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In a message dated Wed 16 Dec 92  7:00, V120q4jf@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (vax
wrote:

 V> Does anyone have one of those cheap, $100 black and white scanners?
 V> They scan
 V> while you hold them in your hand....... It seems that Mustek makes one
 V> that 
 V> would be good to buy...

I have the inexpensive Mustek scanner and use it with the bundled ScanKit
Grey, PC Paintbrush+ (but don't scan direct to PB+), and Perceive OCR. It
works great if you keep in mind the design limitations. 

If you are the impatient type, forget it. Scans (especially OCR and
stitched images) are good ONLY if YOU are both slow AND can scan straight.

As the editor of an unsophisticated club newsletter, I use my scanner every
month to bring member submitted articles in via OCR, and on rare occasion a
public domain clip art (forget photos - I can make them look okay at
800X600 on my monitor but it takes too much work to make one print well). I
do save quite a bit of typing and although it is faster than retyping, it
isn't a fast process if you follow my meaning.

Sometime soon I am going to obtain one of the trays to help with making
parallel scans.

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jim_johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us
from Calumet, Michigan, USA -the world's former copper mining capital, 
located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
** The Keweenaw National Historic Park **