Recommend a good scanner? Thanks!

[nitsuj3580]

Looking to get a scanner as I am in need of some OCR capabilities and want to scan some photos.

Can anyone recommend one in particular? thanks!

 

[HermitGuy]

Gee after seeing the response to your post I'm not sure it will do me any good to post the question that I was going to ask. Anyway I just bought a Hp sanjet2300c scanner from office max for $69.00 (that seems to be going price just about everywhere) it does a pretty nice job on pictures from what I've seen so far (just bought it yesterday) but the jury is still out on text scanning where I'm concerned.

This scanner is a usb2.0 scanner according to the specs. it does seem a little slow for usb2.0 but since it's the first 2.0 device I've run I don't have anything to compare it to except my old parallel port scanner which it is quite a bit faster than. (yes I have usb2.0 ports) Now that brings me to my question! Does anybody here have experience good or bad with this scanner? while I can still take it back.

Sorry nitsuj3580 I'm not trying to hijack your post I just thought bumping you this way might help get us both an answer, and also that you might be interested in this scanner.