[muglo] Re: Portable Hand Scanners
- From: "Eric D" <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:04:22 -0500
Use a digicam in "macro" mode. They're much quicker than the old hand
scanners and you can use them for other stuff too.
>From: Tee Cashmore <tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [muglo] Re: Portable Hand Scanners
>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:35:53 -0500
>
>Ilbert Walker wrote:
>
> >Many years ago I seem to remember there was marketed a portable
> >handheld scanner (for the Mac?) with which you could scan , say, a
> >newspaper or magazine column or book paragraph , and then dump it into
> >a word processor. A sort of portable 'coupon clipper' for info
> >addicts.
> >
> >Does anyone use one of these ? - or know anything about their current
> >availability, source, cost etc ?? Battery or power operated ?
> >
> >I seem to remember one of the problems related to a restricted width,
> >which entailed having to
> >'electronically stitch' two columns together. Can they also input
> >graphics or photos ?
> >
> >Obviously not a substitute for a flatbed page scanner, but easier to
> >carry around, and for capturing small amounts of page information.
> >
> >Google didn't provide me much info - anyone else out there ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Ilbert
> >
>Actually I have two of them, us Apple IIGS guys got them before the big
>guys, but the only difference in the end was software. The best ones
>were called "Quickie" scanners & one of the disadvantages was that you
>had to sort of teach it to recognize some letters. Yes, you also had to
>stitch columns together, but that was pretty easy. Pics were quite good.
>TTFN,
>TeeC
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