Scan sections of your books to create digital files.

(We’ve used this and other Pen Scanners. This is the only one we were happy with.)

This one does not require internet connection to work (many will not work if not connected to the internet, sending your data who-knows-where). There was no setup – It works out of the box.

It is basically easy to use. Even on Linux, it was plug and play – we plugged it in using USB and started scanning, and the text appeared on whatever document we had open.

You can create as many files as you want to separate your scanned material. You can scan when not plugged into computer also, create files, and later transfer them to your computer over USB (simple text files).

It has audio, and can read your scanned material aloud. It has dictionaries.

Estimated 8-hour battery. Charges with USB, like your phone.

Be careful when buying. There are several C-pens. Only one is the Scanner (the one we’re talking about here), although it is called the ReaderPen. There are other models by this company that are not scanners (as far as I am aware), and are instead meant just to read aloud what you scan (for language-learners etc). Or rather, they are ‘scanners’ but they scan only to say the words, not to scan the words to a text file. Because the name of several different ones have ‘reader’ it can be confusing, so look at the product description on whichever Amazon page carefully before purchasing. There is also a Secure Scanner version, which also does not scan to text. It is just for reading scanned words.

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