Nifty Planon Docupen reviewed by TechGage

[Babrbarossa]

This is a NEAT gadget! You could get your self in and out of all kinds of trouble with this thing if you were imaginative enough. It does color and is literally not much bigger than a pen. (ok if I use your pic, Rob?)




"While the fact this scans colour is very nice, most of the practical uses of this pen do not necessarily require colour, such as receipts, documents, books, business cards, blueprints, etc. That being said, it was definitely a bonus to be able to scan the photograph and retain the colour information. It is definitely an improvement over previous portal scanning products both by DocuPen and its competitors, so if you're going to get a scanner pen, this is the best one you're going to find, and the only one I found with expandable memory.
It has many more resolution and colour depth options than anything else comparable, it is very, very easy to use and the documents are simple to manipulate. It is, as far as I know, the only document scanner that is not held like a pen. Whereas most alternatives are held pen-like and only scan a few lines at a time, this DocuPen is unique in its ability to scan an entire page in seconds. It's ten times the scanner at less than twice the price of the closest competition."

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[Shadowed]

Thats a cool little device. I don't know about the 8mb memory though. Last time I was messing around with a scanner, I ended up with a 100mb file... oops..