--- Forwarded Message from "Lauersdorf, Mark R" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" <[log in to unmask]>
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>CC: "Ruder, Cynthia" <[log in to unmask]>,        "[log in to unmask]"
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>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:18:57 -0400
>Subject: hand-held scanners
>Thread-Topic: hand-held scanners
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Hello all,

A colleague is looking for a hand-held scanner for library/archival work
while on research trips.

I have done a bit of legwork on the internet and it seems that many of the
portable scanners are sheet-fed [which, of course, does not work for books -
the archivist may frown on detaching individual pages from bound
materials... ;-) ] or are designed first and foremost for automatic OCR
rather than "simple imaging".

My colleague would like to find a hand-held scanner that does high-quality
image scans (or potentially .pdf) since she works with materials where there
are likely to be illustrations in addition to text.  Any necessary OCR can,
of course, be done from the images/pdfs at home.  She would be mating the
scanner to a Mac laptop on her trips.

Does anyone have any direct (maybe even field-tested) experience with any of
the better hand-helds out there?

Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide us.

Mark



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