Cool Pen Sized Scanner

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This is just too cool! - A pen sized color scanner!

http://www.planonstore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=21

So it looks like I can scan just about anything and then use Paperport to view it and do touch up work on my Shift.

This is a mobile professionals dream!

I just got my first shift and now that I am extra mobile, it's time to start looking at all those nice toys to go with it!

I'll probably purchase this in the near future and let you know how it goes.

Here is a video of it too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zQHt1AVavM&feature=related


And it looks like they make a small bluetooth thermal printer too!

If anyone has these already, can you please post your experience with it?
I've very interested (and tempted) to get one! (but only after I upgrade my Hard Drive and SD card)

This is cool, you can scan and save imags to an SD Card; so no need for a PC next to you.

I just watched the youtube clip, wow... Definitely a useful product.

I read lots of reviews on this thing and most are bad

From my own experience of an old hand scanner I had, it is very difficult to run the scanner at an even speed and not get a wobbly scanned image. Unless there is some sort of mechanism in this new one that will even out the speed variation you get when you move the scanner down the page, I cannot see any use for it. But there is always hope for new technologies. *__*

pen scanner

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Originally Posted by wovens

From my own experience of an old hand scanner I had, it is very difficult to run the scanner at an even speed and not get a wobbly scanned image. Unless there is some sort of mechanism in this new one that will even out the speed variation you get when you move the scanner down the page, I cannot see any use for it. But there is always hope for new technologies. *__*

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couldnt agree more...using planon docupen 800rc for 2yrs now, and never, i could get usable results, on the side of the poor scaning technology, bad battery and lousy sync software...if this scanner was to be used in real life
situations and you are to depend on it...better stick to good old flatbeds

I've read some bad reviews on this.

Meanwhile, you can use the digital camera to input your documents. Even for Abby Fine Reader for example. If you need higher resolution, you can use software to combine multple pictures to one.