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>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:23:21 -0400
>From: David Kleinberg <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners
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LLTI-Editor wrote:
> From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: August 24, 2007 6:54:47 PM EDT
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I sent this query out about 2 weeks ago with no results. Perhaps it
> fell into the just-before-it-all-breaks-loose-at-the-start-of-the-
> semester lull, or perhaps this isn't something that many of us have
> experience with...
>
> Either way, I would still appreciate any input that anyone can
> provide on the following:
>
> 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 (perhaps field-tested) or even indirect
> 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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Logitech used to make exactly what you are looking for but that was many
years ago, and they seem to have gotten out of the scanning business.
A quick Google search of handheld scanners turns up the following.
Check out the DocuPen R700 Document Scanner for black and white:
http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/docupen_r700_handheld_scanner
or DocuPen RC800 Handheld Color Scanner for color scans:
http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/docupen_rc800_handheld_color_scanner
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