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New Products
The new generation of scanners is coming down in size and price, but not in performance.The Logitech ScanMan Color 2000 hand-held scanner measures just 1.75 by 5.6 by 6.5 inches, weighs 1 pound and supports resolutions up to 1600dpi color and 800dpi gray scale with software enhancements. The 24-bit TWAIN 3.2 scanner supports 16.8 million colors and comes with Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Xerox TextBridge OCR software. It is available in parallel port and USB (Universal Serial Bus) versions. The Logitech PageScan Color Pro is an enhanced version of the PageScan Color sheetfed scanner. Redesigned for Windows 95, this 24-bit scanner supports enhanced resolution up to 1600dpi and includes a 10-page automatic document feeder. Its detachable motor head lets you scan loose pages and bound materials. The PageScan Color Pro includes Photo Deluxe, TextBridge OCR and DocuMagix PaperMaster electric filing software. ScanMan Color 2000: $129 parallel port or USB; PageScan Color Pro, $349 Logitech 800-231-7717, 510-795-8500 Xerox Pagis Pro 97 A good scanner wins only half the document management battle; you need software to finish the job. Xerox Pagis Pro 97 combines its PerfectScan imaging technology, TextBridge Pro OCR software and Verity's Topic search engine into a document management package. Pagis Pro 97 captures, enhances and saves scanned documents in a portable file that shows up in an Explorer window. Use Topic to locate any scanned document or file. View and annotate your scanned documents with text notes, arrows and a highlighter. Drag and drop scanned documents into a word processing application, and Pagis Pro will OCR and reformat them. The word processing document looks just like the scanned original with pictures and formatting in place, and allows you to edit it further. Pagis Pro 97 also includes a business-card scanning feature. $169 Xerox Corp. 888-99-PAGIS, 508-977-2000 Interactive Efx PS Efx i Personal Scanning Kit You can have your scanning hardware and software in one package with the Interactive Efx PS Efx i Personal Scanning Kit. It includes the PS Efx i sheetfed roller scanner, TypeReader Pro International OCR software and Interactive's customized Presto Efx document management and business-card reader software. The 400dpi scanner measures 3.3 by 3.2 by 12.2 inches, connects to your PC's parallel port and handles paper sizes from business card to legal. $249 Interactive Efx Corp. 888-GETX-EFX, 408-743-8920 Corex CardScan Plus 300 Looking for an efficient way to get business cards into your computer? The Corex CardScan Plus 300 is a card scanner plus 32-bit software application with advanced Web and e-mail capabilities. The software automatically scans URL addresses into a database field that you can click on to access the site. With one click, you can launch your e-mail application addressed to a contact. While connected to the scanner, the pass-through parallel-port connection lets you print concurrently and connect to zip drives. $299; CardScan 300 software only, $99 Corex Technologies 800-942-6739, 617-492-4200 The Paperless Office You've probably heard of the paperless office, but now there's The Paperless Office. This 32-bit OCR software package lets you file, store, retrieve, annotate and distribute electronic documents. $199.95 Computhink 312-357-9100, fax 312-357-8746 Copyright © 1997 CMP Media Inc.
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