Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!ptsfb!che From: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: thunderscan Message-ID: <197@ptsfb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 11:46:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfb.197 Posted: Fri Jul 12 11:46:54 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:38:48 EDT References: <845@oddjob.UUCP> Reply-To: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 32 In article <845@oddjob.UUCP> sandip@oddjob.UUCP (Sandip Chakra) writes: >... Is there anybody who has any experience >with a thunderscan? Will you also comment on the comparison between >this thunderscan and the digitizing the image which requires a camera? >Thanks in advance. > > Sandip Chakra The Thunderscan allows you to feed a page through the Imagewriter to produce a digitized data file, to use in MacPaint, for example. It's relatively cheap and does a good job, BUT... It's pretty slow. It can take you up to 12 minutes to digitize an image. If you don't have to do a hundred images, though, you're not going to find a much cheaper way of digitizing 2-d images already on paper..(cost is about $199.00) The camera (VCR-type) approach is a lot more flexible and much quicker. The major problems are: cost (unless you have a VCR camera already), and resolution. Most of the lower cost systems like Koala's product (software and connection box) are strictly TV quality images, i.e. don't expect to read in a page of standard text... I've seen some higher resolution systems, but it's going to be relatively expensive. There's also a product (name anyone?) that looks like a lens on a small tripod. This is supposedly able to record very good images but I haven't used it... Mitch Che Pacific Bell --------------------------------------- disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, too (415) 823-2438 uucp: {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfb!che