[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Anyone have experience with the Typist?

adishian@dorm.rutgers.edu (Aram Adishian) (01/04/91)

The Typist sounds like an interesting product and would mean that I
did not have to buy an expensive scanner to scan in all the documents
that I want to scan in, but MacWorld's review was lukewarm.  Does
anyone have any practical experience with it that they could share
with me?

Any better OCR solutions?

Responses by e-mail encouraged to help unclog the Mac newsgroups.

thanks,

Aram Adishian
adishian@dorm.rutgers.edu

a38856b@puukko.hut.fi (Aukia) (01/07/91)

I would strongly suggest, that you try the Typist with the sort of material you
will be scanning. The Typist has its strengths and weaknesses and recognition
of fuzzy documents is definately not a strenth. Multicolumn text is also much
harder then with for example the Scanjet+ and Omnipage. Then again the Typist 
is really nice, if you have to for example quote short exerpts of text into
your document.

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