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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Reasonable Non-Toy Digitizers (capable of ~ 300 DPI, < $10,000)?
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 12:28:07 EDT
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Date: Mon, 11 May 87 22:17:58 PST
From: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

The scanner I'm most familiar with (and like the most) is the DataCopy
scanner.  As far as I know, it's the ONLY scanner out for either the
mac or the pc that works like a copier (you can put the sheet of paper,
or open book, or what have you on top of the scanner, rather than
feeding in the page to be scanned, a la ThunderScanner, Dest, AST, etc.).
Scanning time is pretty good (~14 sec/page), and resolution is 300 dpi.

The software isn't 100% perfect, but for all my "not quite right" gripes,
it gets the job done cleanly.  It will save it's scans in some 10
different formats, including PICT, MacPaint scaled, MacPaint huge, SuperPaint
laserBits, PostScript code, TIFF, and TIFF Compressed (which I believe are
mis-named EPSF [Encapsulated PostScript Format] formats, but I'm not sure),
and one or two more.

Pricing is good.  List price is $1800 for the scanner, and $495 for mac
software and SCSI interface.  Stores in Berkeley are selling the two
together for $2,000.

Peter
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