[nflug] Stand-alone scanner?

[Sam Stern]

Hi Joe,

I have not used any of these products for almost ten years. Back then (1995
ish) the "scanner pen" solution did not work well. By now, I would expect
that scanner pens would have enough storage to make their use worthwhile.
That said, google for "handheld portable scanner". OF note is this ./
article:

<http://ask.slashdot.org/apple/02/10/10/1921233.shtml?tid=107>

In that article, they suggest taking high resolution (300 dpi, tiff format)
digital photos and running ocr over them at a later point. 


Good luck!

Sam S.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] 
>On Behalf Of Joe
>Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 04:14 PM
>To: NFLUG
>Subject: [nflug] Stand-alone scanner?
>
>I don't know if this exists, but I'm looking for a scanner 
>that I could 
>take to a library, etc. and run it over text like a 
>highlighter (one or 
>more lines at a time) and get the image or, even better, ocr'd text 
>stored in it for later use.  Preferably, it would be like a Walkman or 
>Palm (I have a Tungsten E) with a wand attached to it.  It 
>must be small 
>and light and interface with a PC or Palm so the text could be used 
>later.  It needs some sort of display to verify what was scanned, show 
>memory usage, etc.
>
>This would really help when doing library research and just to extract 
>highlights from a book that I no longer want to keep.
>
>I think I saw a wand like this years ago.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA
>
>Joe
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