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Re: Canoscan LiDE 50/80 speed for OCR?

In this case the scanner is important. The canon LiDE scanners are not
slower than other models but there is a difference. They use a different
lighting system than other models. It is definitely inferior for OCR
purposes. I own several scanners including a canon. I find the acer and the
epson to be the best. My HP gives good quality scans but the driver software
seems to slow everything down.

Rod Hay

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From: "Shawn Redford" <sredford@[redacted]>
To: <spok+bookpeople@[redacted]>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 7:46 PM
Subject: [BP] Canoscan LiDE 50/80 speed for OCR?


> Has anyone used the Canon CanoScan LiDE 50 or CanoScan LiDE 80 Color Scanner
> for OCR on books? These newer Canon models are USB2 scanners (unlike the
> CanoScan 20 and 30), so I am wondering how well they work in terms of
> scanning speed for Black/White and Grayscale. [...]
>
> After having scanned a lot of academic books with small footnotes and many
> languages, my impression overall is that the scanner is not nearly as
> important as the software, but scanning speed is an issue since that saves a
> lot of time. The Canon scanners are Contact Image Sensor (CIS) scanners, so
> the quality might be a little less than CCD scanners but I'll be surprised
> if it matters for OCR. I've been using FineReader Pro 7.0 and it seems a
> little better than 6.0 but I honestly don't see a dramatic difference for
> the work that I am doing.