Originally Posted by ScottC
I played around with the 700 version of this, was not impressed. First of all, you need an absolutely flat surface, secondly you need to make sure it goes over the image completely flat (so it won't work on books or magazines), it also tends to slip to an angle when you drag it over the image (which meant that it didn't work well on glossy paper, and then there was the quality; it sucked.
Nowadays I just use a digital camera, their resolution is much higher than any of these handheld devices.
Thanks Scott.
His words were "I need it for work. I offen go to other people's offices where they do not allow to use there xerox machines or faxes. Sometimes you have to just handwrite the information off a sample on the wall. Sometimes you need to make a copy where there is no xerox but there is a printer."
I wonder if the flat surface of the wall would make this any better. Nothing is laminated there and he could pull the documents out of the plastic protector which everyone uses there to avoid the glossy issue. The quality question is cause for concern though.
Think the technology has improved much from the 700 to the 800?
The camera option might just work as he has a nice little pocket Sony he uses. I'll pass this along.