Thank you Steve, yes it does. Can you recommend any?
With warmest wishes
James
On 28 Jul 2008, at 17:48, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:22 AM, James Austin wrote:
JA: I was also wondering, does the scanner provide the accuracy, or
is it the scanning engine? Do some scanners give better results than
others, or is it down to the user and the techniques they use to
scan documents.
SS: Well, a little of both really. definitely the quality of the
scanner will impact on the resulting scan, however, if we're talking
about black and white text, on regular paper the OCR engine is
really more the determining factor. OCR engines generally don't
require, or have much use for high resolution scans in order to do
their job. Since a lower resolution is generaly used anyway,
scanner quality isn't as much of a factor as it used to be. In my
opinion, the real advantage that can be had with higher quality
scanners comes more in terms of scanning speed, the ability to scan
books with bindings, the ability to use a sheet feeder, that sort of
thing.
HTH,
Steve
