Scanner Discussion of the basics
Lets first take a look at how a portable scanner can make your life easier when youre on the road. If you frequently travel to workshops, seminars and trade shows, you know how many business cards and promotional flyers you can collect. How about taking along a portable scanner that has the ability to capture the images and data from these materials without cluttering your life with all that paper. Just run a business card or flyer through your portable scanner, and thats all there is to it. Portable scanners use optical character recognition technology, or OCR, to collect images and data and transmit it to your laptop or company network via USB cable; theres no need for any external power source.