How Do Handheld Scanners Work?. Handheld scanners are smaller, portable versions of their desktop cousins. Like a flatbed scanners, they scan documents, drawings and other flat media, turning them ...

Whether you're scanning specialized items, keeping your luggage light, or yearning to be free of cables and cords, you'll find the perfect portable scanner in this guide. (We've tested all the ...

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Vormor is a professional handheld translation device that supports scanning & voice translation for 112 languages. Launch via Kickstarter this month.

The scan-to-text option performed OCR and translated the results instantly into our preferred language. The app can translate into 40 languages (including Greek, Hebrew and Japanese).

Web: If you're a regular Google Keep user, you might have missed a (relatively) new feature in the app. If you paste an image into a note, Google lets you convert the image into editable text.

The cloud storage service can extract text from photos taken with Windows Phone devices, useful for shots of business cards, train schedules, and memos.

This “Scanner” app would also use either local / cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) to separate images from text and make scanned text available for copying and pasting across iOS ...

Whether you're scanning specialized items, keeping your luggage light, or yearning to be free of cables and cords, you'll find the perfect portable scanner in this guide. (We've tested all the ...