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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple Scanners
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Date: 11 Jul 90 19:56:12 GMT
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hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (-: Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer :-) writes:

>Does anyone have any recommendations for scanners for the Apple IIgs?

Quickie by Vitesse (ads in A+/Incider and probably Nibble) is a hand scanner
that is marketed specifically for the GS.

Apple has supposedly released drivers for their Scanner (which requires a
SCSI card in the system, preferably the new SCSI card) but since it's pretty
expensive I don't know if its what you want. It can do full legal pages
though, whereas Quickie does 4 inch strips.

>Also, is there any software commercially available to parse the scanned
>bitmaps and is able to convert the pixels into ascii characters (with not
>*too* many errors)?

There is supposed to be a conference on America Online (aka AppleLink Personal
Edition) soon about a OCR package for the GS.

>Prices and dealer information would be helpful too.  

Sorry, can't help you there. If I was planning on buying a scanner I'd be
a bit more informed.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu