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From: rbr@bonnie.ATT.COM (4197,ATTT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Are Complete PC Hand-held Scanner & TANDY 1000SL compatible?
Keywords: Scanner 1000SL
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Date: 27 Nov 89 16:18:44 GMT
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I recieved a recent DAK catalogue that shows a hand held scanner made by
"Complete PC" at a resonable price. My system is a TANDY 1000SL, 640K,
40 meg Miniscribe Hard Disk and CM-5 color monitor. My questions are:

1) Has anyone tried this scanner on a TANDY 1000SL ?

2) Is the scanner compatible with the TANDY 1000SL hardware interupt
   configuration?

3) If the scanner is compatible, is there any PD or shareware OCR
   software that could convert scanned text into an ASCII file? The
   software provided seems to be picture oriented according to the
   DAK advertisement which is more hyp than informative.

The 200-dpi resolution, while nowhere near the industry upper limit these
days, is better than the 144-dpi resolution of my Star Gemini 10
printer. 

Thanks much in advance,

Robert (Bob) Rager
AT&T Federal Systems    att!bonnie!rbr