Oh my gulay. I’d love to have one of these during a heritage research tour — when you run across a goldmine of archival material, mostly handwritten and crumbling away, that’s either too delicate to transport, let alone lay face down on a scanner’s bed. And who’d have a scanner in their backpack when exploring little sleepy towns to document their heritage anyway?

In my line of work, I encounter materials (usually paper, sometimes even fabric) that are in such terrible shape that you wouldn’t dream of subjecting them to too much handling. Something like this, with its Document Capture mode, would be perfect to use. You don’t handle the material, and you have a very hi-resolution image that you get far quicker than with a scanner (I’m assuming!). Paper labels at the backs of old, fragile paintings, handwritten church records, building plans, old photographs and journals… the possibilities! Agh!

This should have been released before I graduated in college. *pout* This would have pretty handy for all those thesis references. Snap, save, download! No more piles of paper under, over and around the computer table. My mom would have been thrilled. Teehee. I echo ms miranoriel’s sentiment… “the possibilities!” :p

i wanna have this! i want to shove it into our classroom’s whiteboard and prove that we can copy notes from that professor who keeps erasing the notes he wrote in a blink of an eye! thanks!