CapShare Portable E-Copier - Hardware Review - Brief Article - Evaluation

I've found this HP hand scanner to be the most helpful new research tool since the invention of the notecard. It's actually portable and it actually works! Wipe this Walkman-sized device back and forth across your document--in any direction or speed--and the little genie inside reassembles the fragments into a perfect scan, thanks to a double laser eye tracking system. The result is a 300 dpi bitmap or greyscale scan with quality rivaling that of the bulky thing taking up half your desk. Think of it as a portable digital copy machine. A lower resolution mode lets you scan posters up to 4 feet square. And a single button click and the scans are downloaded to your laptop via a wireless infrared port.

I use it to collect and organize all sorts of research fragments. It's popular in legal offices for copying documents on the road. I've used it make digital notecards of newspaper articles, gather text fragments from the library, scan images from airline magazines or conference charts, or to capture a thousand other fleeting texts and images on the go.

HP CapShare 920 Portable E-Copier
$300
www.capshare.com

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