Best scanner for slides of music scores

Hi, I'm looking for some suggestions for a scanner that would provide the best possible reproductions of about 1,200 slides of music scores. These black and white scores/parts were photographed about 25 years ago and would need to be printed to approximately 11x17 paper. I would prefer to spend around $1,000 but could go higher. It sounds like sometimes it's better to go with software other than what is bundled with the scanner and I would be open to that option as well. Even though these slides would be printed black and white I would still prefer to get a color scanner so that it can be used for other things when I'm done with this project. Also, is scanning to pdf the best file type for this project? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

While I haven't done that, it seems like you can do this with one of the Epson flatbeds in the $500 range that has a slide adapter. If you wanted an automatic slide feeder, then you may want a Nikon slide scanner for around $1000+ and the auto feeder will cost $500 more. Either will get you enough resolution for 11x17.
If you want to use software other than that included, VueScan is what I use, and may be suitable for such a project. SilverFast is another third-party driver, but it's more restricted to photographs. While I use VueScan for photographs, its workflow also supports document scanning.
PDF is fine to save to, though it's really a container format. If you scan to PDF, you are really scanning to TIFF or JPEG format stored inside a PDF file, for convenience and storage as a multiple-page document.

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