Planon DocuPen Handheld Portable Scanner

steve — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:42:49 +0000

This portable scanner is designed by Planon Systems which is a leading company in producing new innovative electronics. This item is very small, lightweight and literally looks like a pen. It comes in four colors that allow you to express youself. It uses PaperPort technology designed by Nuance which makes document scanning an ideal experience. This feature is very important and allows files and documents to be found easily. It also helps keep your scanned items organized and ensures capability of sharing records. The DocuPen also has Microsoft Word, Outlook, Wordpad and Notepad intergrated in as a feature. Most scanners include this as well as it helps configure your papers, documents, files, pictures and all scanned items into the appropriate program. This tiny little pen shaped mobile scanner is also capable of scanning pictures and then editing them through a variety of graphic programs implemented within. One feature that that I have to rave about is the fact that this portable scanner features Optical Character Recognition which enables all items scanned that have text to be edited. This is a wonderful aspect of this product because not all scanners allow editing of text and this tiny item has it all. There are two different versions of this mobile scanner available, the R700 and the R800 and both include additional attributes of ABBY FineReader, the Optical Character Recognition mentioned earlier and PDF conversion software. The PDF software may seem like a standard feature but it is very beneficial with uprising of documents being in PDF format. This item is an excellent purchase and has an extremely high level of recognition accuracy and format retention. DocuPen is one of the best portable scanners out there because it has the capability to hold hundreds of documents in its memory and can scan an entire page in just a few seconds. This product is perfect for any work or school atmosphere and fits nicely into your pocket. It does the job better then most scanners and can be purchased at select stores. The R800 retails for $299.99 and the R700 retails for $199.99.

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Planon Docupen R700 B&W Pen Scanner (DPENR700)

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Wizcom Infoscan TS Elite Portable Pen Scanner

steve — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:51:03 +0000

This product is a handheld scanner shaped in the form of a thick pen or highlighter. It comes with a five line touch screen that enables you to view what you have already scanned. This item is able to define words that have been scanned that are unknown in definition because it comes with an American Heritage dictionary installed. Therefore if you scan documents that have words that you are unfamiliar with, you will be able to identify what they mean easily with one touch. Not only does this handheld scanner come with a dictionary but it also tells you how certain words are supposed to be pronounced. This is done by WIZCOM’s text to speech technology which enables you o hear how words sound and how they are pronounced. This portable scanner has a memory of 20,000 lines and after it is all filled up you can transfer scanned items into computer files. A USB cable is not required for this portable scanner but is useful if you have one. It will ensure faster transferring of scanned items to there proper locations on your PC. Infoscan TS elite pen is also able to transfer documents into your PDA which is useful for those on the go. It can also transfer files onto your computer as most scanners do. This is done through IrDA or serial ports. Mobile scanners are useful for a variety of people like lawyers, doctors, teachers, students and so forth. It enables scanning of important documents like like labs, pathology reports, legal papers, text book information, credit card statements, business cards, insurance cards, ID cards, licenses and much more. The possibilities are endless! This device has 400 by 400 dpi resolution and comes with USB ports. Users of this item however, are not as fond as the manufactures are. People say that it does not read scanned information properly and even with different approaches the product did not prevail. Although, to make up for the lack of scanning, the menu functions are easy to use. This is one of those 50/50 products that you as the buyer need to user your own discretion upon. It retails for $229.99. **Update December 2010: This model doesn’t seem to be available anymore but Amazon has the new Infoscan2 up on their website – see link below.

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Wizcom Infoscan2 Scanning Pen

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