M
me
As for scanning, the quality is fine, but it suffers from a slow USB
Dint know that!!
I thought it had a USB2 interface!
Dint know that!!
I thought it had a USB2 interface!
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Sped
Dint know that!!
I thought it had a USB2 interface!
Nope.
Interface:
USB 1.1 (Compatible with USB 2.0), IEEE 1284 Parallel
http://tinyurl.com/a8jwv
Bummer.
Z
zakezuke
Update...
Omnipage SE that comes with at least my mp760 does not save OCR read
documents to PDF, but it does save to RTF. The help file was nice
enough to point out this is a feature of the PRO edition. $150 home
edition $600 office edition. It did do a decent enough job peforming
OCR and breaking up paragraph blocks into different locations and
keeping the background graphics. A CD cover with a Sun slate blue
background and white and black text was successfully read and converted
into an .rtf but it ignored the black text, only read in the white
text. It was very nice and coverted columns into a table. I haven't
had cause to OCR in a long time. As a bonus, it wasn't keyed to my
Canon, in fact it's first choice was scanning from my HP 950.
The "Scan starter" will save to a PDF but not peform OCR on it. It
looks like a useful feature if you want to e-mail a page to someone
else like it was a fax.
The "MP Navigator" seems easy enough to use. It autocrops and image
then allows you to either save / save as pdf, copy, e-mail, or
edit/convert to text. Not sure if there is an option to popup the Scan
starter so I could manualy crop. Clearly designed for people who want
to do something with an image in as few mouse clicks as possible. What
is not clearly defined is fax. There is only a copy button that brings
up a window emulating the layout of my printer, and doesn't allow me to
define another printer like the microsoft fax. But, the e-mail button
gives me a choice to either open up my mail software or manually attach
something, where in turn it drops a PDF in a folder and pops the folder
up. It's the same thing as "save as PDF" except under a different
folder. But whichever, open in your favorite PDF view and print to
the fax. Nice in the fact that everything you fax is saved in a
format that can easily be viewed with standard software unlike fax
packages of old that used some propriority TIFF standard, but annoying
in the fact that it adds mouse clicks to a process that other scanner
springboards either include, or pop up windows's print window.
I'd have to see if uninstalling "easy photo print" would allow me to
use the Navigator, select print multiable copies, and then trigger
window's print engine rather than canon's.
It's somewhat sloppy of them to offer a copy fuction and not allow you
to choose another printer. Personaly for the most part I plan to just
continue importing directly into whatever software I use. Keep in mind
that this is the MP760, while similar to the MP750 / MP780 is geared
tward photo features rather than document features.
Omnipage SE that comes with at least my mp760 does not save OCR read
documents to PDF, but it does save to RTF. The help file was nice
enough to point out this is a feature of the PRO edition. $150 home
edition $600 office edition. It did do a decent enough job peforming
OCR and breaking up paragraph blocks into different locations and
keeping the background graphics. A CD cover with a Sun slate blue
background and white and black text was successfully read and converted
into an .rtf but it ignored the black text, only read in the white
text. It was very nice and coverted columns into a table. I haven't
had cause to OCR in a long time. As a bonus, it wasn't keyed to my
Canon, in fact it's first choice was scanning from my HP 950.
The "Scan starter" will save to a PDF but not peform OCR on it. It
looks like a useful feature if you want to e-mail a page to someone
else like it was a fax.
The "MP Navigator" seems easy enough to use. It autocrops and image
then allows you to either save / save as pdf, copy, e-mail, or
edit/convert to text. Not sure if there is an option to popup the Scan
starter so I could manualy crop. Clearly designed for people who want
to do something with an image in as few mouse clicks as possible. What
is not clearly defined is fax. There is only a copy button that brings
up a window emulating the layout of my printer, and doesn't allow me to
define another printer like the microsoft fax. But, the e-mail button
gives me a choice to either open up my mail software or manually attach
something, where in turn it drops a PDF in a folder and pops the folder
up. It's the same thing as "save as PDF" except under a different
folder. But whichever, open in your favorite PDF view and print to
the fax. Nice in the fact that everything you fax is saved in a
format that can easily be viewed with standard software unlike fax
packages of old that used some propriority TIFF standard, but annoying
in the fact that it adds mouse clicks to a process that other scanner
springboards either include, or pop up windows's print window.
I'd have to see if uninstalling "easy photo print" would allow me to
use the Navigator, select print multiable copies, and then trigger
window's print engine rather than canon's.
It's somewhat sloppy of them to offer a copy fuction and not allow you
to choose another printer. Personaly for the most part I plan to just
continue importing directly into whatever software I use. Keep in mind
that this is the MP760, while similar to the MP750 / MP780 is geared
tward photo features rather than document features.
B
Bob
[snip]
I'm still pondering what I'm going to do, since the
suggestions gave me a lot to think about. But I just want to
say thanks to everyone for the advice.