Re: Scanners

by Jarkko Laine <jml79(at)sci.fi>

Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:07:38 +0300
To:	Steve Bassler <bassmstr(at)westol.com>, hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
References:	thehill catalinas ediblebrain netcom
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Hi Steve!

I have a CanoScan 300 and I've been very satisfied with it. I use PSP 5 too
and I've never had to use Canon's software, the Twain driver does the same
work. OmniPage Limited Edition came with the scanner and it's worked fine,
unless you want professional software like OmniPage Pro. But if your WP
includes OCR software you don't naturally need any other OCR program. 

Jarkko

BTW Canon has won all the magazine tests here in Finland.

At 14:40 24.6.1998 -0400, Steve Bassler wrote:
>I'm starting to look at scanners, too, so I'll take your advice
>seriously.  How dependent will I be on the software provided by the
>vendor?  For example, I use Paint Shop Pro 5.0, which has built-in twain
>support.  Does that mean I can scan directly into PSP and bypass
>whatever software comes with the scanner?  How about OCR?  I have
>WordPerfect 7.0, which includes OCR software (I believe - since I've
>never needed it, I'm not really sure).  Same question - do I need the
>vendor's version, or can I get by with what I have?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
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