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  • Re: Who has the most reliable scanner drivers? OCR?

    From grapeape@grapeape@aol.comjunk (GrapeApe) to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 02:36:32
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    << A couple or three Umax USB scanners also work with Vuescan. Mine does
    not. It appears to me that Umax -- which was never noted for updating
    its drivers -- is dropping all support for Mac. >><BR><BR>


    Dropped. Not too long after the time USB came out actually...
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  • From amiga500@adsr@amiga.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 18:09:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Sorry I wasn't clear in starting this thread. My question is:

    I want to buy a new USB scanner. Can someone recommend some that are
    absolutely reliable under MacOS X? Easy of use and reliability are more important than graphic quality.
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  • From Charles Dyer@charlesd@newsguy.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 26, 2003 07:25:30
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:09:11 -0500, amiga500 wrote
    (in message <250720031809115323%adsr@amiga.com>):

    Sorry I wasn't clear in starting this thread. My question is:

    I want to buy a new USB scanner. Can someone recommend some that are absolutely reliable under MacOS X? Easy of use and reliability are more important than graphic quality.

    Just about any Epson or HP or Canon USB scanner will do. I personally have an Epson CX5200 combo unit attached to my eMac at home. It was US$100 after rebate. It's a pretty good printer, and a copy machine, and scanner. Epson's TWAIN software works quickly and easily. It's not exactly the scanner I'd use for professional output (it scans slightly blue, for one thing) but it's more than good enough for home use. (And, now that I know it scans slightly blue,
    I can correct the scans...)

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  • From Lambert Dickmeis@ld@suespammers.org to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, July 26, 2003 16:11:52
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <0001HW.BB47DD6A001DCFD0F0305600@enews.newsguy.com>,
    Charles Dyer <charlesd@newsguy.com> wrote:

    I want to buy a new USB scanner. Can someone recommend some that are absolutely reliable under MacOS X? Easy of use and reliability are more important than graphic quality.

    Just about any Epson or HP or Canon USB scanner will do.

    Unfortunately, Canon scanner driver support for OS X leaves a lot to be desired:

    <http://rentzsch.com/suck/canonLiDE30Scanner>
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    Lambert Dickmeis
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