[DM-MUG] Which scanner?

[Ray Bowler]

Her original question was about scanning business cards into the  
Address Book. Would the OCR on the Epson V300 help her to do this?

On May 25, 2009, at May 25, 20099:26 PM, Allen Kiddoo wrote:

> We have an Epson V300 connected to iMac. Very satisfied with it.  
> Included software is excellent. Have not used it to scan film yet.  
> OCR is very good. Paid about $100 at Bestbuy.
>
> Allen Kiddoo
> Ioway Record Printing Co.
> 316 West Third St.
> Muscatine, IA 52761
> 563.263.7822 office
> 563.554.7166 mobile
> Chat: Skype: akiddoo
>
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:51 PM, D Reger <cdreger at grm.net> wrote:
> 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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Ray Bowler

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