ChrisB

Money no object? Christ!

Epson do the

fast bloke

Used to have a Flextight Progression in a company I worked for. Absolutely awesome. No idea who makes them. No idea how expensive, but I'm sure you can find out. The OCR and text recognition is not scanner dependant, but we used a system called Documentum which had its own OCR text recognition functions. Again top quality - could tell the difference between pictures and text, upside down text, angled text, italics etc. I haven't seen anything else so flexible.

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AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

I guess it depends on exactly what you mean by 'immensely capable' (and, for that matter, whether you really 'no object' ).

Take a look at

Blow Dog

Well, if the scanner we need ends up costing 10k, then so be it.

Keep em coming folks!

Cem

CraigH

Guess an HP Scanjet 5400 ain't good enough then?

RonaldoH

You were given the best two on the market when you were born Mr Doggy Dog

Blow Dog

Money no object whatsoever, needs to be immensely capable with OCR/Text recognition.

Your help is much appreciated.

Cem

IWatkins

Cem,

We like this:

kryten

Sounds like you may be after a full blown imaging solution and not just 'a scanner'.

I've been involved in deploying Imaging systems (from the likes of FileNet, Tower etc) for some years for BIG companies. The scanners we use often cost 10k+ for VERY fast machines (thousands of pages per day), with high life tubes and other additional features. HP/Fujitsu (non-retail) models were most common.

After scanning the (large!) images are passed onto the imaging software that cleans them up, performs OCR/Barcode recognition as required and dumps the image to disk cache and optical jukebox.

The scanner will just provide the raw input for the OCR software to work on and they are totally separate issues.

What are the requirements/volumes/budget?? (mail me offline if you like).

AllanB

What exactly are you trying to do. There are anumber of scanners on the market with ADFs to allow you to scan multiple pages. Scan speeds vary form manufactuers as does image quality and other variables are bit depth, scanning area, speed at certain resultions. A decent A4 falatbed for normal positioning work is your for £400-800 quid and a quality scanner for final scans is normally going to be a top end flatbed or drum scanner and can easilly cost 5-15K !! What interface are you using as Firewire and SCSI are miles faster than USB or parallel.

The other big variable is thee software that comes bundles with some manufactuers bundling in software such as Binsucan whcih will allow automatic colour correction.

If you want quality stick to a know brand and forget anything cheap ie a £70 Umax scanner will not have the same robustness of a 700 model .

email me at work tomorrow is you want some help and advice at allan.bayman@eu.mwhsecom , oh you'll get a nice Scoobynet discount again.


AllanB

AllanB

Oh that should be

allan.bayman@eu.mwhse.com


AllanB

Shark

Cem

Talk to Allan, he's helped me out several times with PC stuff and the service is excellent.

David

dsmith

Worked on the project at NatWest that put image scanners on all voucher (cheques/paying in slips etc) reader sorters.

If you're talking volume I beleive the seven centres do several million a night

You need some pretty good back-end storage and network pipes though