The OneScanner was a series of

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s marketed by

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during the early 1990s. The original OneScanner model was introduced in 1991 to replace the earlier Apple Scanner, offering 8-bit (256 shades) greyscale scanning. It was joined by the Color OneScanner the next year, and a series of updated models followed. The series culminated with the Color OneScanner 1200/30, with a resolution of 600x1200 dpi and 30-bit color scanning. The 1200/30 included options for automatic page feeding and scanning transparent materials."Apple Delivers New Internet-Ready Apple Color OneScanner"

press release. The entire OneScanner series used

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as its primary interface. Sales of the final 1200/30 model ended in 1997. The scanners were offered with a variety of software. For basic scanning needs they included Ofoto one-button scanning software, and HyperScan 2.0 for scanning into

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. Later versions shipped with Xerox TextBridge OCR and

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support. The OneScanner was offered in a version for Windows, with Ofoto 2.0.

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