moitoso%himmie@Sun.COM (Bob Moitoso - Sun Tactical Engineering) (12/28/88)
?I am thinking about buying a scanner for my Mas SE and would like some advice on what scanner would be the best buy for the money. I want to be able to scan both text and photos. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (12/29/88)
There is no single best buy for the money. If you are very short on
money, long on time, and want good resolution (~250dpi), and grey scale for
pictures (5-bits per pixel), check out:
Thunderscan (~$200) (requires imagewriter printer)
On the other hand, if you need 1000dpi, 24-bits per pixel, and speed,
check out:
BarneyscanMac (~$8500.00) (requires Mac II.)
Both of these would really like as much RAM as you can give them, since
images can be many megabytes in size.
Video digitizers have their place, also. The resolution is low by the
standards of the above two (i.e., there aren't many pixels nor much color,
in a TV image.) But, It is convenient to just point a camera at
something, rather than prepare it for running through a scanner. One
problem: you'd better have a tv camera. KoalaVision is ~$250.00. Does it
have better than 1-bit per pixel yet?
Publish! magazine is always running articles on scanners. Fnd some back
issues.
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My father has connected an HP Scanjet to his Mac SE and has been very happy with it. They use it to scan pictures for use in newsletters and brochures and to scan resumes which are converted into text with some great OCR software. It's been a real boon to his business, saving hundreds of hours of retyping resumes and saving lots of money because they don't have to deal with a printer for the newletter photos. The HP Scanjet comes with a SCSI interface (buy your own cable) and scanning software (both as a standalone application and as a desk accessory). I don't remember the technical details in terms of scanning quality but I think the HP Scanjet and Apple Scanner are about the same. (BTW, I'm trying to give an objective evaluation even though I work for HP. My old roommate works for Apple so I'm pretty pro-Apple. Besides, they throw better parties.) Bill Crandall HP Information Networks Division bc@hpda.hp.com