[bksvol-discuss] Re: Has anyone used a vupoint magic wand portable scanner?
- From: Em Rose <uvabookworm27@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:46:57 -0400
Hi Judy,
I got one when I first started scanning for Bookshare. For portability, it was
great. It is about the length of a ruler and about an inch thick, so it is easy
to throw in your bag. And if you are very careful, you can get a pretty decent
scan - greyscale, black and white, or color. You operate it by swiping it
across the page. On the bottom side of it, there is the scanning glass and next
to it are wheels. As long as the wheels are spinning, it will continue to scan.
However, it was very time consuming. Because of the way it operates, you have
to work at a very steady pace. Too fast and your scan will run over top of
itself. If you don't hold it level all the way down the page, the image comes
out warped and then the OCR can't read it. Also, unless you have a book with
wide margins, the wheels end up running off the page before the glass has
picked up everything.
I still use mine if I'm traveling or like your friend to take to the library
for books that can't leave. But I take a laptop with me too so I can download
the images and to check how many need to be rescanned.
Em
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Vivian Flores <vivian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Judy;
>
> I received one as a gift last year, I think it was the vupoint. I ended up
> returning it. I thought it was great to scan a few pages, and great if you
> need the portability, but to scan an entire book it was very tedious, plus
> you had to have a very steady hand. I have several books that I scanned that
> were "fragile" and I used the plustek optic book, scanning in 1 page at a
> time. That seemed to work well.
> Vivian
>
> At 01:54 PM 10/5/2012 -0500, you wrote:
>> Has anyone used a vupoint portable scanner to try and scan pages from a
>> book? I've got a friend who loves hers as she is getting really good scans
>> on pages from books she needs for a project but can't check out from the
>> library. I'd never heard of them before. I'm not sure if they require
>> vision to use either. They're totally portable, run on batteries, no
>> computer needed to do the scanning itself. Abbyy OCR software is included
>> for when you transfer the images to your computer.
>>
>> They're called VuPoint Magic Wand portable scanners. They put the images on
>> a micro SD card, to transfer to a computer later. You can download the
>> images from the scanner with bluetooth or a usb cable too.
>>
>> I'd love to know more about them from anyone who has tried one. From what
>> she said, it's shaped like a thick wand, and you hold the wand in your hand
>> and just run it down the page with the sensor against the page of the book
>> for it to scan.
>>
>> Judy s.
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