Anyone using a hand held (size of Pen) text scanner?

[Kevin Palmer]

I need to get info from text books into my computer. However, I want to do it while I am flying 5 days a week. So it can not be corded and must allow for me to upload to my compluter.



I have found the, "Wizcom WSP1000P SuperPen Professional by Wizcom" and the "Wizcom SP1000V SuperPen Translator by Wizcom." But to be honest, I am not seeing the difference in them...



Any suggestions or help would be apprecited.



Thanks in advance...

 

[Rodger Tellefson]

I just checked CNET.com under Reviews/Peripherals/scanner type/hand held. There are 3 hand held pen type scanners ranging in price from $156 to $249; also look at where they found the best price.

 

[gary s]

i am using a logitech "pen" for my job on a project we are doing. we had some issue's with the pen not reading the correct info. it is still in the test mode and i will be using it again tonight and i will have some more info tomorrow.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Just bumping it up....

 

[Richard L]

Kevin,

Just a helpful tip. Anytime you scan text and run it through OCR (Optical Character Recognition software, be sure to store the text in a wordprocessing file where you can run a spell-checker on it. OCR has been known to misinterpret some text fonts.



...Rich

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Good info Rich.

It will be going to Microsoft Word 2007 version.

Thanks...