Many thanks to Jordan Star for his information on scanners.  More important is
the way he signed his e-mail with his full name, e-mail address, and then where
he lives.

Others who do this are also appreciated.  I just can't remember the names and
locality data of all who contribute to Conch-L.  For instance, I wish I'd
remembered that Ross Mahew lives in Halifax when I was up there last summer.

Good shelling to all,

Helen Madow
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Yonkers, NY

Jordan Star wrote:

> Dear Avril,
> According to the techie at Helen Keller for the Blind the Hewlett Packard
> ScanJet 4200C (or Ces as in the store but not on the unit itself) is a very
> good scanner.  I paid $150 for mine.  In my research (or reading) I learned
> that a CCD? Is better than a CIF? Array.  A buying guide will have more info.
>  Also a scanner that scans past the glass plate can scan a 3D object, a shell
> or a butterfly, a scanner that can't scan past the glass plate can only scan
> documents.  The web site;
>
> www.hp.com
>
> has other scanners that have more features than mine.  The software is basic
> and can only recognize single column documents so I got OmniPage which can
> recognize multi column documents.  All scanners on the market have a basic
> OCR (Optical Character Recondition) so a different software package is
> needed.  I have yet to scan a shell and use MS Photoshop 2000 to fix any
> problems.  Can I help some more, maybe?
> Jordan *
>
> Jordan Star
> [log in to unmask]
> Long Island, NY