[DM-MUG] Which scanner?

[D Reger]

Thanks David. I didn't know about the smaller version. Also on Amazon, I 
found a Pentax version, cheaper, with mixed reviews.

I also ran a similar question on the MacLife forum and got the following 
links from "Nefarious":

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&am ... s+cards%22
     http://www.newsoftinc.com/products/prod ... id=NAI0019   

The first is a Google page. Lots of biz card scanners but most not Mac 
compatible. The second is so complicated I don't know what it does.

I replied: " I guess what I would like in my fantasy world is a flat bed 
scanner like the Epson V30 that would also read biz cards and make it 
available to the address book somehow, and still have all those nice 
flatbed features. If anyone knows how to pull that info off the scan and 
into the address book or a mail merge let's hear from you. If I am 
asking for something obvious to some of you experts, please just slap me 
and then explain it to me. If it doesn't exist, could someone please 
invent it?"

Oh well, thanks, I'll keep looking. -Darlene




David McLaughlin wrote:
>> If there is a solution it will be with the OCR software but I have
>> never done much with it and cannot answer the question.
>>     
>
> The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M is the scanner I've be lusting after
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001XWCQO2/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance
>
> and the smaller version "ScanSnap S300M Clr 600DPI USB 10PG Adf Mobile  
> Scanner"
>
> I don't have one yet but have heard good reviews from several  
> sources.  I'm looking to go paperless in the next year or so.
>
> The idea is to scan a document and then have OCR allow the text in the  
> scanned documents allow searching using Spotlight.
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