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This is Amazing! Here I am laying cards on a flat scanner doing 9 at a time than flipping them over to do the backs and today I see this video and feel like I'm in the stone age. lol

I suggest you Mute the sound. The so-called music is just noise and pointless. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HkqF27YQM

Does anyone here have this?

I saw that too very impressive and makes my way of doing it seem like a massive time suck. 

Being a fomer printer with 15 years of experience in offset and digital printing, I actually have known about scanners that can do this for some time.  The software that was being used in this video looks outstanding, don't know anything about it.

Scanning as fast as it was, the computer, I would assume, would be capable of handling the processing of so many images so quickly, without any hiccups.  Obviously, in the video, it was working without a hitch.

The scanner itself would present a few potential issues, at least to me.

1.  The feed is most likely using pinch rollers.  Pinch rollers are made of rubber and would need to be calibrated to the card thickness, fairly accurately, or the rollers would either indent the cards, damaging them, or/also giving the rollers unnecessary wear, which would lead to issue 2.

2.  Potential damage to the card.  A simple misfeed can obviously damage a card:  bend, indent, cut, tear.

3.  Autographed cards.  Referencing the pinch rollers again, there is a potential with rubber rollers to drag across an autograph, smudge, or even offset the ink used as the roller moves.

4.  Patch type cards.  With cut-outs inside the card, the rollers would be jumping, leading again to the potential roller issues.

Now, logically speaking, and simply enough, you could just a flatbed scanner for specialty cards like autograpsh or patch cards.

With all that being said, and even knowing the potential risks to cards (overall a small percentage chance of damage if everything is working just fine), I would love to be able to do this with the bulk of my collection.  

One of the things I really enjoy about scanning how I do, is handling each individual card and getting one that will pause my scanning as I have a memory on why I still enjoy collecting cards, and why I am so reinvigorated and enjoying it even more since I found this site and the wonderful people I have communicated with here so far.

Grandpa's scanning setup is a solid 9.5 out of 10, just by the short video itself.

Dope!

anyone have a couple hundred to loan me to buy one?

https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-fi-7160-Duplex-Document-Scanner/dp/B079VSWXHM

You can have mine , i thought this would be my solve all for imaging , paid almost 1 k and it's great for straight forward cardboard cards and cards with little to no gloss , it actually scratches the surface and i found out the hard way . Not good for thicker cards either , check out some images on tougher to scan cards on beckett and you will see many have issues, scratches or distorted scans due to the thicker stock and overly glossy types like bowmans best , bowman platinum etc It is not the solve all i hoped it would be, besides once you have these images you still have to attach them and THAT is the long part .

You all probably missed these posts:

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/SearchForum.cfm   on ADF Scanners.

I have the Epson DS510 ADF scanner. And it does EVERYTHING mentioned in this post. I purchased it really cheap. At the time it was the cheaper of the 2 supported by Kronocard. 

It certainly has limitations, just read the replies, however if you have dupes of regular "cardboard cards" for scanning.....either for the TCDB, Kronozio, your PC or whatever, don't blink!