computer System

Suggested

Processor Speed

2GHz Pentium, i3, or AMD

Higher

Computer Memory (RAM)

2GB Memory

Higher

Hard Drive

100 GB HD

Higher

Optical Media

CD R/W

Same

Monitor

VGA/SVGA/XSVGA

Same

Compatible Operating Systems

XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Win 7 32bit and 64bit

Same

Computer-to-Scanner connection

Firewire (1394a)

Same

 

The minimum recommended requirements should be followed to insure proper performance

 

ScanPro 2000 Recommended Computer Specifications When Using AUTO-Scan®

Automatic scanning requires a lot of computer resources. If the computer resources are not sufficient, scanning speed will be reduced. The recommendations shown here are meant as a guide to selecting computer resources for your application

Computer Hardware

Recommended Computer System for Scan Speeds to 12 Images per minute

Processor Speed

Pentium® 4 3.4 GHz or i5

Computer Memory (RAM)

4GB DDR3-533 or higher

Hard Drive

250 GB SATA, 7200 RPM Hard Drive with Data Burst Cache™ or higher

Optical Media

24X CDRW/DVD Combo

Monitor

SVGA/XSVGA

Compatible Operating Systems

XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Win 7 64bit

Computer-to-Scanner connection

Firewire

 

Computer Hardware

Recommended Computer System for Scan Speeds to 30 Images per minute

Processor Speed

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E6750 (2.66GHz, 1333MHz FSB) or higher

Computer Memory (RAM)

4GB DDR3 Non-ECC SDRAM,800MHz,

Hard Drive

500 GB SATA, 10,000 RPM 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with Data Burst Cache™ or higher

Optical Media

24X CDRW/DVD Combo or equivalent

Monitor

SVGA/XSVGA

Compatible Operating Systems

XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Win 7 32bit and 64bit

Computer-to-Scanner connection

Firewire (1394a)

 

ScanPro 2000 Recommended Computer Specifications When Using
The PowerScan™ Productivity Suite

The PowerScan Productivity Suite for the ScanPro 2000 microfilm scanner utilizes advanced OCR technology to provide powerful tools for information searching, linking database content and creating word searchable documents from your microfilm. These OCR tools require a computer with sufficient resources to quickly process large amounts of information. The recommendations shown here are meant as a guide to selecting computer resources for these applications. These computer specifications were written for a current (10/1/2011) Optiplex 990 that has a suggested list price of $939.

 

Computer Hardware

Recommended Computer System for OCR processing

Operating system (64-bit) XP, Vista, or Win 7

Processor Speed

Intel® Core™ i7 2600 Processor (3.4GHz, 8M)

Computer Memory (RAM)

4GB DDR3 Non-ECC SDRAM,1333MHz Dual Channel SDRAM, 2X2GB or higher

Hard Drive

500 GB SATA, with 16MB Data Burst Cache™, equivalent or higher

Optical Media

8X DVD+/-RW, equivalent or higher

Monitor

SVGA/XSVGA

Compatible Operating Systems XP, Vista 32bit and 64bit, Win 7 32bit and 64bit

Computer-to-Scanner connection

Firewire (1394a)