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HP CAPSHARE 910
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Capshare-910
By A Customer
I designed and developed the testing and manufacturing software for this scanner on a contract with HP. The CapShare-910 code named "Zorro" is quite an amazing little device. You capture pages using a free-form, Z shaped motion across the page, (Hence the code name "Zorro").
Since it uses optical microscopes (called Pathfinders) to literally navigate on the page's surface, you don't have to worry about wheels skipping and ruining your scan image. It has the capability to capture in regular black and white like a copier, or gray scale which works well for magazine articles containing images. It also has a "Flip Chart" mode which allows you to capture an entire flip chart sized document or full sized newspaper page, store it, share it and print it out on a standard 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper.
You can preview the images in the LCD display and delete the ones you don't want as well as skew and crop images and group multiple images together as a multipage Tiff or PDF file. It has an infrared transmitter which allows you to "Squirt" the images directly into IR capable HP laserjet printers, laptop computers and hand-held devices. You can also transmit the images into your desired device via the supplied serial cable.
The only drawback to the CapShare-910 is it's high price tag. Maybe the price will come down if it catches on. It's a great little B&W/Grayscale scanner for use on the road, at the library or anywhere else you need to capture documents without tearing the page out of the book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
An academic's dream come true
By A Customer
I have to admit, I was a bit sceptical when I first heard about the Capshare. Why would I want to pay all that money for a glorified half-page-width B&W hand scanner? After all, I bought one of those a decade ago (Logitech Scanman, for the curious geeks out there) for far less than the street price of the Capshare.
But my scepticism faded fast as I started to play with a friend's new Capshare. What an amazingly useful electronic tool! The Capshare really works, and really works smoothly. Pages are sewn together seamlessly, and displayed on the LCD panel on the back; no fuss, no guesswork. And ah, the applications! When I'm at the library, no longer any need to remember a copy card or a pocket full of change and find a copy machine (for fair-use copying of course!) Better still, when I get back to the office, I can file the copies on disk, and thus accessible from anywhere, rather than in my filing cabinet. When I get a travel receipt, I no longer carry it for a week before losing it; I scan it, and turn in the scan for reembursement. When I receive reviews or other documents that I need to share with collaborators abroad, simply scan, save to .pdf format, and email. And doubtless there will be plenty of additional applications that will come to light as I get used to having my Capshare around.
The downside? The software. While it is not bad, I do wish that the included text recognition software (conversion from graphics format to actual text) was better, but this will doubtless improve in time. And I really wish that the software ran on Linux, but knowing the Linux community, it's only a matter of time until something even better will.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Anyone find a device, equivalent to the amazing, OCRing HP Capshare?
By W. Johnson
I purchased one of these HP Capshare scanners as a closeout at $300, significantly less than the then current asking price of $900. I was very skeptical.But YES... a very useful device. Contrary to what some reviewers claimed, I found this HP Capshare worth its high asking price, and very easy to use. It worked right out of the box, with my separately purchased Ricoh Magio sub-miniature laptop, which was a netbook, sold before the term "netbook" was coined. With the Capshare, I could scan text from bound books. My netbook would then volunteer to collect the scanned pages when the Capshare's IR port was within range of the netbook's IR port. Using Pagis Pro software (bundled with the Capshare), my netbook could then OCR, or convert the Capshare's bitmapped images to ASCII text, with 98% accuracy. The text could then be passed on to my Palm Pilot through the Palm Pilot's IR port. The three pieces of hardware were quite a technological team! (Along with Pagis Pro software.)Of course, many complained that the Ricoh Magio was too difficult to use, because of its tiny keyboard. And the HP Capshare could not do a decent job at copying photos or even line drawings. It could only accurately copy black and white text. But the value of these devices was proven by the fact that I wore them out, unlike some other computer gear that was purchased and little used.Has anyone found equivalent technology?Or do I need to cobble up some improvised solution with a digital camera and additional software? If so... what software?
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