Portable scanner for documents

Portable

With optical character recognition, automatically converts scanned documents to editable files

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making mundane items interesting.?

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Ehm... Not to be negative they're nothing to scream for in terms of quality, but they already exist.

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A new way to start highlighting my whole psych textbook xD I'll literally be scanning the whole textbook instead of just highlighting all the words hahahaha

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This is an amazing device though

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@Few years back, LG had a scanning mouse (computer pointing mouse, just in case you think it's the biological one..)

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@ don't know why it didn't become a hit. Maybe because the lack of smart phones and stuff.?

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@ass! Imagine being able to read your books at night in the car (when someone else is driving of course

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?Lol. This is literally what the first personal scanners were back in the eighties. This isn't new, just faster than the original.

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@There is an app called CAMSCANNER that will do this

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@ut it won't save documents as word file or traslate unlike this thing can.

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@ow about a phone app that take a pic and converts it to pdf/jpeg

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why? Just take a smartphone pic and use an app to convert to pdf, etc...''

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would be really handy for realstate, wouldn't it?

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@this could be really good for your animations as well!

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Very interesting! Has anyone tried to scan something large size, say A1 or 840x1200mm area?

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@I used to have an LG mouse scanner (work similarly but not wireless), and it's not practical at all.

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@hanks, i read something similar elsewhere. It would be nice if it works, then I can scan some very large sheets for texture.

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@ou can scan larger area with it, but as theyve mentioned it takes some practice

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THIS!!!

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@out damn time something like this is out for consumers...my wait is over

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@his bothers me?

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@ol wtf with the person who reacted it bothers me ?

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Cool.... but why not use one of the countless scanner apps that take advantage of your device's camera

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