Scanner Software

[Prmetime]

I just received a SCSI HP Scanjet 4 scanner (big beast of a machine).  I am wondering if there is any software (driver or OCR) for this? Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Ilwrath]

BetaScan, an excellent package, available free on Aminet, says it's HP driver package  supports the following scanners......

  ScanJet
  ScanJet +
  ScanJet IIp
  ScanJet IIc
  ScanJet IIcx
  ScanJet 3p
  ScanJet 3c
  ScanJet 4c
  ScanJet 4p
  ScanJet 5p
  ScanJet 4100C
  ScanJet 5100C
  ScanJet 5200C
  ScanJet 6100C
  ScanJet 6200C
  ScanJet 6300C

NOTE: the following HP scanners are NOT supported:
ScanJet 4s, ScanJet 4si, ScanJet 5s, Network ScanJet5, ScanJet 3200C, ScanJet 3300C, ScanJet 4200C

So, I'm not sure if your HP SJ4 is one of those sub-models listed, or not...  If it is listed as supported, I'd highly recommend this package.  I use it with my huge beast of a SCSI Mustek Scanner.

[Prmetime]

Thanks IIlwrath.  Do you know of any Optical Character Recognition software so I can scan books and not have to type them by hand?

[Ilwrath]

Hmm.... I don't have any to recommend first-hand.

There is an archive on Aminet ....  agocr.lha -- it appears to be a port of a unix-ish OCR package.  A bit out of date, perhaps.... But free!  :-)  Can't hurt to try it.

The base version is now called jOCR, but there isn't an Amiga executable of that.  (If you have a GCC environment, it might not be hard to compile one from the source, but I couldn't tell you for sure, because I didn't look any further into it.)

Off-topic:  Say.... Are you the "Primetime" that used to call the Detroit area C64/Amiga BBSs?

[CaptainHIT]

If i remember correct, there was some software called Migraph OCR for Power Computing Powerscanners. It has not much to do with the scanner though, just the 2 color iff files you scanned and want to convert to text data.
Maybe you search for that. :-)

[ninja62]

I suggest you fxSCAN from IOSPIRIT. It's €29,00 now.

[Tenacious]

I use fxSCAN 4.0  and think it's the most user friendly.  It has OCR ability listed on the cover but I haven't tried it yet.  A word of caution, though, fxSCAN does not supply drivers for the various scanners.  It uses the drivers from an already installed scan package, ie Betascan or ScanQuix4.  If your scanner is supported in Betascan, great!  Mine was not and I had to load ScanQuix.  I found ScanQix (by itself) to be buggy  and cumbersome to use.  fxSCAN (purchased a year later) was more intuitive and, so far, has given reliable results.  Good Luck!
 

[Prmetime]

Thank you everyone for the information.  This should take care of everything that I need.

IIwrath-No I'm not that person.  I didn't have a Commodore 64 though I wanted one pretty badly back then.  I did try to find an Amiga group when I was living there but the only one I found apparently went under.