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Let's get right to business...
Handheld : like this:
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you hold it with your hand here
absolutely not useful for OCR, mostly b/w, not recommended for anything
sheet fed:
looks like inkjet, can scan only separated sheets of paper (just
like you feed paper for an inkjet)
No good for books, anything more than sheet thick/folded
Good: sometimes inkjet printers could be upgraded to sheetfed scanners
by purchasing a scan head
flatbed:
flat thingy with a window on top, looks somewhat like a really flat
copier - you put your object on the window and scan...
the best and all, not really expensive lately
for SOHO, I recommend an A4 flatbed via parallel - it's cheap and good.
HP scanners are excellent and expensive, but I've had an experience
with UMax, and it's great while 2 times cheaper
Ashok Bhiman wrote:
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> Hi,
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> What are handheld, flatbed and sheet fed scanners? What purpose is each
> useful for? What is recommended for SOHO? What are the price ranges? What
> are good brands?
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> TIA for your answers.
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> Ashok Bhiman
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