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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: $100 hanheld scanners.. Any good?
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0bsa@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:52:16 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Wed 16 Dec 92 7:00, V120q4jf@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (vax
- wrote:
-
- V> Does anyone have one of those cheap, $100 black and white scanners?
- V> They scan
- V> while you hold them in your hand....... It seems that Mustek makes one
- V> that
- V> would be good to buy...
-
- I have the inexpensive Mustek scanner and use it with the bundled ScanKit
- Grey, PC Paintbrush+ (but don't scan direct to PB+), and Perceive OCR. It
- works great if you keep in mind the design limitations.
-
- If you are the impatient type, forget it. Scans (especially OCR and
- stitched images) are good ONLY if YOU are both slow AND can scan straight.
-
- As the editor of an unsophisticated club newsletter, I use my scanner every
- month to bring member submitted articles in via OCR, and on rare occasion a
- public domain clip art (forget photos - I can make them look okay at
- 800X600 on my monitor but it takes too much work to make one print well). I
- do save quite a bit of typing and although it is faster than retyping, it
- isn't a fast process if you follow my meaning.
-
- Sometime soon I am going to obtain one of the trays to help with making
- parallel scans.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- jim_johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us
- from Calumet, Michigan, USA -the world's former copper mining capital,
- located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
- ** The Keweenaw National Historic Park **
-