Hello everybody, I've considered buying a hand-held scanner that I could use for quick text scans of journal article abstracts. However, after looking around the Web (Google mainly + sane website) I still have my doubts as to which one would present a good price/usability ratio. Please share your own positive/negative experiences on this matter if you would be so kind. I really hope to find one that I could plug into a parallel port of my Debian laptop and have it reliably scan in the text I need. I'm thinking of purchasing vividata's OCR Shop software to do the text recognition. Does anybody have any experience with installing it under Debian?
Thanks, Alex.