I paid $149, dont know what the $499 is. Vickie Weir
Scott Howell wrote:
Bruce, I'd be interested as buying a scanner when this one works fine
and has less hours than its age would make it worth the while. I
appreciate the assistance. I did look at HP's site and was
unsuccessful in finding drivers for it on the Mac. The good thing is
the when I plugged it in, it was recognized, but of course
Imagecapture which is the only ocr program on here at the minute
didn't see it. I didn't put much stock in what it said so at least
I'm partially there. Maybe drivers would make some difference, but
looking at what Omnipage Prox cost, I was a little confused it was
$149 or $499 and $499 is a bit more than I want to pay for an ocr
program.
On Dec 24, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Bruce Bailey wrote:
If it is an USB scanner from Hewlett Packard, I bet you can get it to
work. The HP website is cumbersome to navigate and their bundle
software is bloated. The refuse to release a lean simple set of
universal drivers and claim a lack of backwards compatibility. The
model families seem to named (numbered) at random. Fortunately, the
hardware is quite good and their programmer sneak in more robustness
than they let on to the marketing droids. I have gotten a variety of
older quote Windows only unquote HP scanners to run fine under OS X.
After the new year, like the second or third at the earliest, remind
me of your particular model if you are interested in exploring this.
Of course, new scanner are pretty inexpensive, so maybe this is not
worth your time.
