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From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Document Scanners
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Date: 27 Jul 88 16:07:30 GMT
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Has anyone on this board had experience with document scanners, that is,
optical scanners which product text and optionally digitized graphics.
I've heard about the Kurzweil scanners, and am interested in other
products, particularly one from a company called Pallentir (?).  Any
leads/recommendations would be appreciated.

Herb Lison

	[one of the more interesting commentaries on this technology can
	be found in the latest issue of Verbum. Highly recommended (I'll
	have to get subscription information from home, expect it in a day
	or so). Essentially, the folks at Verbum have looked at scanners and
	pointed out that glowing reviews in the hi-tech press
	notwithstanding, the technology is:

	o expensive
	o even more expensive for output (cost to output a halftone on a
	  Linotronic can double, or even triple, the cost of the page)
	o of marginal quality for publication purposes.

	They also point out that for all the publications harping this
	technology to DTP folks, none of the magazines use it -- because of
	the problems mentioned above.... -- chuq]


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