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
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Long Island, NY