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Originally Posted by scanner
first thanks you took the time to review this
second, I don't like the review much
for example, where is the time it takes to scan in greyscale 300dpi?
where is the Finereader statistics about the OCR?
where is the comparison with other flatbeds?
the fact that you are a novice scanner user is bad for the review, an experienced scanner user should make this review (esp, a user that have experienced all the failures of book scanning of other scanners)
last, where is the second part? (hoping my questions will be answered there)
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I'll try to answer at your questions as best I can.
OPTISCAN 3600 does one pass and 2 pass scans. The time length does not depend on the d.p.i. setting (at least as far as my testing goes). One pass scans take around 10-11 seconds from button push to completion. The resulting file is usually fed straight into ABBYY Finescan automatically when done. Two pass scans takes around 25-30 seconds per scan, with the output being some form of graphics file. Mine is set for Tiff (because that's what Project Gutenberg US prefers), but the resulting image in dropped into a graphics mod program (I forget the name off the top of my head, it was included with the scanner.), where I can crop and save in various formats (Tiff, GIF, JPEG, BMP, ect.).
I looked once at the Finereader stats but found them meaningless for what I was doing. Finereader can and does make OCR mistakes that it does not realize as mistakes. The only way to accurately correct the OCR is manually inspect the results.
As to comparisons with other scanners, I've used a couple of cheap all-in-one printer scanners (an Epson and a Canon MP460). They did significantly worse on the OCR of text with the provided OCR software. However, they did better on scanning of images. I bought the OPTISCAN 3600 as a dedicated hardware/software OCR solution, not as a testbed item. Such commercial reviews as I read at the time made me feel that it would do the job I wanted at a price I could afford. Your mileage may differ....
Speaking of commercial reviews - this forum is a volunteer posting forum. What hardware people review here are items they bought and paid for, and have taken the time to write about. Nobody gets any freebie equipment to test. None of us get paid for any of our contributions, so what you get is always a mixed bag. Please allow us to be the imperfect selves we are....