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Posted by Jack Crawford
May 4, 2010 at 02:41 AM
OneNote has a very useful scanning feature. Perhaps not the tool for high volume work, but very handy for ad hoc scanning.
Jack
Posted by Lawrence Osborn
May 4, 2010 at 06:53 AM
dan7000 wrote:
>I used to be a big fan of my “Infoscan” handheld scanner. It’s like a big highlighter
>that you use to scan in individual lines of text. It does OCR on the fly and shows you the
>results on a little LED screen on the device itself so you can decide to re-scan that
>line. A big plus for me is that it has its own data storage, and holds some 200 pages
I have been using an IRISPen Express for many years. It works in a similar manner to the Infoscan except that it doesn’t do the OCR itself so it has to be connected to your laptop or whatever. It works well with XP Pro and drivers are also available for OS X.
Lawrence
Posted by pereh
May 4, 2010 at 07:34 PM
Many thanks to all who have anwered my inquiry!
‘Prizmo’ is Mac-only; however, I have tried taking pictures and scan them with OCR software. The results depend on the input, of course, and to take dozens of pictures with a tripod while reading, well…
(B.t.w., during these tests I discovered the amazing OCR capability of ‘OneNote’. Since then I use it to store all invoices etc.)
I had the idea of scanning while reading, so a handheld scanner would be fine. ‘Irispen’ and ‘Infoscan’ look promising, but from what I read their results sometimes need a lot of rework.
Posted by WSP
May 4, 2010 at 09:12 PM
Evernote, like OneNote, does an OCR operation on every image in a note, but unfortunately in EN it’s not possible to extract the text; the OCR is done only for search purposes.