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Business Card Reader II
IRIS
http://www.irislink.com
Reviewed in December 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/inbrief
If every business card had a straightforward, black-and-white design, the IRIS reader would fare better. Because it failed to read so many of our cards, we have a hard time recommending this scanner as a time-saver.
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CanoScan 5000F
Canon
http://www.canon.com
Reviewed in March 2003
The CanoScan 5000F has very good line-art detail and moderately fast scan speed. On the downside is poor color matching and mediocre photo detail.
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CanoScan LiDE 30
Canon
http://www.canon.com
Reviewed in March 2003
The CanoScan LiDE 30 is inexpensive, has very good color fidelity, and boasts a portable design that doesn’t require an AC power cord. It is a bit slow, however.
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FineReader Pro 5
Abbyy
http://www.abbyyusa.com
Reviewed in June 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/06/reviews/ocr
This OCR software efficiently converts simple documents, but it lacks PDF-import support and its spelling checker is clunky.
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IRISPen II
IRIS
http://www.irislink.com
Reviewed in August 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/08/reviews/iris
With its intuitive, customizable software and data-reading abilities, the IRISPen II can be used in countless ways. If you need to do line-by-line text scanning or many other types of data-entry work, it’s the tool to have.
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OmniPage Pro X
ScanSoft
http://www.scansoft.com
Reviewed in June 2002
http://www.macworld.com/2002/06/reviews/ocr
This OCR program delivers flexible recognition options, imports PDF files, and has a superior spelling-checker interface. Its exported files have line-break problems, however, and its list price is inflated.
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Perfection 1260
Epson
http://www.epson.com/northamerica.html
Reviewed in March 2003
The slow Perfection 1260 has poor line-art detail, and its one-touch buttons aren’t supported in OS X. It does use a TWAIN driver, however.
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Perfection 2400 Photo
Epson
http://www.epson.com/northamerica.html
Reviewed in March 2003
The Perfection 2400 Photo is excellent at capturing line-art detail. Its color accuracy and photo detail is very good, and it’s fast. The one shortcoming is that the one-touch buttons aren’t supported in OS X.
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Scanjet 3500c
Hewlett-Packard
http://www.adobe.com
Reviewed in March 2003
The Scanjet 3500c comes with OCR software for OS X and provides very good line-art detail. The driver is flawed, however, and the color matching is mediocre.
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Scanjet 5500c
Hewlett-Packard
http://www.adobe.com
Reviewed in March 2003
The Scanjet 5500c is fast and provides very good photo and line-art detail. Like its sibling, it comes with OCR software for OS X, and it has a flawed driver. The document feeder needs work, too.
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