[nfbcs] flatbed scanner recommendation

[Aaron Cannon]

I have used an opticbook scanner for the last several years, and I highly recommend them if you scan books. The big feature of these scanners is that the glass goes right to the edge of the machine, so there's no forcing the binding all the way flat. It also scans almost right to the edge, so you don't get the gutter text cut off. 

Not the cheapest scanner available, but well worth it IMHO.

Aaron  

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> On Jan 4, 2016, at 13:17, John G Heim via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner for use with OCR?  I don't do a whole lot of scanning. Sometimes I scan my mail. Sometimes I scan in books. I probably don't need a top of the line system. But I don't know if I should be looking in the $200 or the $400 or the $800 price range.
> 
> I also don't even have a Windows machine. I use linux with the tesseract OCR engine. So the software that comes with the scanner will probably be of no use to me.
> Feel free to recommend a scanner even if you don't know if it's linux compatible. I'll check that.
> 
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