Which scanner you'd recommend

especially for OCR scanning

[operafan]

I've heard much about OCR & see that most new scanners support such technology. So I would like to purchase 1 scanner that mainly scan office doucments which are then organized probaly for record storing. So after scanning the text therein can be detected/read when doing a search. That's basically how OCR technology works right?

So which scanner do you recommend - not that $$$ please.
Thanks

[Robert Charlton]

I can't speak to what is particularly good for OCR... that has a lot to do with the bundled software too... but definitely let me warn you off UMAX. There have been threads about scanners posted over the years (do a site search), and I know I'm not alone here. I'd never go near that brand again.

[bill]

All of the name brands like Canon, HP, Epson, and the like seem to offer the same feature sets in their respective price ranges. OCR is dependant on the software, and not as much the hardware. If you can scan at a decent resolution you can OCR anything (look at Google Catalogs). If you're doing a lot of OCR you'd probably want a scanner with one of those document feeders.

I haven't done a lot of OCR in recent years. OmniPage used to be a big name in the OCR software industry. I had pretty good luck with an ancient copy of Adobe Capture back in the 90s. Not sure what's good now...

[operafan]

Thanks guys for the Tips, and I thought UMAX was a good brand to buy as some of my frens recommended it. So I guess the higher the price & the bundled software it comes with should be a safe bet.

I'll do some research, most probaly I'll go with HP thanks.