--- Forwarded Message from "Lee Ramsdell" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: RE: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners >Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:42:09 -0600 >In-Reply-To: A<[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Topic: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners >Thread-Index: Acfo0WBTtQeDz+6xRUaDlP20mI1augA4W4nA >References: A<[log in to unmask]> >From: "Lee Ramsdell" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Hi We have had good results from a product called Docupen. Their web site is http://www.planon.com/ . You can get a number of software programs by Abby Fine Reader that include OCR. It is hand held and it does require a little practice in using it, however it yields good results. We have only used it on PC hardware but according to the web site you can use it on a Mac. Currently DocuPen is supported by MAC OSX 10.3.9 and up and has not been certified to work on Mac Intel based machines. Regards Lee Ramsdell, Technical Supervisor Arts Resource Centre Room 130 - A1, Arts Building Phone 780-492-2142 Cell 780-952-8820 -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:40 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners 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 ----- end of message to be posted to LLTI ---- Otmar Foelsche [log in to unmask] Director, Humanities Resources 6192 Bartlett Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-3530 Phone: +1-603-646-8180 Mobile: +1-617-851-5290 Fax: +1-603-646-2712 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************