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- From: velhart@epas.utoronto.ca (Nicholas Velharticky)
- Subject: Good inexpensive hand-held scanners?
- Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:05:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.150559.3841@epas.toronto.edu>
- Followup-To: velhart@epas.utoronto.ca
- Keywords: scanners
- Sender: velhart@epas.utoronto.ca (Nicholas Velharticky)
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- I am looking for a good inexpensive ($100) hand-held scanner for
- my computer. My primary purpose is to scan text, so I would want
- included a program with good optical character recognition. My
- computer is a laptop 386sx with a scanner port built-in, and a 16 gray
- scale LCD. My computer supports an external VGA color monitor, and I
- have the following software: Microsoft Windows 3.0, PFS: WindowWorks,
- Microsoft Word for Windows, and WordPerfect 5.1 (for DOS).
-
- Does anyone have any suggestions/advice/horror stories about
- inexpensive hand-held scanners?
-
- Also, is a scanner port supposed to be/look like another serial
- port? Mine is round with 9 holes in it (very technical description, I
- know :-) ), unlike my serial port. Additionally, how can I find out
- which com # it is assigned to? (My mouse is on com 1; my modem is on
- com 2; scanner on com 3?).
-
- Any advice would help. I know I am a computer idiot. Please
- help out the disadvantaged. Thanks in advance.
-
- --
- | "Not only do I deny the allegation,
- Nick Velharticky | but I also deny the allegator."
- velhart@epas.utoronto.ca | -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson
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