Re: Do Portable battery-powered) Scanners Exist?

From: didier@Glue.umd.edu (Didier A. Depireux)
Date: Wed Oct 21 16:23:50 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables


SalMcK (salmck@aol.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know whether there is such a thing as a "portable" battery-powered
: handscanner?  Maybe for laptops or palmtops...

Not directly what you are asking for, but I met someone who was using a
scanning dictionary, called the Quicktionary, made by Seiko. You can look at
http://www.seiko-usa-cpd.com//quicktionary.htm to see what I mean. 
I wonder how well those things work! (and what kind of logic they use). 

						Didier
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