Acer Prisa 620S

This is my first scanner from Acer. I usually worked with UMAX or Microtek, but never with Acer. Let's see. Complete set consist of the scanner with a slide-adapter, two power supply units, SCSI-adapter on a PCI bus, SCSI-cable, framework for scanning slides and films, manual on fast installation, user's guide, three CD with drivers, software (MiraScan TWAIN-driver 3.20, system of text recognition TextBridge Classic 2.0, utility for copying on the printer Copier 1.2, graphic editor Ulead PhotoExpress 2.0 Special Edition) and electronic manual. The body of the scanner is executed from a light ... more

This scanner has a TWAIN compliant driver, and can be accessed directly from any program that can support it, thus allowing you to scan directly into the application. It gives a good reproduction of the original image and is as quick as any that I've used. A full A4 preview comes up an under 10 seconds. The driver has some nice features that allow you to make simple alterations the image at scan time and settings for different types of paper being scanned. It comes with a software bundle including photo editing and OCR software both of which I found OK to use. If I had to make some negative ... more