With prices for flatbed scanners hovering around $100, you might think it’s time to write the obituary for their sheetfed cousins. “Not so fast,” says Visioneer (888/229-4172, https://www.visioneer.com ), which has announced Visioneer Strobe Pro, a $199, 30-bit, sheetfed color scanner that boasts 300-by-600-dpi resolution along with USB and SCSI interfaces. The scanner includes the Paperport Deluxe document-management software and ScanSoft’s TextBridge text-recognition software.
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