Re: Selecting a Scanner

Albert, 

I love my E6. It's easy to use and seems reliable and fairly high quality
for the price. (I only use it occasionally.) I prefer their twain interface
to HP's, but I'm a big fan of Agfa's interface.

I have used HPs extensively (literally thousands of scans) in production
environments (esp. 4Cs) and found them to be bullet-proof and easy to use.

I've never been a fan of Umax scanners. Used one extensively at one job and
hated it -- not an Astra model. I really disliked their interface. And
found the scanner to be sub-par.

The bottom line for me is that I prefer Agfa and trust HP, but I bought the
E6 for my own home use based on its value. And I'm not unhappy with that
decision.

One caveat: I don't use OCR. Sorry.

good luck, tad

At 09:26 PM 1/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I am ready to purchase a scanner and I have shortlisted three units: the
>HP ScanJet 5p, the Microtek ScanMaker E6 and the Umax Astra 1200s.  I
>wonder if those of you who have experience using scanners would share
>with me your experience regarding: 1. the ease-of-use of these 
>scanners; 2. considerations in the kind of software they include;  and
>3. particularly the quality and accuracy of the OCR reading software
>they use.  The scanner's ability to read text page into memory is a very
>important application for me.  I want to have a unit that have good OCR
>software and is easy to use.  Thanks.
>
>Albert Chu
>alchu(at)earthling.net
>
>

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