Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "handy scanners"
Summary: There is an Amiga model sold in Europe
Message-ID: <5618@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:28:04 GMT
References: <10778@s.ms.uky.edu> <14375@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10778@s.ms.uky.edu| david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>What do people know about these tiny scanners I'm seeing advertised
>in the magazines?  What sort of interface do they use?  How hard is
>it to get programming information?
>i.e. I'd like to think about getting one and if software doesn't already
>exist to interface it to an Amiga to write it myself.

I just read a review the other day in some European Amiga magazine (Amiga
User International, I think) of a "handy-scanner" for the Amiga.  It is
made by a German company, and it includes the driver software, some sort
of paint program, and an OCR package that can convert some common fonts
into ASCII.

I started reading the review, but I was scared off by the claim that
it worked on an A500 or A1000 but was "difficult" to use in an A2000,
and the manufacturer disclaims responsibility for any damage caused to
A2000s!  (From that description, I would imagine that it plugs into
the CPU slot sideways or something awful like that!.)

I seem to remember a price of 299 pounds for the "monochrome" version
and 399 pounds for a 16-shade grey scale model.

I don't remember any more details, but it was in the Dec 88 or Jan 89
issue.
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