Planon has a new pen-shaped scanner called the DocuPen R700 that can capture whole 8.5-inch-wide pages at a time – that’s the good part. The not so good part is that it only has 2MB of on-board memory, scans in monochrome, and has a maximum resolution of 200 dpi. If it weren’t obvious, though, the $200 scanner isn’t designed to replace flat bed models or to produce a high quality output, but instead as a quick, portable way to get dead tree documents onto a machine to be translated via OCR.
The R700 also uses lithium-ion batteries that recharge over USB (previous models used coin batteries).
Pen-size scanner captures full pages [ZDNet]
Product Page [Planon]
