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Article #880300dpi scanners
From: stroup
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 23:11
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1987 23:11
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My office is in the market for a 300dpi scanner for use primarily
on our Macintoshes (+s and IIs). Some features we are especially
interested in are flatbed platens for scanning bound documents,
optical character recognition, and a wide range of image formats.
I am aware of the following scanners available for the Mac:
LoDOWN
MicroTek MS-300A
DEST PC Scan Plus
Abaton Scan 300 and flat bed scanners
Spectrum Digital System Spectrum LS-300
AST Research TurboScan
Datacopy Model 730 Flatbed scanner
Are there any others I should consider? Does anyone have any experience
with or opinions on any of these (or others)? At the moment I'm leaning
toward the Datacopy Model 730 flatbed scanner because it has all the
features I mentioned above. I also like Spectrum Digital Systems
Trueform software because it can take scanned forms and automate the
process of filling them out.
We might also consider stepping up to a scanner that works with our Sun
3/50 or Apollo 3000 workstations, but I have no idea what's available in
this area. We'd be using document processors such as Framemaker and
Interleaf --I'm not sure what image formats they can import. Even if
we decide to stick with a Mac scanner, we would still like to be able
to save files in a format Framemaker or Interleaf can understand.
Thanks in advance!
Janet L. Stroup
Naval Research Laboratory milnet: stroup@nrl-css.arpa
Washington, DC 20375-5000 csnet: stroup%nrl-css.arpa@relay.cs.net
(202) 767-3107 uucp: ...!decvax!nrl-css!stroup
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