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From: rich@sdchemf (Richard Kanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Scanner as photocopier?
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Date: 28 Dec 90 17:38:41 GMT
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In article <18490@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
> hand-held scanner for my Mac. What I hope to do:
>
> 1.	Scan in things I'd like to save, like newspaper articles or parts of
> magazines, and store them in a database for later retrieval, say by keyword.
> Optical character recognition is not a requirement.
>


Get yourself a big hard disk to boot.  One 8 x 11.5 page will be about
500K in assuming a 1 bit/pixel scan and a page is about 640 x 800 pixels.

                                        R. Kanner
                                        UCSD Chem