Radio-frequency scanners, like the Uniden Bearcat Scanner, check for active radio communications in your immediate area. They're commonly purchased by hobbyists, but they also have many business ...

[Daniel] at diybookscanner.org posted a roundup of the best automatic book scanner builds to date. A lot of the comments on our last coverage of book scanners were summed up by [Spork] with, “No ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Scanning documents is no longer a tough task. Thanks to dedicated scanning machines that have been around for a while now, there are multiple varieties available in the market today. However, not ...

Most people think of scanners as that quaint mechanism that looks like an old photocopier on the printer, or an independent flatbed ideal for capturing receipts. But in commercial terms, there are two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Scanners normally come in three flavors: flatbed, film and ...

I've been trying to digitize some of my old books and comics, and I purchased a Plustek Opticbook 4800 scanner for the job (because some of these are comics, overhead scanners, or ones without platens ...

Bookshelves today are simply not as appealing as they used to be, and there’s no shortage of people looking to digitize their own book collections. Fortunately, we now have easy and relatively ...

Accessing a plethora of information through portable devices is something much more practically beneficial than carrying books and documents around! Where books and documents give you excess weight ...

Although I tend to use my iPhone 4S and Readdle's Scanner Pro (US$6.99) or JotNot Scanner Pro ($1.99) apps to do most of my scanning, there are still documents that need a regular scanner of some sort ...

With this, it is possible to save all the books occupying bookshelves into digital data and save them. The feature is that you can scan any book without damaging it. It is possible to use thin paper ...

Carrying around books seems to be getting phased out. Even for students, there are plenty of different options out there, whether it be tablets or laptops, to provide an option for minimizing the ...