Vupoint Magic Wand II 2 Portable Scanner with 1-Inch Color LCD Display (Pewter)

I do a lot of genealogy work on my ancestors and needed a hand-held scanner to record data in books and family bibles, as well as scan photographs, that I could only have access to on-site. It operates on 2 AA batteries. It comes with a SanDisk 512MB micro SD card, a USB connector for downloading scanned documents to a computer, AABBYY FineReader 9.0 OCR software for your computer (I could not get the AABBYY OCR software to work but you really do not need it to view scanned JPEG and PDF files on your computer. You will need Adobe Reader installed on your computer to read documents scanned in the PDF format), and it comes with straight-forward instructions. It allows you to scan in either JPEG or PDF formats. It allows you set the scan quality at either 300 dpi, 600 dpi or 900 dpi. It is very easy to use. You can view thumbnails of what you scan through a little window on the scanner itself but it is much better to download the scans to your computer for viewing by using the included USB connector or by removing the micro SD card from the scanner, putting it in it's regular size SD card adapter, and inserting it in your computer (assuming you have an SD card slot in the computer or have an SD card reader which can be connected to your computer).

When scanning pages from a book I found that it takes a little practice to ensure that you are actually capturing all the words across an entire page. Several initial scan attempts left me missing either the first or last word on a line for a whole page. Practice before you start your first project and if you are scanning something that you may not have access to later then immediately download your scans to your computer and verify you have the entire document.

I would have given this product 5 stars if I could have gotten the included OCR software to work, but you only need this if you want to convert text you scan to another format such as Microsoft Word.

I have used this little scanner to scan documents and other papers to store them on my computer. SO far I am satisfied with this product. The only problem I found is not being able to operate the scanner connected to a computer. So you have to trust your skills at using the scanner and hope your documents will look good.

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Light, easy to use and quick. If you don't need perfect alignment of the copy, just the information on a page or paper, this works very well. But any jogging or bumps while scanning can shift text and make lines of text print skewed. Also, it does not scan and translate book covers well since it does not recognize artistic script very well. Shipping was quick and it arrived in perfect condition.

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I like it and is a good product but not too good to copy pages from text books but it scans pictures ok.

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NICE PRODUCT TO HAVE EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE ONE IF YOU LIKE SCANNING OLD PICTURES AND IMPORTANT BILLS FOR TAX RECORDS.