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Hardware: Saba Handscan: data goes from printout to worksheet without retyping. (Saba Technologies' low-cost scanner) (Hardware Review) (evaluation)

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| January 01, 1988 | Davidson, Marc | COPYRIGHT 1987 Lotus Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

HARDWARE: SABA HANDSCAN

Once again it's time to prepare a monthly report, and you must get some numbers from a mainframe-generated printout, as well as some PC-generated figures from a staff member. Reentering data into your spreadsheet from printouts of data stored elsewhere is time-consuming, produces errors, and can be costly. Text scanners can eliminate retyping by reading text into a computer, but most scanners produce word-processor files and aren't useful for spreadsheet material.

Enter Handscan, from Saba Technologies. Priced at $649, it is an inexpensive scanner, and more importantly, it works well with 1-2-3 and Symphony spreadsheets.

As the name implies, Handscan is a hand-held unit and, like a mouse, works as a supplement to the keyboard. To set up the hardware, you plug the full-size interface board into an empty slot in your computer, then plug the cable from the unit into the board. To install the software, you put the Handscan program disk in drive…

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