Hewlett Packard ScanJet SJ5300Cse Scanner

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Summary: Good Value for the Price
Review: For the casual home user, this is a great scanner. For scanning photograhs to e-mail and for importing images for greeting cards, brochures, and so on, this scanner is just fine. Scanning time is fairly quick. The software allows you to manipulate images to try and improve a photo or cut and paste one photo with another to create an entirely new image. For text, I would not recommend this scanner. Even top-line scanners have trouble with text, so don't expect great character recognition from this low-end model. Again, for the casual home user, you can't do much better than the 5300Cse; it does what most people want a scanner to do and it does it well.

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Summary: Good Value for the Price
Review: For the casual home user, this is a great scanner. For scanning photograhs to e-mail and for importing images for greeting cards, brochures, and so on, this scanner is just fine. Scanning time is fairly quick. The software allows you to manipulate images to try and improve a photo or cut and paste one photo with another to create an entirely new image. For text, I would not recommend this scanner. Even top-line scanners have trouble with text, so don't expect great character recognition from this low-end model. Again, for the casual home user, you can't do much better than the 5300Cse; it does what most people want a scanner to do and it does it well.

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Summary: Great Scanner
Review: HP 5300CSE is a great scanner. I scanned all kinds of photos and some documents for faxing the first week I had it. It works great with no problems, and through the USB connection it's pretty fast too.

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Summary: Great Scanner
Review: HP 5300CSE is a great scanner. I scanned all kinds of photos and some documents for faxing the first week I had it. It works great with no problems, and through the USB connection it's pretty fast too.

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Summary: Very Good Scanner, No Problems
Review: I got this scanner two weeks ago & it has been great. It took 20 minutes to install the scanner software & hook up the scanner. Very good quality, & mediocre character recognition. Scans in photo quality so it looks just like the original picture. The 4 buttons on the front make for easy access to all scanner options. It can also scan directly to the web, printer, fax, or photo program. Overall a very good scanner with very good features

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Summary: Very Good Scanner, No Problems
Review: I got this scanner two weeks ago & it has been great. It took 20 minutes to install the scanner software & hook up the scanner. Very good quality, & mediocre character recognition. Scans in photo quality so it looks just like the original picture. The 4 buttons on the front make for easy access to all scanner options. It can also scan directly to the web, printer, fax, or photo program. Overall a very good scanner with very good features

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Summary: idiot proof
Review: I had the scanner installed up and running on Windows ME in less than 30 minutes. Mind you, I've never before owned a computer much less a scanner. My computer setup is also HP. This works great and does everything I want it to. And, it is user friendly. Very easy to use. Thanks HP.

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Summary: Works with my Windows ME
Review: I have Windows ME and have had no problem setting up or using my scanner. I has a quick scan time and provides better than expected photograph quality. The character recognition occasionally mixes a few words up, hence the 4 star rating. I am satisfied with it and my other HP products.

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Summary: Works with my Windows ME
Review: I have Windows ME and have had no problem setting up or using my scanner. I has a quick scan time and provides better than expected photograph quality. The character recognition occasionally mixes a few words up, hence the 4 star rating. I am satisfied with it and my other HP products.

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Summary: Optical character recognition is poor
Review: I purchased a 5300 primarily to manipulate text. However, the optical character recognition feature is so poor that trying to correct just the spelling on one page of typewritten text takes way too much time. For example it picked up the word 'this' as 't!Jis' which is so poor a rendition that the spell checker was unable to recommend a replacement. Additionally it imagines things that are not on the page. It averaged twenty such errors per page. Don't buy this product for text manipulation!