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Pen scanners are the most recent newcomers in the scanning market. Most commonly pen scanners were used as bar code readers, in one swift motion one is able to scan the bar code and the photodiode in the tip of the pen decodes the bar code and gives you the name and the price of the article in question. With advancements in technology pen scanners are not only limited to decoding bar code anymore. The most recent models of pen scanners that are available can scan up to 100 pages of text and transfer it to your computer. Pen scanners can recognize different fonts of texts you are scanning, they can scan the text directly into the application on your computer, some pen scanners even double as a PDA. Pen scanners might be a bit tricky to use at first, as it will take a while to get the angle to scan the text just right, however once you get used to using a pen scanner you might wonder how you ever went without it. |
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