I recently bought an LG LSM-100 Scanner Mouse. The LSM-100 is useful to me because I have a large book which has been cleared and I can't use a standard flatbed scanner because the book is extremely heavy and, I fear, somewhat fragile - I'd rather not risk pages teraing/falling out owing to the stresses involved inusing a flatbed scanner. I don't have the motivation to build a DIY arrangement using a digital camera. The LSM-100 has one or two personality traits, but I find I can work with it to my satisfaction. Essentially, you pass the mouse over the page in a side-to-side and top-to-bottom motion to scan the page. I've found it helpful to use a quite stiff craft cutting board under each page to help support the mouse when it approaches the edge of a page where it might 'fall off' the edge. The package includes OCR software and seems to work well for my purposes. I would recommend folks take a look at this device if you have similar requirements to me. Roger On 5 February 2012 20:02, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
portable scanner. looks like a 3-hole punch.
take a look, and set a price, in your head, that is the maximum price that you'd pay.
then look at the prices. see what you say.
good -- just the scanner:
better -- scanner plus abbyy, so it does o.c.r. itself:
best -- scanner plus abbyy plus wi-fi, syncs to the cloud:
could be a game-changer for some of you...
-bowerbird
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