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From: Chip.Orange@f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Chip Orange)
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Subject: Re: KPR VS. Arkenstone
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Date: 23 Jul 90 20:35:10 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Gary,
      Sorry, should have been clearer about that, it's important.  You 
can get a 400 DPI scanner for the Arkenstone, but it has a couple of 
drawbacks that the KPR one doesn't.  First, it can't scan the entire page 
at that resolution.  Most, but not all of it.  Second, it's not a 
book-edge scanner.  That is, you can place a book on the KPR scanner 
where the scanner edge is right up in the spine of the book, and it will 
read virtually up into the spine.  On the Arkenstone one, you must 
guestimate the position of the scanning edge, which is not the edge of 
the scanner itself, and position the spine there, where a significant 
amount of the page is left curving up and away from the scanning glass. 
The KPR also has a sloping front to better support the part of the book 
not on the scanning glass, and allows you to flip the book over when a 
page is done and scan in the reverse direction, thereby allowing you to 
use only one side of the scanner, and to be able to push the other near 
to a wall.  The arkenstone one makes you move the book over to the other 
side of the scanner to read the other page.
     While the 400 DPI scanner will help in reading smaller print, I 
don't beleive it is as good for reading bound books as the KPR book-edge 
scanner.
     By the way, I mentioned my concerns to Kurzweil along with my 
intension to write a more complete comparison article for a magazine, and 
they're sending me a KPR with beta 2.0 to play with for a month to allow 
me to include it in the article as well.

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