Possible (?) solution to difficult scanning problem?

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Some 25 years ago a type of scanner was fairly frequent. It was a kind of
rolling scanner that one hade to move by hand along the surface that was to
be scanned. It was connected to the computer's serial port (or maybe the
parallell port).

Anyone remember this kind of scanner?

Are such scanners (or something like them) still made somewhere?

(Sometimes I have a need to copy text or pictures from cylindrical (convex)
surfaces. Flat bed scanners can of course not be used and attempts to use
digital cameras give no good results - even if I try to stitch multiple
images together)

TIA /BJ
 
Bror Johansson staggered into the Black Sun and said:
rolling scanner that [you had] to move by hand along the surface that
was to be scanned. Anyone remember this kind of scanner? Are such
scanners (or something like them) still made somewhere?
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IIRC, there was something like that in one of those "SkyMall" catalogs
on the last NorthWorst flight I took. You may wish to check out
http://www.pricewatch.com/scanners/pen.htm and see if there's anything
there that might work for you.
Sometimes I have a need to copy text or pictures from cylindrical
(convex) surfaces. Flat bed scanners can of course not be used and
attempts to use digital cameras give no good results
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This is going to be semi-difficult no matter what you do. The
distortions will add up and make it difficult to stitch the individual
strips together in a sane way. HTH anyway,
 
Bror said:
Some 25 years ago a type of scanner was fairly frequent. It was a kind of
rolling scanner that one hade to move by hand along the surface that was to
be scanned. It was connected to the computer's serial port (or maybe the
parallell port).

Anyone remember this kind of scanner?

Are such scanners (or something like them) still made somewhere?

(Sometimes I have a need to copy text or pictures from cylindrical (convex)
surfaces. Flat bed scanners can of course not be used and attempts to use
digital cameras give no good results - even if I try to stitch multiple
images together)
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Hi...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Mustek-Handheld-...4QQihZ007QQcategoryZ14929QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ken
 
Bror said:
Some 25 years ago a type of scanner was fairly frequent. It was a kind of
rolling scanner that one hade to move by hand along the surface that was to
be scanned. It was connected to the computer's serial port (or maybe the
parallell port).

Anyone remember this kind of scanner?

Are such scanners (or something like them) still made somewhere?

(Sometimes I have a need to copy text or pictures from cylindrical (convex)
surfaces. Flat bed scanners can of course not be used and attempts to use
digital cameras give no good results - even if I try to stitch multiple
images together)

TIA /BJ
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Logitech made the Scanman II is a very old device and has been obsolete
for about 10 years.
 
Logitech made the Scanman II is a very old device and has been obsolete
for about 10 years.
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I have one of Logitech's Scanman Color scanners. It still works
but my exwife through out the calibration card. You need the card to
setup the scanner every time you install it on a new system, so it's
basically worthless. Also, it connected via the printer's parallel
port, and most new computers don't have a parallel port, so even if I
had the card, I couldn't use it.
Unfortunately, Logitech sold that technology to Storm
Technologies in 1998. Storm went out of business about a year after
that.
It was a nice sheetfed scanner though. You could feed a sheet of
paper in the front of it, and it exited out the back of it. If you
had a book or some other document that you couldn't feed through it,
you lifted it off of it's base, and set it on the document to be
scanned. It had little wheels on the bottom that would pull it across
the document so that it moved at the correct speed to make the scan.

Talker
 
Rob said:
Logitech made the Scanman II is a very old device and has been obsolete
for about 10 years.
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A reviewer for the Detroit Free Press thought the driver for the product
sucked (froze his computer),

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...+held+scanner+brendan&rnum=1#72686aa002121d7b

but seemed to indicate that when installed the Docupen worked more or less
as advertized:

http://planon.com/

It appears to be a full-page (8 1/2" wnad scanner like you are looking
for. You can see it in action in one of the videos they provide, although
the glimpse is very brief.

Brendan

I'm not sure what to make of them offering remanufactured models on the
main sales page.
 
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