[geeks] Scanner recommendations?

[Michael-John Turner]

Hi all,

I'm looking at clearing all the paper clutter out of my house as well as
archiving family photos, so am in the need of a decent scanner.

My requirements:
- Good quality scanning of documents and photos
- Supported by OS X (Linux support a bonus)
- Reasonable scanning speed (whatever that may mean!)
- Reasonable price (say in the region of GBP 100/$200 at most)

Anyone got any recommendations? Those of you who've scanned, eg, old Byte
and Popular Mechanics articles, what software and hardare did you use? 

How good is OCR these days? Would love to be able to scan in an old magaine
article and have a combined text and image PDF created rather than purely
an image PDF.

-mj
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Michael-John Turner
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