need the use of a scanner with sheet feeder (near Seattle)

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Apr 9 00:53:29 2002

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:

>
> Speaking of scanners with sheetfeeders, I picked up an HP Network ScanJet
> 5 a while ago that I am about to put into service (hopefully, I don't know
> if it works yet; also, as an aside, it is labeled as an evaluation unit
> from HP).
>
> Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they work? Well?
> Poorly? Fast? Slow? Is the OCR any good?

  What I'm gonna suggest is tantamount to heresy on this list, but "oh
well."
  For production scanning, go spend whetever you can afford on a USB
scanner. I'm running an Epson refurb that cost $40 (I think NIB is like
$80) and scans circles around my old SJ5. It's faster, quieter, clearer
and does much better resolution.
  Every ScanJet 5 I've ever seen with more than a couple thousand pages
scanned gets tinted stripes down the image.
  If it's an aquisition, that's one thing. But if you want good fast
scans, that's one of the few areas in PC computing that's really, truly
improved.
  As far as I can tell, if the contrast is OK and your scanner does 300+
dpi, OCR depends more on the software than on the scanner.

        Doc
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 00:53:29 BST