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.
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