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- From: mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Joshua Mirsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Need Handheld Scanner Advice
- Message-ID: <1gdd54INNj7g@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:05:08 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- Hi. I have a Mac Classic II and I'm considering purchasing a hand held
- scanner in the near future just to have some fun with. Ideally, I'd
- like one that could scan both text (OCR recognition) and graphics
- (at least at 360 dpi, since I have a Stylewriter).
-
- Two scanners I saw advertised in Macwarehouse which fit these descriptions
- are:
-
- Typist Plus Graphics $339
-
- Lightning Scan 400 with READ-IT! $359
-
- I have the following questions and would appreciate answers to them:
-
- 1. Has anyone tried either one of these scanners, both to scan text and
- to scan graphics? Were there any difficulties?
-
- 2. Is it possible to scan a document containing both text and graphics
- so that the text is scanned as text and the graphics as graphics? Or
- does such a document need to be scanned as all graphics?
-
- 3. Do these scanners come with software, or does one need to buy it
- separately? Which software is best for these type of scanners?
- If the scanners come with software, which one of the two comes
- with the better software?
-
- 4. Where is the best place to purchase these scanners? Has anyone seen
- them advertised for less than the Macwarehouse prices?
-
- 5. Should prices of the scanners continue to go down in the near future?
- Is it worth buying now if I don't have any immediate need for one?
-
- 6. Are there any other scanners in the same price range which are better
- than the two mentioned above?
-
-
- Reply either here or via email.
-
- Thanks
- David
- mirsky@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-