Do folks have opinions on which tools are the best for controlling an
ADF scanner to import documents.

In general this means a variety of things (some of which are done in the
hardware/firmware of some scanners or VRS in the twain/isis drivers)
But some scanners don't do this or leave it to the software

Deskew
Automatic thresholding, page size, blank page detect, colour
page detect
Other cleanup

to:
Quick easy interface for scan, and fixing problems
OCR
PDF/DJVU export


Some of the packages out there include Quickscan pro, Capio,
and the ocr packages -- abbyy finereader, omnipage etc


Any opinions on which are best, fastest and have the nicest
workflow?

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