Quick Scan - Portable Rechargeable Handheld Scanner
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Needing a scanner in a hurry, I ordered this TaoTronics TT-DS011 model from Amazon - here's a video.
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Fun fact : some scanners and color photocopiers include a bit of software that is capable of detecting bank notes, which makes them throw an error. This one obviously doesn't have that protection built-in. But, in the words of the great Tom Scott : "If you are forging bank notes with a color photocopier, something has probably gone wrong with your life".
They're not detecting the bank notes but the so called "Eurion" constellation. You can even print that onto your own documents so some colour copiers will deny copies of them. Here's more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Mad SpacePig The £5 note probably includes the usual "EURion constellation" pattern, though. That's how bank notes are detected. The quote is from a comprehensive video from Tom Scott about that pattern.
My Cannon MP495 scanned a US$20 bill without any problems. But I was unable to view/edit it the jpg in Photoshop-9. Recieved a pop-up box warning. Windows Photo Viewer did display the jpg. Was able to scan the $20 into a pdf, and view it.
dfc99nyc Yes, it's weird how it only gets picked by some software. I wonder if the companies that actually implements the detection are asked by various official institutions to do so?
For reference, on this bill those yellow circles on white area are the Eurion constellation and what triggers most of those warnings.
You really have a knack of making mundane items interesting.
I think it's because he is James May brother
Is he really?
They would both deny that fact. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT
No - though the voices are certainly very similar!
No offence implied or meant, but if you were from England, you wouldn't say that Techoan and James May, sound the same.
if you attached it to the back of your vacuum cleaner, you could scan your floor as you clean, to check the efficiency of the vacuum.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So much utility in this com', can you return under the bed ?
how do you come up with something like that? :) :)
Lovely. May I suggest few more places where you can put this scanner to use? I mean other than the floor.......God! Forgive them even if they know what they are doing.
Lovely piece. Very useful.
Wow! I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that tape box..between 1964 and 1969 I worked next door to CTS at Zenith Films!!!. I used to help out on film score music sessions in CTS...I ran the click track projector, while Sid Davies ran the main image...I was present for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines", "Help", "What's New Pussycat", "The Loved One" among others,and many TV series. What memories this has stirred...oh, and J.J. Jingles would be Johnny Johnson, who used to own CTS. He was a fabulous, larger than life bloke, who drove an Alvis.
the line is a spec of dust on the glass. I own an imaging service bureau. . . common problem.
Sean Martin Thanks for pointing this out, I was thinking the same thing.
i know this frustration well
I am impressed by the tech, but man, do they have a lot of inherent limitations and problems. I'll take a flat bed any day, it is rare when it is much of a convenience anyway..
Honestly, I think the main benefit is to get scans from things like books without completely destroying the spine, etc, in a flatbed.
@Michael Persico Money. Textbook publishers charge a ridiculous amount for digital copies and they can only be given to one student due to DRM, whereas regular books can be reused and therefore end up cheaper in the long term.
I just wanted to let you know that you're really good at this. Some people can't talk about things without being boring, or making one want to leave the page quickly. Your easy going manner of speaking, clarify and good descriptions of products and vintage equipment makes me want to watch.
Keep up the great work. :)
By the way, the line does not mean you got a dead pixel, it just means that, the scanning windows has dust on, aka you need to clean the scanning window. That's the reason why you get a cleaning cloth in the box. Usually after cleaning it should have no dark lines, unless you got a dead pixel of course.
"Lets take this generic random item and do a video" - 10 minutes later I have watched it and as usual kept my attention and really enjoyed it. Something about your honest style, showing all the relevant details and not spending 10 hours doing unboxing or explaining how wonderful an item is.
Please keep doing what you do about all weird and wonderful items, always enjoy your excellent content. It is always exciting to see a new Techmoan video!
Wow! WOW! They brought back handheld scanners!?
These were around in the mid-late 1980s, before flatbeds got cheap. Flatbed scanners could be from 200 - 500 quid, British pounds, back around the mid-late 1980s. 500 quid in 1988 is over 1,200 quid in today's money. So handheld ones were a cheaper option. Usually black and white. In fact flatbeds were usually black and white too, colour cost a good chunk extra.
=== WARNING, lots of irrelevant reminiscing about PCs of the olden days ===
The old handhelds were a bit smaller, only half as wide as an A4 page, so you'd need to scan in strips. Then paste them together in an art program, or special scanning program. At the time machines didn't have the processing power to align halves of scans automatically, so you'd do it by hand. Rotating the image would be pretty pointless, so get your alignment right! They had comparitively low res, too, compared to today.
The scanning was by hand, you dragged the scanner down the page, at as constant a rate you could manage. No motors. They were cheaper than flatbeds, but still over 100 quid. Falling down to maybe 80 quid in the early 1990s. Still a fortune in now-money. After a few years, they disappeared as flatbeds entered their price range.
No USB back then, so later ones interfaced via the printer port. PC parallel ports back then had 5 input pins, used to send warnings about printer status back to the PC. "Paper out", as well as general "error", "busy", and "acknowledge". And finally "select", nobody on the Internet seems to know what that was for. Then there were 8 output pins from the PC, for sending the print data over, and a couple of control output bits too.
By using the 5 input pins for data, you could send 4 bits of data at a time, half a byte. The parallel port was designed to be read as fast as software could read it, so it was the fastest connector on the PC, assuming you didn't have SCSI. And a PC with SCSI could cost double that of one without, at least. Only people with Macs, and expensive design types, had SCSI.
So, people connected scanners, as well as stuff like external tape drives, and even external disks and CD-ROM drives, through the parallel port. It wasn't fast enough. Meant scanning took a long time. So as a solution for that, Intel, Microsoft, et al, invented the Enhanced Parallel Port, EPP. And also ECP. They were meant to be more general-purpose ports for connecting hardware to, meant to be a versatile, general, high-speed connector for all sorts of peripherals.
And that lasted a couple of years, before everyone realised it was a shambles, so somebody invented USB. And that was much better! Except, after a year or two they realised it was full of bugs and slow, so they invented USB 1.1. Which was still slow, so they invented USB 2. Then USB 3, and I'm pretty sure USB 5 is in the pipeline.
And *THAT*, my friends, is the story of how annoying it used to be to use scanners! And the scanners all had their own software and drivers, and THAT was a huge pain in the arse to get working too. Under DOS or Windows 3.1. Which I don't remember as being too bad, but maybe we had lower expectations back then.
So, scanners, used to be expensive and annoying. And now they've reinvented handheld scanners, I suppose for the one thing they're good for. Now that PCs all have suitable connectors, and drivers already included, or off the Internet.
On and the parallel port scanners were the *easy* method. The ones before that, you had to connect a custom card onto your PC's motherboard, with a custom connector on it.
PCs were more fun in the old days.
Yeah I had one in the late 80s. Wasn't wide enough to scan an A4 page, you had to do it in two sweeps and stitch the result together!
Theres still no USB 5 but rather USB 4(an open source version of thunderbolt)....
They are amazing however - for scanning posters and stitching them togehher via autostich...
good read, thx
Always wondered how well these work.
Why is it only one of a million videos this simple understandable and interesting as this one on TH-cam
Always wondered how these things adjust for variances in your movement speed as you're scanning.
I've never actually used one myself, although I do have a few from the '90s lying around.
I remember seeing, years ago now, this kind of "wand" scanner, but instead of a roller to tell the scanner how fast you were moving, the scanner looked at the actual _texture_ of the paper to work out where it was and how far/fast you'd moved it :O
You didn't have to roll it straight, either. You could kind of "wave it" around as you moved it over the page, and the scanner would make sure everything was still lined up.
Would make a great Oddware review if you can find one! :D
Well fancy seeing LGR here!
Makes sense though, I guess; try one of those silly mice that doubled as scanners, always worth an extremely blurry and slightly crinkled look
Lazy Game Reviews I have a few. I must see if they work.
The wheels on the bottom are probably connected to rotary encoders that trigger off the sensor each time it moves one notch, same sort of thing that's in your mouse wheel but much more sensitive.
"Have a few lying around" Wow, how much of a hoarder are you LGR? lol.
Concise, accurate and enjoyable video! Portability a key point and if it's lost, stolen, damaged or not returned, no big deal.
Good review - and the unit looks OK for what it is. I imagine the key utility of devices like this is either to be stuffed in a laptop bag and used to scan documents away from the desk, but also maybe to scan stuff that's too awkward to fit on the flatbed - for example, carton labels.
Holy crap! I was JUST looking at buying this exact product in amazon literally 10 mins ago. Great upload timing!
Whoa a modern scanner that lets you scan bank notes. On almost all flatbed scanners nowadays, if you try to scan a bank note, the scanner will purposely crash and not let you scan it. Theres little yellow circles on many countries notes that trigger the scanner to crash.
Photoshop also will throw up this error message: "This application does not support the editing of banknote images" too if you manage to get it scanned.
An HP deskjet will scan banknotes like a champ...
That's the most pointless thing ever. If you can't scan the banknote, you can just take a photo of it. If Photoshop won't let you edit the bank note, then just open it with another program like GIMP. The idea of trying to prevent people to take/edit pictures of bank notes is stupid, there's no way to stop that at all and there will always be a workaround.
handy to scan text from thick books or things that dont fit in a flatbed
Also good for copying not removable items at the library.
Oh. I just steal them.
Your iPhone will still do a better job... I use mine all the time to quickly document stuff...
My first scanner way back in the late 80s was a handheld. There was a sense of wonder in pulling images from the paper by hand and making them into data on the screen, even in the low res of the time.
Mate, as always, love your videos. I saw this years ago, all good stuff. I actually own one of these, works great. About 3 years ago though, I found an "app" named "Tiny Scanner Pro" and love it!! Downloaded to my phone and does bang on great job.! Try that. Cheers! And keep'em coming!
Had this for a year+. Bought it cause it seemed to make sense for office manual copies. Couldn't figure it out. Watched your video and BOOM. Thank you.
I bought one of these a few years ago, and they work well enough for an on-the-go scanner, even better if you spring for the auto-sheet feeder add-on. Throw on a cheap battery bank and you can scan pretty much anything anywhere. I did seem to notice the same kind of line issues on mine that you did, but I've also been using mine solely for scanning documents, so it hasn't been as critical
I have a similar item, made by Vu-Point. It's a bit simpler; you don't get as many choices, BUT it does come with a document feeder to make the scanning even easier. I bought mine several years ago and scanned in better than 10,000 pictures for friends and family before it finally died on me. I have no issue at all with any of the pictures I scanned. I have also done documents, which it does well, too...I can't even estimate how many documents I scanned, in addition to all the photos. I have a flat bed scanner as well and, frankly, don't see an awful lot of difference in the final product created by the two. The hand (or wand) scanner is much quicker, though. I ordered a new wand scanner the day after my first one died. That, alone, is a testament to what I think of it.
What a difference a year makes. In 2017 I started using TurboScan that uses the iphone camera to do pretty good scans for up to legal sized documents. In 2019 I bought an Epson 50 scanner, not much bigger than the one in the video, only it has its own feeder for the tons of documents I need to maintain records of. Certainly improved my work process, even on the run.
I've used the "TurboScan" app on my phone for several years and it works a treat! I use it between 10 and 30 times a day at my job. Inexpensive, and always in my pocket/on my desk. It frames the item you're scanning, and turns it into a PDF or JPEG. It also allows you to save it to the cloud as well as message or email it.
I still have one of these! The best use for them is for genealogists. A lot of genealogy libraries don't allow checking out of certain older books and since I have to gather as much info as I can quickly (and not play around with their half-assed photocopiers) I have one of these instead. It works GREAT for that purpose, kind of a MUST HAVE for a serious genealogist.
the reason you have a line down the X-Wing picture scan is likely because theres a speck of dirt on the scanner, seems like a pretty cool device in all!
Seems OK as a basic document (rather than image) scanner. The ability to be completely cordless would be a big plus for me, and their website indicates pretty OK battery life and obviously significant ease of recharging (any USB charger). Might buy one.
That scanner reminds me of an object called a transposer. I remember my high school computer science teacher had one. We ended up scanning our favorite Far Side cartoons and then projected them onto a screen. I was amazed by the technology back then and had no idea of what was to come.
I remember the old handheld scanners from the early 90's. They were bigger and could only scan half of a page at at time. If you spent extra money you could even buy one that could color.
looks like a awesome portable scanner to get documents into a portable computer on the go! thanks for an informative video
That scanner is certainly much better than the photocopiers that businesses lived with for many years. Sometimes you just need a quick scan of something that is clearly legible and image fidelity does not matter that much. Only gripe about it is that the preview is a bit useless - would benefit from a wireless link to pc/mac/tablet for preview
ive had one of these for a few years now still in the box never used and a better brand. i guess ive always found my phone to be so quick and easy to use that i never bothered with this scanner.
If you want to use your camera and get a clearer picture, set your camera to manual, use a small aperture (Highest F-stop), and longer shutter time. If you use manual focus, set your focus to about 1/3rd of the depth. I'd also recommend using a remote button or shutter delay to remove any tripod shimmy blur.
My computer graphics professor had a similar portable scanner in 1991-92. It had a small florescent tube light to illuminate the document or photo. It had a serial port cable to connect to the computer and download the scanned image. I don't remember what brand it was but the box of the scanner had a cheetah or a lynx on it.
I once installed a scanner that was used for scanning very old fragile documents in very high resolution, it was basically a camera facing downwards with a space for a book, when you flipped a page it would automatically take a picture with no key-stoning, artifacts or lighting issues. I'd love to see a video talking about of these to figure out how it's able to take a picture of a page from a book and not have any key-stoning.
This was popular for business's travelers needing copies of the receipts. I think there is a version that allows you to scan large items with a paint brush motion and it auto paste the final product.
You should be on the BBC. You'd wreck Antique's Roadshow.
Some dust, lint or dirt on the sensor, will produce a bad line in your scan.
The first scanner I had was a hand-held one. I couldn't afford anything else at the time. It was a _Logitech 'Scanman'_ . It wasn't very wide. If you wanted to do anything wider than a photo you had to do it in strips which it stitched together at the end.
Loved your video and found it very helpful. My wife is a serious stampie...( stamp collector ) and I will give her one of these for Christmas as often she has to scan her stamp book pages and finds it very tedious to have to remove all the stamps to get a flat image.
Would have liked it if you had tested different speeds of scanning but I guess we'll do that.
Thanks again and cheers from Canada North
Wow it's actually better than I expected. I remember seeing those in my city back in the day and always thinking "wow, must be terrible trying to scan something with those". Now I want one
So what you've taught me is, when I want to make my own money, to use a camera. Right-o. ♥
And you need a special printer with white ink to go in the middle of the 'O's and '8's.
Why, Mike?
Well it was a joke, however with more and more countries using polymer banknotes, because the substrate is transparent poly something or rather, if you want anything white you need white ink/paint instead of just relying on the whiteness of the banknote material (usualt cotton).
Hmm, interesting, Mike. So not just 0s and 8s, but really anywhere that wasn't printed with a darker color than the background was supposed to be.
Looking at the large diagonal lines one between the clock and Churchill's portrait during the comparison you can see where the inconsistencies of the speed you move it at come into play. I was considering one of these for scanning things out of larger books that won't fit properly on a flatbed scanner, but the image quality isn't quite there for photographs as you evidenced. Top work again, great review.
To be completely honest, I don't see much of a point in a pocket scanner if you already have a cellphone with even a slightly decent camera. There are plenty of camera scanner apps for all phones and I used them plenty of times in college to scan notes.
Really loving the intro change :D.
9:45 "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." :)
At 7:08 even Winston Churchill is shaking his head yelling "Noooooo, don't scan me!!!" lol
I had a hand scanner when Windows 3.11 was the latest Windows version. Using this thing was complicated, I never quite could get it. It's nice to see technology progressed so nicely you only have to push the button.
That fine white line is a crease in the paper. It's very noticeable on black posters when they are folded.
Love your videos! FYI: A scanned four color process printed image is going to result in an image with Moire patterns no matter which scanner you use. This is due to the image being made up of tiny dots. You will never get a nice clean, crisp scanned image.
I have to say this scanner did very well. And I agree, it looks like you have a dead pixel.
Dankie/ Merci. I have always thought that some day some one in West will make it handheld scanner. Great! Most likely it will cost an arm and leg in Africa.
I have a Doxie portable scanner, its fantastic for documents! Made my quest to go paperless with all my paperwork so much easier! Super easy to create searchable pdfs, so much better than having a filling cabinet full of crap
And I thought hand scanners were a thing of the past.
Old skool!
Great for when you're on the road, you can slip it into a production case as wherever you end up never has a scanner ready to use on the first few days!
Er, 400DPI _is_ the resolution! STE's high res, on screen, was 640x400, or 640x200 med-res, in 4 colours. Low-res 320x200 glorious pixels, in 16 beautiful colours, from an overflowing palette of 4,096! Or a palette of 512 for the basic ST.
That means the STE's palette had one extra bit per RGB channel. 12-bit palette vs 9-bit. Bit of a swizz, really, considering what a big deal they made of it. Same colour palette as one of the Am*ga's modes. STE also had the Blitter though, which could copy chunks of data (particularly graphics on the screen) round quickly. Meant games could be a lot quicker, although since ST's didn't have one, most games wouldn't bother using it, for compatibility's sake.
Apart from that the STE had no extra graphics modes. The blitter would have made higher-res, more colourful modes practical, it could've copied the extra graphics data around much quicker than the machine's CPU. They could have done med-res with, say, 16 colours, or 256 in low-res, just like the IBM PC's lo-res VGA mode.
Shame they didn't bother, but the ST was really Atari's hack. They originally tried some business trickery to steal the Amiga's design without having to properly pay for it. It backfired, so they ended up with no computer for sale, after having bragged about one.
The Amiga was very much the successor to Atari's old 8-bit range. Graphics hardware very similar, and the 8-bit Ataris were the best and most powerful 8-bit machines going! Twice the processor speed as competitors, and a fantastic co-processor doing just graphics. 128 colours. All sorts of fantastic stuff! The Amiga's graphics were very much a logical extension of the same ideas, but with more powerful microchips available.
But... no! Although a good point of the ST's very simple design meant that it could run Apple Mac software without much tweaking. Simple bitmapped display, flat memory, and a 68000 CPU. You could get soft Mac emulators, pure software, and ran Mac stuff at nearly full speed. A hardware emulator just contained the Mac ROMs on a cartridge.
Sorry, I've digressed a bit. Again! Sorry! *DIGRESSION WARNING!* *AGAIN!*
For flatbed scanners you get all those famous brands to choose from. For hand scanner? Well only cheap Chinese brand that nobody heard before. And in most cases, they don't have a brand at all.
Thus it's normal that hand scanners aren't that famous (if this is the word to use). Actually I don't even know such thing already exists until I try to buy a scanner.
No, 野龍, there's the Logitech ScanMan handheld scanner too.
Haha, Ray Jim!
I remember, when my family got our first computer (a Packard Bell running Windows 3 point something), we had a scanner that you'd have to move across the paper by hand. It had a cord that plugged into the computer, so it wasn't cordless, like this is.
Anyway… This seems like a pretty darn good scanner, given the nature of its hand-operation. But imagine building a track for it to run on, and a stepper motor to move it along at a reliable pace that could be set as a setting, and reproduced later, using the same settings.
Have the older version of this scanner. I really like it! The older version didn't come with a card, and is powered by 4 AAs.
As a teacher, this would be a really efficient way to scan in worksheets and print them as needed.
I just got one of those at a yard sell yesterday. It was new in the box un-opened for only $7. So I checked on line about what I had just got and now today this shows on on my recommended list. Now try to tell me we are not being spied on.
in the 60's/70's this would have been the ultimate spy tool, Sneak in scan the documents and go. The closest they got was the really cool tiny Minox 9.2mm film camera.
It's a bit too bulky for international espionage.....
You had to compare it with the flatbed scanner image too!!
a rather good bit of kit, I'd say.
Looks like a pretty decent product. It does seem like it's maybe about 10-20% too expensive for the quality it gives you, but then again, for someone who rarely has to scan documents (but knows that occasionally they do have to), it's far better than wasting the space with some giant flatbed.
To use a hand-held scanner on smaller documents, place them under a large sheet of clean, transparent acetate. Works every time, even for postage stamps.
Scanner Soft in the middle is just that the original is not hard against glass so is out of focus. Can be fixed with a firm weight on top of door to make the original press against glass firmly. Professional scanners art scopes etc. have vacuum closing doors to negate this.
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I'm a student and I have got a scanner like that. In fact it is very effective if you want to scan a document in an inappropriate place. A page from a book in the library while I'm reading for example.
this looks a great device for scanning winebottles & cans & other cilinder-formed things
I've found if you have a flatbed scanner you'll need to become comfortable opening it up to clean the underside of the glass, relubricate and reset the little springs and spacers, otherwise they just tend to get crooked, soft or cloudy/dirty scans over time. If yours is soft in the middle that's odd, kind of indicates the scanning strip is bending in the middle, check if springs are still in correct place but I dunno.
I got this model for scanning photos when visiting family. Very handy but I need 3 scans to be sure I have a good one. Also the max dpi has some weird lines, like the full resolution is only in one direction. But at 600 dpi it creates quite nice images for the size.
I have a similar one, same firmware I suppose. To side scroll in preview mode you should press the "cog" button. Also, I had very similar white lines on the image and thought it were dead pixels, turns out it was just some gunk on the sensor. Cleaned it up and it's been perfect ever since.
Must be quite clever to know how to compose the image out of the pictures it takes, since the speed you scroll it across is unavoidably variable.
It probably works the same way as an optical mouse does.
SteelSkin667
It's possible. Could also calculate it from the distance the wheels travel
Im kinda surprised they didn't stick a motor in it (connected to the roller) and make their own lives much easier.
aljowen
I don't think that'd be very stable without something pressing it down, tbh.
Skawo
I would have thought its own weight would have been enough. But as long as the motor moves at a smooth speed and the resistance between the unit and the paper is not very high then it should be fine.
I guess a motor would add cost to every unit sold, fancy software on the other hand is only a one off payment.
I was hoping you would move the scanner over a picture faster and see what the picture looked like. Now I have to try and buy one to test that out. :(
I have an older version of this thing. I swear i cannot find out how to set the date and time. BUT, the good thing is the piece of software for OCR which comes along, it goes through ideograms like a champ.
The same as here? Well the software is from Russia. It's probably the only one out there that isn't legally blind.
that Star Wars photo didn't come out quite good because the scanner is not only moved by hand (that can NEVER be exactly parallel to the surface of the paper the way a regular scanner works) but also because those 'trams' in the offset print are also recorded, and in this case, mixed with the not-quite-parallel hand-scanner, create those fuzzy patterns ... in fact, except for that 'faded white' line in the middle, which might be the result of a faulty scanner (or maybe not) this scanner is doing a really fine job!
also, the camera image of the £5 cash was done with the subject filling up more space on the frame than the one with the scanner ... and this camera has a much higher resolution too ... plus, the scan was done with moving hands with way more side-effect than a regular flatbed scanner ... so, no wonder the scanned image wasn't as good as the photo! i'm sure this scanner can do much better if used a little more cautiously!
Wanted one of these for a while.
I have the Previous model. It works with 2 AABatteries and doesnt have a Full color screen, just a basic digital clock style LCD.. I got it to scan some books into digital format. Works pretty neat though
Can one day you make a video about your new led-text thing on the reel-reel deck.
He did in a patreon exclusive video :)
Zephyroz
There are no patreon exclusive videos, just early access...or did I miss something.
What is the name of that led-text thing?
+Zephyroz Nope, he's only said on Patreon that he _plans_ to put together a video on the topic eventually.
Brendan Beck They go by different names, but the most common names for them will usually include "POV" or "Persistence of Vision" in their titles since they play on our eyes' persistence of vision to render their effect using just a single column of LEDs to create the perceived text or graphics.
I used to have a hand held scanner for my Amiga 500 but it wasn't that wide. Good little device for text for a quick copy or something like that.
I have to say, I like your videos, they're pretty informative, fun, love the muppet sketches you do at the end, those are always endlessly amusing and cheeky. Keep making videos mate! Cheers!
Three cheers to shoddy workmanship!
Neat little gadget - thanks for reviewing it.
Really like the music you use, btw.
there were some hand-scanners in the late 1980s to 1990s and possibly later that were truly 'handy' as they fit the palm of one's hands ... of course you had to rescan large pages multiple times and then use a software later to stitch the parts together ...
Thank you very much sir!
Your video presentation is always excellent and very informative.
This little portable scanner is excellent device for scanning documents or books.
One of my hobbies is scanning old photo prints and photo film for archival preservation.
With proper photo stand (like those made by Kaiser) and with proper repro/duplication macro lenses and proper light,you can get sharpness and details that no scanner can match.
Interesting device. Reminds me of those old hand scanners.
comparison to some inexpensive flatbed scanner like you have with your printer would be really helpful
Darn! Your guessed FAQs took all my questions. 💯
I have super power, I have never seen this item before but I strongly believed that it could exist. Even my imaginary picture of this device is similar to your scanner shown in video.
Reminds me of the horrible Logitech handheld scanners we had at home in the late 90s that were really frustrating to work with. This one here looks like it works pretty good though.
It is a LOT better than the Hand Scanner I used on my Amiga
(105 mm @ 400 dpi) back in the 90s.
The interesting thing I noted with the bank note, given I've not been home to the UK for a few years, is at 5:44 you can clearly see on Churchill's bow-tie (and to the right of the big "5" on the right), some EURion Constellation patterns. I was expecting the scanner to refuse to export it, but obviously, it's not looking for those.
Was watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" yesterday, and in the credits, the soundtrack was recorded at CTS too :)
I must say that this will probably be a wonderful device for scanning in my inkings. I hated the colours in the pictures, but I do love how well defined the clocktower lines are in the scan. I ink with black ink so that should work out very well.
I have one of these portable scanners for quite some time, which I originally only thought of it's portability, (since retired second-hand flatbed isn't much more expensive), so... Personally I consider this perfect for text and hardcover books, but for other stuffs, it really doesn't do too good, which is reasonable considering it's price. The two major issue is random distortion and that the white balance is way off. The second one means you have to manually adjust the white balance if you are scanning a photo, the first one just means, well, it's not good if you want to have an accurate image.
As for the clearity, you pretty much need to divide it's said dpi by 3 to get the actual dpi, making it much lower in dpi than flatbed. But, hey, it's portable, and for scanning text, it's still way better than using cellphone. So, really not gonna complain about the quality that much.
Is this a new intro or just a special into for certain things? I'm certainly not complaining, it looks good, though of course I have a bit of nostalgia for the original now. Always love your movies!
I do remember having a "hand driven scanner" back in 1998 - it did require a separate ISA expansion card and never - I can't stress it enough - NEVER produced non-distorted scan :/. At least quality improved over last 19 years, but the way it works... remains the same :).
1050 DPI - _NOT_
Somewhere in the manual it might say "interpolated" or some such. 1050 DPI would be stunning.
In my experience with high volume scanning for OCR 300 DPI is the bare minimum and from the little I've seen here that scan is within range (from the vertical text on the right corner of the illustration.) Arithmetic shows a 300 DPI scan of an 8.5X11 scan is ~8.5 megapixels.
I've stopped faxing whenever I can email a photo, it's faster and more clear.
Another thing, as my eyes age the phone camera has become essential for macro detail. I have a watch with the model number on the face that was just out of my power given the best lighting. One click later and it's as big as this screen.
GREAT BIT OF KIT, totally will never need one but want one,
the USP is that it is portable, so you can take to the library and rip some books, or scan your friends "private" photos when you are at their home and they are not looking
You should make a video of all the weird things people buy using your affiliated link :)
I just picked up an LG mouse scanner. I didn't know it existed you should look it up. Quite cool.
I wish these were around when I was in college!