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Portable Scanner Solutions for Research?

Posted by Cliff on from the I-am-now-officially-a-Mac-head dept.

Fished asks: "Lately, I'm finding that I need to do a lot of research in Libraries -- remember those? I'm tired of feeding dimes to the copiers, and would like to buy some kind of portable scanner to go with my Powerbook. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find one that will work. Back in the eighties, this were as common as dirt: they were small, four inch wide scanners that you could run over the page. Also, while I've found three portable scanners for PC's (from Antec and Pentax) even if I could somehow get them to work with Mac OS X, they are sheet-fed, which is useless for scanning pages out of books. Does anyone still make the old-fashioned Hand Scanners, and do they make them for Macs?"

8 of 421 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Digital Camera + OCR by kalidasa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, yes, the digital version of the Hogan's Heroes approach.

  2. Jesus Tits by kuroth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try Google

    What's next? "Ask Slashdot: Getting Drops Off My Cock After Pissing"?

    1. Re:Jesus Tits by Psmylie · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would recommend the Ronco (tm) Electric Penis Dryer (patent pending).

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    2. Re:Jesus Tits by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...the Ronco (tm) Electric Penis Dryer...

      Typical Americans. Spend a billion to develop a pen that will write in space, and the Russians use a pencil.

      Spend Millions developing an Electric Penis Dryer(tm) when the rest of the world just uses their pant leg. When will they learn? How many children could have been fed on those development costs?

      Think of the children! (not to mention the shocking results of the lab testing on that product!)

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  3. Sheet Fed Solution by JonTurner · · Score: 5, Funny

    "they are sheet-fed, which is useless for scanning pages out of books"
    Not if you tear out the pages, first.

  4. Re:I know 499 people have suggested this, by dildatron · · Score: 4, Funny

    *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* CONGRATULATIONS! You are the 500th poster to recommend the same thing! You have won a prize! What do we have for him, Johnny?

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  5. Then he asked the wrong question... by bhsx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you'd do well with the answer to "Ask Slashdot: How to properly use a search engine"

    I think you should try playing around with different search parameters... Try these is google:

    +"handheld scanner" +apple -win32 -windows -linux

    +"network scanner" +nessus +linux -ethereal -ettercap

    +"linux terminal server project" +openmosix -mosix

    +"need for speed" +"jenna jameson" -playstation -ps2

    I think if you follow the noticeable pattern above that you will no longer have such a hard time with those nasty good for nothing search engines;)

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  6. Re:Here's one gripe I have about slashdot. by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think your post would be a good candidate for a new type of /. submission. I think we could call it "Tell Slashdot". :-)