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1 RECOMMENDED by 45 people for OCR, PHOTOS
Epson Perfection V300 Photo Scanner
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$118.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i got this product to replace my old hp scanjet because it really struggled with copying photos and i had a boat load of old prints i needed to scan and archive.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars 10 photos at a time , it varies by the size of photo , and you have to allow some space between photos so the scanner can deictic the different ones that was great because i had over 500 photos to
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars gave them away.i have had this little beauty just two days and i have scanned over 200 documents and photos and not a slight problem.i would tell anybody to buy this scanner.it is so easy to use.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars if you are looking for a scanner to do photos and your all in one is not cutting it, i highly recommend this unit.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars although my main use for the scanner is just copying documents (usually the ones requiring signatures), i also use it for photos, which led me to discover that i could hook this up to my epson
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Positives: Easy To Use, Fast, High Quality, Type: Film Scanner (35 mm),Flatbed Scanner
2 RECOMMENDED by 36 people for OCR, PHOTOS
Canon CanoScan LiDE100
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$72.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars the only cons about the scanner is that sometimes it's hard to get photos off the platen glass, so in trying you can get fingerprints on the glass.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i purchased this product for simple needs: scanning the occasional document, low volume copying, and digitizing a few photos and newspaper articles.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i bought this scanner to scan old family photos and i've been very pleased with it.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars it does a great job on documents and photos.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i recommend this scanner for those who are looking to scan old photos and documents.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Fast, Compact, Type: Flatbed Scanner
3 RECOMMENDED by 21 people for OCR, PHOTOS
Canon CanoScan LiDE200 Flatbed Scanner
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$106.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i put 6 photos on the glass and it cropped and saved all of them in the destination folder.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars scanning software/utility works well in photoshop, although i can't attest to the functionality of the buttons on the front of the scanner.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i use it exclusively to scan very old b&w photos of my mother's.
  4. from Mike, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars it actually has a pretty decent program for mac osx(mp navigator ex) which does scanning multiple pages into a pdf, copying and ocr.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars not sure if it was because of windows vista, or maybe because of adobe acrobat and photoshop (my main two programs that i use for scanning).
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Positives: Fast, Easy To Use, Compact, Type: Flatbed Scanner
4 RECOMMENDED by 11 people for OCR, PHOTOS
Canon CanoScan 5600F
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$171.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars if you put 3 or 4 photos into the scanner, it automatically recognizes that there are multiple images, it identifies them, and automatically crops them.
  2. from JW, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars great for archiving old photos, i scanned four photos at once, the scanner automatically cropped each photo individually and saved them as separate files (major time saver).
  3. from Randy, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars i used the default settings in the application that comes with it and the photos look great!
  4. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars the scanner works beautifully when scanning photos, 35 mm negatives, and slides.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i'm using the canon scanner to save old "pre-digital" photos.
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Positives: Easy To Use, Fast, Compact, Type: Flatbed Scanner
5 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for OCR, PHOTOS
Epson GT-S50 WorkForce Pro - PC and Mac
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$577.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars ocr isn't that important to me.
  2. from thered2001, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars have not yet tried the ocr s/w.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i bought my first ocr (optical character recognition)machine in the mid-1980s.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars i found that my adobe acrobat 9 easily accessed the scanner, and quickly created a searchable pdf via its ocr function.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars both scanners come with ocr programs, for converting scanned images to editable text, but, with the twain driver, only the epson directly interfaces with different programs - omnipage pro,
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Positives: Fast, Compact, Easy To Use, Type: Pass-Through Scanner
 
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Pass-Through Scanner
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$435.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars i did try scanning a couple of photos, tweaking the scanner settings to highest resolution with jpg file output.
  2. from Jay, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars even a way to have them pop-up to the right of the screen instead of in the middle each and every time.the scansnap lets you set up a profile to ocr right after scan time.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars photos sometimes look better than the originals.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars neat receipts was agonizing slow and the ocr software was also slow and unreliable (often crashed).
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars a single, easy to use, application manages the very fast scanning and efficient ocr conversion of printed documents outputting directly in searchable pdf, word, excel, email attachment, address book
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Positives: Easy To Use, Fast, Compact, Type: Pass-Through Scanner
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