[Gllug] Scanning

[Adrian McMenamin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: t.clarke [mailto:tim at seacon.co.uk]
> Sent: 11 June 2003 10:37
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: [Gllug] Scanning
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I realise this is totally off-topic,  but if anyone has any 
> useful info
> that could save me a lot of time hunting around, it would be 
> much appreciated.
> 
> The problem is that one of our customer in France wants to us 
> to scan various
> shiping-related documents and then email the scans to them, 
> rather than faxing
> or posting at present.
> 
> We have experience of using an HP USB scanner on a Windows PC 
> and the whole
> process sems painfully slow.  Fine if you want to scan just a 
> few sheets,
> but if more than a few are involved the process seems to take forever.
> 
> 

Along time ago I was responsible for the Labour Party's Excalibur EFS
installation and we used a drum scanner. They cost about £7k a go and are
prone to breakdowns and driver software was (then) in short supply but they
are very fast. The OCRing was the slow part of that, rather than the
scanning.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20030611/ce2cfb59/attachment.html>