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Re: Can anyone recommend a real good flat-bed scanner?
Subject:Re: Can anyone recommend a real good flat-bed scanner? From:"TrishGreen" <TrishGreen -at- austin -dot- rr -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:38:02 -0600
I use a "good" quality scanner (not top of the line, but I don't need top of
the line) and recommend it to virtually all of my clients. It's the
Visioneer One Touch 7600 (USB). As you pointed out, the scanner is only a
device; what really counts for text is your OCR software. ZDNet recommends
Caere's OmniPage Pro 10, and I recommend ScanSoft's TextBridge. Either one
will give you over 90% accuracy with your OCR.
Trish Green
Malachite Finch Publications, Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nickell Traduction <nickelltrad -at- autoroute -dot- net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:08 PM
Subject: OT : Can anyone recommend a real good flat-bed scanner?
> I am looking for a good flat-bed scanner. I've been told that the quality
> is not so much due to the scanner, but also the software that comes with
it.
>
> I know most of them are fine with graphics, but I want something that
also,
> as accurately as possible, recognizes text.
