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--- Forwarded Message from David Kleinberg <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:23:21 -0400 >From: David Kleinberg <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: #8607.1 (!) hand-held scanners >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > ----- 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]) > *********************************************** > 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 -- David Kleinberg, Ph.D. Language Lab Director, Instructor of German Department of Modern Languages Winthrop University 310 Kinard Hall, Rock Hill, SC Telephone: (803) 323-4660 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.winthrop.edu/modernlanguages/ *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************