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drh4@midway.uchicago.edu (David R. Hanson) wrote:

>I'm considering purchase of either an HP3p or 3c scanner.  I can afford the
>3c, but only want to pay the extra $ if the difference for my uses are
>significant.  Occasionally, I'll scan in pictures and art, but the bulk of my
>scanning work should be in OCR, document storage, (probably on Pagekeeper
>2.0), "copying" with the photocopy utility, etc.  I'm using win 3.1, OS/2
>Warp's win-os2, and either Win95 or NT, moving increasingly to one of the
>latter as 32-bit win apps get released.
>
>Thus the question:  do those of you using the 600 dpi, speedier 3c notice a
>significant improvement in these areas over the 3p?  Can we expect the new
>32-bit apps to get more punch from the greater resolution?  Do you notice much
>of a speed difference?  What are your other thoughts on this decision, and
>what applications have you had good luck with?
>
>TIA for any advice,
>
>Dave
>
>
>Dave Hanson                
>drh4@midway.uchicago.edu  
>Philosphy Ph.D. Student, The University of Chicago 
>
Keep one thing in mind, for OCR work, all the major OCR packages (Check
this month's ZD report in Computer Shopper, my favorite TYprereader from
Expervision IS the best, Omniscan by Carere is second) work at their best
on 300 dpi scans, running higher resolutions DO NOT impove recognition,
just result in much larger files and slow down the OCR programs.  You'll
love 600dpi color for graphics, but my HP Scanjet IIp will deliver equal
performance to the 3p or 3c for OCR work...

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