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- 1 RECOMMENDED by 8 people for TEXT
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i had two purposes for a scanner: my primary function is to preserve long out of print and often rare history and theological texts, making them available to other scholars and researchers-- thus,
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when scanning text, the program provided will supply the text in an editable format, so now instead of having to retype text, i can just scan it and copy/paste!
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christmas i decided to publish one of her books on one of the sites that does it rather cheaply...(blurb) the problem is that i needed a way to scan her drawings so i could add them to the text.
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the only reason you would need anything higher was if you were going to create an image larger than 13" x 19", in other words, you could scan a photo, and enlarge it for frame use as large as 13" x
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it's emulating a copy machine and offers similar options like brightness and paper source along with it's own proprietary settings like dust removal and text enhancement (i didn't test any of these
Read more reviewsPositives: Easy To Use, Fast, High Quality, Type: Film Scanner (35 mm),Flatbed Scanner -
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- 2 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for TEXT
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i haven't done any high-resolution photos, but it works well with text and low-resolution photos.
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my only complaint is that its ocr software--which comes with it--plunks the scanned results only into notepad where i have to transfer it to word, but this is only a minor pain.
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for example, if the paper is slightly wrinkled, after adjusting the settings, the jpg or pdf scan will not show the wrinkles and will darken the text as well.
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enerta,
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i scanned color images and monotone text and results were always great.
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scanning options can be optimized for color photos, b/w photos, text, and the printed photos comprised of little dots.
Read more reviewsPositives: Easy To Use, Fast, Compact, Type: Flatbed Scanner -
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- 3 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for TEXT
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there is a fairly broad array of options for scanning text and images.
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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,
Read more reviewsPositives: Fast, Compact, Easy To Use, Type: Pass-Through Scanner -
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- 4 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for TEXT
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i can recover from a fax or a printed document and edit it in word or excel tables or iwork and save a lot of time retyping
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it is so much faster that it is hard to find words that do justice to the difference.
Read more reviewsPositives: Easy To Use, Fast, Compact, Type: Pass-Through Scanner -
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- 5 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for TEXT
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unfortunately, the particular design of scanner is that (unlike most fat desktop scanners) it cannot scan 3d objects, therefore text near the spine of a book, which is not in actual and absolute
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i noticed that the scanner attempts to "improve" the picture (which it does) but some of the detail of the text was a little off (brochure had images and text).
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not only was there still a shadow, but the text was unreadable at the center.
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Night Sailor,
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cons: scanner picks up every bit of dust--ok i can deal with that.but it also picks up the texture of the paper which is not visible to the human eye.
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Mike,
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cons: sometimes small vertical lines(not text) disappear when using the scanner.
Read more reviewsPositives: Fast, Easy To Use, Compact, Type: Flatbed Scanner -
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