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Word Scanner
A tool that copies text from a written document directly onto a word processing file- | |
You're reading a summer reading book and you need to copy quotes into the computer to create a table. You're bored, and sick of constantly highlighting, and then copying the text into the computer. Your scanner doesn't put the text into a usable form.
You could use a Word Scanner. This handy little
pen shaped scanner, would be used like a highlighter over the text that needed to be copied. It would save the text, and when hooked up to a computer would directly copy the words into the computer. Quick, simple, affordable, and easy. No more tedious quote typing for you!
Like this?
http://www.maplin.c...eImages/25682i0.jpg
I have one of these. Works precisely as described. £30. ($45 US, $90 AUS) [angel, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Manufacturer's site for the above item
http://www.pocketreader.com/
[angel, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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OCR scanner, maybe? Hmm.. |
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These pen-like OCR scanners exist. My father-in-law, who has become a Chelsea Pensioner, bought one. |
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PocketReader is no longer available - at Manufacturer's site, anyway. I could *really* use something like this. |
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Maplin still list it (my first link); failing that, there's the C-Pen (Ithink), which is a lot more expensive. |
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