I guess I was still laughing from the way he fumbled putting on the damn stocking, bumbing his head getting out of the elevator, crouching and turning in places where it did no good, etc. High comedy.
Yeah, the turning maneuvers were funny. He too must have watched the TV series from the 1970s. :-)
I've often wanted a pen scanner for scanning quick details from books in libraries and other places. I've suspected they don't work well enough to be practical, though. Pogue kind of confirms that here.
A small pocket camera works much better (you can OCR it later if you need to). But the problem here is that you look like a secret agent taking spy photographs. So you need privacy, lest they think you are a terrist [sic] or something. There's no perfect solution yet, it seems.
My cell phone has a function for "scanning" business cards. You put it in close up mode, snap the card, and it picks out the fields, it even can tell a phone number from an e-mail address.
Trouble is, the flash on mine isn't working, and it gets about 20% of the text right, otherwise a wonderful toy.
Haha ... looks like he is having fun making these.
ReplyDeleteLoved J. K. Rowling's penmanship on the envelope.
You're right, I didn't even notice!
ReplyDeleteI guess I was still laughing from the way he fumbled putting on the damn stocking, bumbing his head getting out of the elevator, crouching and turning in places where it did no good, etc. High comedy.
Yeah, the turning maneuvers were funny. He too must have watched the TV series from the 1970s. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've often wanted a pen scanner for scanning quick details from books in libraries and other places. I've suspected they don't work well enough to be practical, though. Pogue kind of confirms that here.
A small pocket camera works much better (you can OCR it later if you need to). But the problem here is that you look like a secret agent taking spy photographs. So you need privacy, lest they think you are a terrist [sic] or something. There's no perfect solution yet, it seems.
There were decent hand scanners ten years ago. You'd think they'd have made progress.
ReplyDeleteMy cell phone has a function for "scanning" business cards. You put it in close up mode, snap the card, and it picks out the fields, it even can tell a phone number from an e-mail address.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, the flash on mine isn't working, and it gets about 20% of the text right, otherwise a wonderful toy.