I am looking to purchase some scanning equipment. I want to be able to scan the pages of fragile old books so that I can work with the image or retrieve the text into a Microsoft Word for further editing. I also want to be able to easily scan from a volume of single sheets so that I can work with the images or text. I realize that I may need more than one piece of equipment to affectively work with both kinds of source documents. Does anyone have any recommendations?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <Bob_Miller@rdmiller.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Scanning Equipment > I am looking to purchase some scanning equipment. > > I want to be able to scan the pages of fragile old books so that I can work > with the image or retrieve the text into a Microsoft Word for further > editing. I also want to be able to easily scan from a volume of single > sheets so that I can work with the images or text. I realize that I may > need more than one piece of equipment to affectively work with both kinds of > source documents. > > Does anyone have any recommendations? > Bob: I have 3 different scanners and all are Hewlett Packard's, and certainly not and endorsement of their brand. If you are to do large numbers of single sheets I would recommend one with a sheet or document feeder, usually you can scan 25 sheets at a time, if you can find the older scanners they will scan 200 sheets. Also being able to scan large sheets 8 1/2 x 14 should be a consideration. Resolution and color is very important at least 600 dpi preferably 1200 dpi. If you are to do lots of pages the scan speed becomes all important. Don't get a scanner that shares your printer port, they are slow and usually will not work properly. If your computer has a USB ports, get a USB scanner although some of the older USB ports are not fast enough. Another consideration is the Software that processes the scanned text and photos is very important the soft ware that comes packaged with your scanner is usually not adequate. I find that Paperport ver 7.0 works well and that can be linked to a good OCR optical character recognition software. Ensure that you have hard drive of adequate capacity, I have 40 Gb and starting to run low on space so will eventually will upgrade to a 75 Gb hard drive. Hope this will answer a few of your questions. If you have any other questions feel free to contact me any time. Sincerely Mike Baker

I love my paperport Visioneer it shares a port with my printer, but you can remove the top for bulky books as a lot of the old ones are. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <Bob_Miller@rdmiller.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:25 PM Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Scanning Equipment > I am looking to purchase some scanning equipment. > > I want to be able to scan the pages of fragile old books so that I can work > with the image or retrieve the text into a Microsoft Word for further > editing. I also want to be able to easily scan from a volume of single > sheets so that I can work with the images or text. I realize that I may > need more than one piece of equipment to affectively work with both kinds of > source documents. > > Does anyone have any recommendations? > >