Re: Buying a scanner

Lance Eggleston (legglest@buffnet.net)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:21:25 EST

>Hi, and thanks for the post on the Umax, which I just purchased for
>school. It came bundled with Adobe photoshop, but I didn't realize
>it would, and bought OmniPage to operate it. Will Adobe photoshop run
>on an 8 MG RAM machine? Would we be better off with OmniPage? And I
>have no idea what TWAIN vompliant means! Any suggestions?

** Photoshop and Omnipage are two different products. Photoshop is a
professional grade program that manipulates picture files (photographs etc)
for artistic or publishing purposes.

Omnipage Pro or Direct is an OCR program for converting scanned text to
editable wp documents. **

Lance Eggleston
Director of Instructional Technology
Hamburg Central Schools
5305 Abbott Road
Hamburg NY 14075 USA
legglest@buffnet.net