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>Subject: RE: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:42:09 -0600
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>From: "Lee Ramsdell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi
We have had good results from a product called Docupen. Their web site
is http://www.planon.com/ . You can get a number of software programs
by Abby Fine Reader that include OCR. It is hand held and it does
require a little practice in using it, however it yields good results.
We have only used it on PC hardware but according to the web site you
can use it on a Mac. Currently DocuPen is supported by MAC OSX 10.3.9
and up and has not been certified to work on Mac Intel based machines.
Regards
Lee Ramsdell, Technical Supervisor
Arts Resource Centre
Room 130 - A1, Arts Building
Phone 780-492-2142
Cell 780-952-8820
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Subject: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners
From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: August 24, 2007 6:54:47 PM EDT
Hello all,
I sent this query out about 2 weeks ago with no results. Perhaps it
fell into the just-before-it-all-breaks-loose-at-the-start-of-the-
semester lull, or perhaps this isn't something that many of us have
experience with...
Either way, I would still appreciate any input that anyone can provide
on the following:
A colleague is looking for a hand-held scanner for library/archival work
while on research trips.
I have done a bit of legwork on the internet and it seems that many of
the portable scanners are sheet-fed [which, of course, does not work for
books - the archivist may frown on detaching individual pages from bound
materials... ;-) ] or are designed first and foremost for automatic OCR
rather than "simple imaging".
My colleague would like to find a hand-held scanner that does high-
quality *image* scans (or potentially .pdf) since she works with
materials where there are likely to be illustrations in addition to
text. Any necessary OCR can, of course, be done from the images/pdfs at
home. She would be mating the scanner to a Mac laptop on her trips.
Does anyone have any direct (perhaps field-tested) or even indirect
experience with any of the better hand-helds out there?
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide us.
Mark
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