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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
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 11:46:54 1985
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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
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