Scanners

There are 2 classifications of scanners, hand scanners and full page scanners.
They both come in varying resolutions and features as well as color or black 
and while. Be sure you know what you are getting.

Scanners are used to scan in photographs or line art or even text. You should 
know that scanning text requires good software called OCR or Optical Character 
Recognition. Any software less than $500 is junk. Word Scan and xxxx are fairly 
good. OCR is usually always less than perfect and you should proof read for 
errors. There are special boards with software costing about $20,000 that give 
near perfect OCR and anything less is quite imperfect.

Microtek is our best recomendation for a quality scanner. There are several 
models costing $500 to $3000. Usually, low end color scanners require 3 passes 
for color.

Scanner Interfaces include parallel port, SCSI, and propietary. You should plan 
for your computer in advance, especially since Pentium computers only have 3 or 
4 ISA expansion slots.