![]() Bonus points for never having to use a computer to do any of the scanning. upstairs at my desk, or at the kitchen counter, etc.), and it would upload a scan to Dropbox (or some other location). But ever since the NeatReceipt scanners were introduced, I've pined for a device that would be let me stick any kind of flat medium in it, wherever I wanted (e.g. I've always had a scanner of some sort-most recently an all-in-one inkjet or laser printer/copier/scanner-and the convenience has been nice. Scanners have advanced quite a bit since then-instead of waiting 5-10 minutes for one color scan (the scanner had to make one pass with each color filter, then the computer would assemble the scans into a single RGB image), you can scan hundreds of documents per minute with the best 'document workstation' devices. It took over a minute per scan-and much longer at 'photo' resolutions. My very-old 3-pass color scanner connected to a PowerBook 180c. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've always been fascinated by digital scanners my Dad worked in an industry that allowed him access to some of the newest tech in terms of computing, so I was able to use a full-color (16-bit!) digital scanner hooked up to an early Mac IIci running Photoshop when most people still used computers with 8-bit displays.
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