On 9/19/02 11:01, Nelson Helm wrote >>I will ask for advice on a scanner. I am on my third one. I saw the >>questions on UMAX. All of mine have been UMAX. I tried the first on an >>old Power Mac. Software conflicts. The second I tried on my existing >>iMac. Could not load software. Returned to shop and exchanged for a low >>grade UMAX. This one is now causing crashes. > >I have had two cheap UMAX scanners, currently an Astra 3400, each of >which has worked well. Each came with CD containing Adobe's Photo >Deluxe and OmniPage LE, which converts scans into text (OCR Optical >Character Recognition). The CD contained another program I could >never understand. > >I suspect that Adobe hopes to let Photo Deluxe, which came with the >scanners, become obsolete, >and replace it with Photo Shop Elements, for which persons pay cash.
Photo Shop Elements came for free with the Canon scanner, as did OmniPage LE. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
