Apologies if this isn't the right forum, but it is free post Friday sooooo..

To get to it, I run a specialized archive website of digital historical documents focused specifically on telecommunications. Over the years I've scanned a few hundred thousand pages. However, I've been lucky enough to have access to the large scale scanners with automatic document feeders with ledger (11x17") sized support at my job.

Unfortunately I was laid off a couple weeks ago and no longer have this access. It's likely that whatever I do next will have much less access to an office that would have a high capacity scanner.

So I'm thinking about acquiring something for home use. I have literally hundreds of thousands of pages of documents in the long term queue. Specifications would be:

• Supports up to 11x17" ledger pages
• Double sided scanning
• Color, grey scale, and black and white
• 400 dpi but 600 dpi as an option is preferable
• Scan to PDF
• Both automatic document feeder and platen scanning (some documents are close to 100 years old and sheet feeding them is a bad idea)
• Preferably scan to something like Google Drive but scanning to e-mail is perfectly fine

Searching around, a lot of these things seem to be pretty standard. The big sticking point for me seems to be the ledger sized support. A lot of these documents actually have fold outs that are larger than that, so I sometimes have to merge images, but having to do that with just letter or legal sized images is not fun.

For price range I'm willing to get into the low thousands. I've come across a few potential options but haven't had much luck finding reliable reviews. So any hands on personal experience that can be shared is valuable. Thanks!