Re: Imagewriter II Scanner

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSapple2.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>    A much better scanner is the ThunderScan GS or Quickie scanner
>>if you can find one. These were hand-held scanning devices and did
>>a far better job (not too mention almost instantly too).
> 
>Are you sure the handheld one was called the ThunderScanGS?  The
>regular TS does super high-res, 16 shades of gray, etc--wasn't the
>handheld one called Lightning Scan?

    Yep. That was a typo, I meant to say the LightningScan GS. Both
it and the Quickie scanner were 100% identical, the only difference
was the name painted on top and the sticker underneath (they each
used an Omron 1700 scanning mechanism in the same external casing).

    The only difference was the Apple II interface card and the
software that shipped with it. That is where the products that 
Vitesse and Thunderware made completely differed.

>And does it have some way of reassembling several more-than-4"-wide scans?  

    Perhaps with the LightningScan software, but with the Quickie
you had to manually reassemble large scans (at least from my 
experience).

>Those handhelds are cool, since they have OCR available for them.

    I had trouble with InWords, it was never very accurate and in
the end, I just gave up on it. That may have just been me, but
one thing is for certain--OCR software available on the PC and Mac 
have always been much more powerful and accurate. Too bad WestCode
didn't write a version of InWords specifically for the IIgs.

    I've haven't used my Quickie scanner for at least a year now,
though it's still connected to my GS. What I'd really like to do
is purchase one of those inexpensive color flatbed scanners for 
my PC. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca