Visioneer IS NOT the answer! Sheetfed won't help.
I need a fairly high quality portable BOOK scanner that can be run off
a laptop (USB or parallel). Years ago a company (Atech, maybe?)
distributed a portable hand scanner with a 6-inch chasis. You'd make
two passes on a book page and then stitch the image, but it was b&w. I
need color. Is there something on the market now that will do the job?

"Pixsnap" <pixsnap@juno.com> wrote in message
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It is called a Digital Camera. You take a picture of the book page. A 3
megapixel camera will do a pretty good close up of a book page. Of course,
to get the best results, you would need the camera mounted on a tripod.

If it is just text you want, here is a one line scanner.
http://www.dansdata.com/qlpen.htm

There is an old one on Ebay. At this moment.(4 days 9 hours left)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 223

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