After agonizing over which printer to buy to replace my 10 year-old HP 5510 Series Inkjet, I opted for a Canon Pixma MX 870. Never again a Canon! Cannot find it in any review, nor on the Canon site, but the OCR support is minimal: The native support is only with Notepad. Pathetic.
It appears Epson does not have native support for Adobe Acrobat either – but for 6 year-old dumbed-down ABBY only.
Although I could use Acrobat to scan using either of the above printers, I find that the HPs with native Adobe Acrobat support work better: clearer scans, with better OCR. Although this may seem counter-intuitive, I have found this, nevertheless, to be true.
I am now going to purchase another HP. In my opinion, for a multi-purpose printer with fax and full OCR support, there is no other choice.
Will update when I decide which one to buy. Probably either:
- HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Inkjet Printer (CC335A#ABA) or
- HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One Printer (CD055A#ABA)
Decided on an HP Officejet again. Unfortunately, the one I wanted, the 8500 wireless was temporarily sold out. The quest continues….
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