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Re: Which OCR package for text scanning is the best?

tal...@thegood.com (Talker) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:00:41 UT

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:09:44 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
Hi there CH! Sorry to take so long to reply. I don't stop in
this group as often as I used to.
Thanks for the offer to run a scan through your OCR, but I don't
have anything that I'd like to scan.
The thing is, it's very seldom that I need to use OCR software,

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

wizofo...@yahoo.com.au (Noons) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:57:05 UT

Nigel Feltham wrote,on my timestamp of 13/03/2010 11:10 PM:
Bingo! I love how many nearly free excellent Nikon - and compatible - lenses
I've come across in the last 6 years "because film is dead and I don't use this
stuff anymore"! I've now invested in a Nikon dslr of the previous generation
with the ability to use AI-S lenses. Superb results, as expected. I love the

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

nigel.felt...@btinternet.com (Nigel Feltham) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:10:37 UT

On the bright side this does mean Film SLR's are selling really cheap now if
you go to the right places (charity shops, yardsales, etc - not ebay as
buyers know what they're getting and push prices back up) and make a good
source for extra lenses for Digital SLR's if you get one with same lens
mount (For example I've seen Canon EOS film cameras with 2 lenses for under

Re: CanoScan 4400F - Stripe Down Left Edge of Images

xx...@nowhere.invalid (xxyyz) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:59:40 UT

CSM1 wrote:
Why not??
Correct - it was just intended to show the stripe.
Which link? "Download this image" or the one
under "Share this file:"?
This is the first time I have used mediafire; if they do
have viruses or trojans associated with their links, I
will not use them again.
However, before I posted my message, I tried their links;

Re: CanoScan 4400F - Stripe Down Left Edge of Images

xx...@nowhere.invalid (xxyyz) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:49:28 UT

CSM1 wrote:
Thank you - I was afraid that would be the answer. A
few additional questions:
1. Is this normal after less than 15 months and
relatively few scans (maybe 30 total)?
2. Is the stripe likely to become more pronounced if
I don't clean now?
3. Is there long-term damage if I don't clean now?

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

wizofo...@yahoo.com.au (Noons) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:19:00 UT

Ivan wrote,on my timestamp of 13/03/2010 3:05 AM:
I sincerely hope so. But there is a bit more about scanning than just upping the
rez of the scanner. Correct focus and keeping the film flat become more and
more important as the rez goes up. Most of these cheap scanners don't even have
any focus facility and rely on flimsy mounts to keep frames flat.

Re: CanoScan 4400F - Stripe Down Left Edge of Images

nom...@nomoremail.com (CSM1) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:36:50 UT

CSM1 <nom...@nomoremail.com> wrote in news:Xns9D395A0DE79C1nomoremai l@
74.209.136.93:
Bad to reply to my own reply.
Don't scan a notebook ruled paper.
His jpg is a sheet of blue ruled scratch pad.
The link is a virus or trojan.

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

dons...@charter.net (Don Kirkman) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:20:12 UT

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:42:46 +0100, "il barbi"
I bought one of those scanners (they seem to be basically identical,
no matter which company is selling them) but could never get it to
function--as I recall, I couldn't get my system to recognize the
hardware or the installation software. The vendor (one of those shops

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

i...@ivanberger.com (Ivan) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:05:45 UT

The reason the cheap scanners are so fast is that they don't scan,
near as I can tell, but simply photograph the slide or neg with a
camera-type sensor. Since high-resolution (10-15 MP) sensors are
already in relatively inexpensive cameras, and 20-MP or higher sensors
are available, I think higher resolution for these one-snap scanners

Re: CanoScan 4400F - Stripe Down Left Edge of Images

nom...@nomoremail.com (CSM1) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:51:18 UT

xxyyz <xx...@nowhere.invalid> wrote in news:hncf4f$l9t$1
@news.albasani.net:
all images,
stripe is
the LHS of
first appeared
quickkey=dndmymyrmum
it doesn't
stripe, but
out to the
graphics.
just use the
the
help.
opaque blanket
seepage - no
(somewhat limited)
the B&W and
or other
useful.
You will have to take the scanner apart and clean the

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

angeieri.barbo...@ngi.it (il barbi) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:42:46 UT

"il barbi" <angeieri.barbo...@ngi.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
Thanks to all for your valuable answers, actually I asked the question but I
already knew the answer...:-)
Anyway the reason for these devices is quite strong, that is the time of
performance being as short as few seconds. Indeed many people, like me,

CanoScan 4400F - Stripe Down Left Edge of Images

xx...@nowhere.invalid (xxyyz) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:15:19 UT

I have a 15-month old CanoScan 4400F (Model# K10293). On all images,
there is a narrow stripe down the left-hand side. The stripe is
grayish, with its right-hand edge red, is hard up against the LHS of
the image, and its edges are absolutely straight. It first appeared
a couple of months ago.
I have uploaded a test image - see:

Re: Red Streaks on scanning

markkel...@bigpond.com (Mark Kelepouris) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:04 UT

Perhaps I can help.
Being one of the nice Agfa scanners that they are, means it most likely uses
a CCD Sensor consisting of an individual row of pixals each for RGB. (my
Snapscan 1236s and Studiostar certainly do)
Clearly these rows are separated by some amount and from memory was 16-32
pixals but the exact amount is irrelevant, but the fact that they are

Re: Cheap slide "scanners"

watzmannos...@neo.rr.com (Barry Watzman) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:16:34 UT

Or a $300 Nikon scanner (LS-2000 or LS-30, but cleaned and working).
CSM1 wrote:

Re: Slide Scanner Recommendation

ch...@anywhere.com (Chris) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:40 UT

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:34 +0800, "Woofdog" <woof...@kennel.com.au>
wrote:
Thanks for that - but I found a hardly-used Scanwit 2740 on ebay for
almost a quarter the price of a V700. As I've been very happy with my
2720, it was too good to pass up.
I reckon that, by the time that gives up the ghost...