Mustek Paragon 1200 SP

Mustek Paragon 1200 SP ... image editing and photo-retouching software as well as optical character recognition software.

The Paragon 1200 SP has an optical resolution of 600 x 1200 dpi and a maximum software enhanced resolution of 9600 dpi. With its 30-bit color abilities, the 1200 SP can recognize over 1 billion colors internally and save up to 16.7 million colors, the maximum number of colors displayable by Windows. The Paragon 1200 SP is a TWAIN compliant scanner. Through TWAIN, the 1200 SP can scan directly into many supported applications, providing flexibility and value. For Macintosh, the 1200 SP uses PhotoShop plug-ins that can be used with a variety of popular Macintosh imaging programs.

The Paragon 1200 SP is truly a cross-platform scanner. It includes all the software and hardware necessary to operate under Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and in Macintosh environments. Windows installation is easy with the included 16-bit SCSI card. Macintosh installation is even easier, the scanner plugs into the Mac's built-in SCSI port and the software is all on CD-ROM. The full versions of Picture Publisher 5.0 for Windows 3.1 and 6.0 for Windows 95/98 are both included on CD-ROM. Picture Publisher's visual tools are easy to use and allow unparalleled creative freedom. They provide an interactive preview to display the results before they are applied. If a mistake is made, Picture Publisher's InfiniteUndo and Command Layering can eliminate any previous action or rearrange the order in which commands were applied. MicroFrontier's Color It! is included for image editing on the Macintosh. Color It! provides all the tools to scan, retouch and save an image. With its "Instant Access OCR" feature, Xerox TextBridge Classic software allows documents to be scanned for editing directly with your word processing software. TextBridge is powerful and easy to use, capable of recognizing many different fonts at various sizes, quickly and accurately converting scanned documents into editable formats. The included image editing software allows the Paragon 1200 SP to save in JPEG and GIF file formats commonly used for Internet graphics. The GIF file format allows transparent areas and interlaced downloading.