I second Vivian. I have one and almost never use it. I use my single
sheet feed Brother DSMobile 600 far more for pictures, articles and
books without a decent spine that I don't mind chopping. Basically,
though, I use my OpticBook 99% of the time for ease of operation.
Valerie
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*From:* Vivian Flores <vivian@xxxxxxxx>
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Fri, October 5, 2012 2:08:35 PM
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Has anyone used a vupoint magic wand
portable scanner?
Hi Judy;
I received one as a gift last year, I think it was the vupoint. I
ended up returning it. I thought it was great to scan a few pages, and
great if you need the portability, but to scan an entire book it was
very tedious, plus you had to have a very steady hand. I have several
books that I scanned that were "fragile" and I used the plustek optic
book, scanning in 1 page at a time. That seemed to work well.
Vivian
At 01:54 PM 10/5/2012 -0500, you wrote:
> Has anyone used a vupoint portable scanner to try and scan pages
from a book? I've got a friend who loves hers as she is getting
really good scans on pages from books she needs for a project but
can't check out from the library. I'd never heard of them before. I'm
not sure if they require vision to use either. They're totally
portable, run on batteries, no computer needed to do the scanning
itself. Abbyy OCR software is included for when you transfer the
images to your computer.
>
> They're called VuPoint Magic Wand portable scanners. They put the
images on a micro SD card, to transfer to a computer later. You can
download the images from the scanner with bluetooth or a usb cable too.
>
> I'd love to know more about them from anyone who has tried one. From
what she said, it's shaped like a thick wand, and you hold the wand in
your hand and just run it down the page with the sensor against the
page of the book for it to scan.
>
> Judy s.
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