Hand-held scanner for images – Not barcodes

[AlanKW]

I have a friend that does research in public records for deeds, titles, etc… Making copies of the documents is a regular part of the job. Although most of these places have copy machines, the copy fees are severely inflated, sometimes to the point of $2 a page. Although these costs get passed to the client, it can add up to some serious out-of-pocket expenses that may take months to collect.

I got to thinking about hand-held scanners, and I remember seeing some ages ago that could scan 4 or 5” widths or like was used by Charlie Sheen in Wall St. If I look online and in catalogs, I see plenty of hand-held scanners; however they are all advertised as bar-code scanners.

So my question is – can anyone recommend a hand-held scanner that can scan in full-page widths into internal memory or directly into a laptop? OCR is probably not a must-have, but may be nice.

TIA

-alan
[santa2]

 

[viol8ion]

type into google:
C-Technologies C-Pen 600 Hand-Held Scanner


When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com

 

[ceh4702]

I think I have seen scannes designed to work with laptops that are narrow about the width of a piec of paper. They let you feed the paper througn and scan the page. This is fine if the paper is the right size and you dont have to scan a ledger. In the past I have seen scanners that you pass over the top of the paper.

Here is something I found:

http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=38-113-002-03.JPG/38-113-002-02.JPG/38-113-002-01.JPG

http://www1.dealtime.com/xPO-Iris_I_R_I_S_IRISPen_II_Executive

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[AlanKW]

Thank you for the responses - I will pass them along. The C Technologies one looks pretty interesting.

 

[AlanKW]

Unfortunately none of these work for her. She needs to scan in the whole page as an image (so the raised seal is evident as are signatures) and the pages are in volumes so she cant quite rip them out to feed through the Visioneer.
Thanks anyways.

If anyone knows of anything else, please post as I'll keep my "notify" on for this one.

 

[ANFPS26]

Here is one example I found with Google:

http://www.autarchic.com/warranty.aspx

Try searching with Google for handheld scanners for more.

Jim