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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Logitech Scanner Driver Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 21:25:55 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32CECAE3.4E9@www.play-hookey.com> References: <59hhtp$k0n@nntp1.best.com> <5a18l1$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32caf617.14991246@news.cc.purdue.edu> <32CBF198.41C67EA6@nortel.ca> <5ajsik$fnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33553 J Wunsch wrote: > > Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca> wrote: > > > Actually, I'm in the market for a hand scanner, too. I was considering > > a scanman 2000. Apparently this model connects via parallel port (?) > > Handscanners are fairly messy. (I've got an older Genius one sitting > beside my desk, but it's been a gift, so don't ask.) > Just to put in my 2 cents worth -- I just had to install and work with the Logitech Color hand scanner (about $150), to run under DOS/Windoze. Quite frankly, I was amazed by its performance. It can autostitch up to four 4" swaths across the original ( with 1/2" to 1-1/2" overlap and no more than 6 degree angle variance). It was clean and accurate for me on line art, gray scale, text, and very fancy color images. The OCR software was also extremely good, and does an excellent job with full pages, columnar text, and tables & charts. The DOS/Windoze drivers are Twain-compliant, and integrate nicely with other apps, such as Paint Shop Pro. It actually produces better results, especially with OCR, than our older flatbed scanner at work. It wouldn't necessarily be my first choice, but it wouldn't be my last, either. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |