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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (2125)	9/16/2000 3:21:52 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 12255

No, just the result of a scan, converted to text without much editing. The top of the line HP scanner costs about 1/4 as much as it did a few years ago and has 4 times the hardware resolution. Also, it has both SCSI and USB ports vice the special cable and 8 bit interface card that the old ones required. The S/W provided with the scanner does a better job of OCR than the $500 S/W needed in the past, but does not do any formatting of the text. In fact, I can not get the high priced S/W to work at all, may be due to the fact that I have Windows ME on that machine. Looking for more to scan ....