A photographer walks by and asks what I'm playing with. After eight more error messages, I finally get the second line scanned in. Apparently OCR still has a way to go. I work my way through the remainder of the news release, my faith in technology alternately buoyed and dashed. Sometimes, I am able to get an entire paragraph in without incident, almost typo free.
Some lines come through a little garbled.
The Pocket Reader has the size and weight to make it a perfect projectile, and I'm tempted to heave it across the room when it refuses to cooperate. The scanner is a stand-alone device that can store the equivalent of 20 pages of text. It also has a translation function that allows you to scan one language and have the equivalent word appear in another language. The scanner connects to a PC or laptop via a wire and a serial port. Text can be dumped into any Windows application.