Pandigital PANSCN09PU Handheld Wand Scanner w/Feeder Doc Station & 2GB microSD Card (White)

• Scan up to 8.5 x 14-inch photos and documents
• Scans images with 300 or 600 dpi resolution, Up to 8.5 x 11-inches
• Optical character recognition for document scanning
• JPEG or PDF output, Color or black & white output
• 2 GB microSD memory card included

This hand-held scanning wand is quite nice to have if you want to scan a larger-than-normal book or tabloid-sized sheet music that won't fit on a standard-sized desktop scanner platen. The images are clear and readable and the included software will let you adjust and crop images to the desired size. However, it's shareware; so there's a time limit on how long you get to use all of the advertised features. Be careful though, any deviation from the desired scan path during scanning will result in minor distortion of the image.

Unfortunately, it's also a bit of a battery-hog. (Mine tends to go through a pair of batteries about every 60-80 pages.) It can be used without batteries by using it with the included feeder (which includes a wall-plug), but then you're stuck having to scan individual pages. (Also, I found that the feeder doesn't always send the pages through straight. YMMV.)

Summary: It's useful and I like it, but it takes a bit of practice to use and you'll go through a *LOT* of batteries while using it.