<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div>A few days ago I bought the Fujitsu S1500M document scanner for digitally archiving my handwritten lecture notes and also printed documents, and in the process I also experimented with the OCR capabilities of Acrobat Pro 9.</div><div><br></div><div>The S1500M lived up to the high expectations I had because of the raving reviews, it works <b>quickly</b> and the results are <b>excellent</b>: several scanning modes can be predefined including duplex scanning, resolutions, OCR, ...</div><div><br></div><div>OCR of course works only for printed documents. For scans of handwritten notes I usually add a front page (using pdflatex and pdfselect) with some keywords. In Acrobat Pro 9 one can also add Bookmarks for easier navigation.</div><div><br></div><div>I have many pdf files of scanned old journal articles which are not searchable, but in Acrobat Pro 9 these files can be made searchable after specifying a language. A 42 pages mathematical paper was OCRed in less than a minute. A check (including Spotlight) worked fine.</div><div><br></div><div>In short the S1500M is a beauty.</div><div><br></div><div>Claus</div><span></span><br><br></div><br></body></html>