Yesterday I blogged a bit about CES --- and it's sheer enormity. Fortunately (for me AND for you!) I have friends who are also "on the lookout" for technologies applicable to the practice of public accounting. Today's article comes from RICHARD OPPENHEIM, CPA.CITP. Many thanks for your piece, Rich --- I appreciate your wisdom and experience.
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When you need a copy and there is no copier in your accessory bag, there is Docupen. This device is a pocket portable scanner the size of a fat pen. Slide open the pen and you can scan up or down an entire text page or over a small or full sized image. The Docupen has internal memory that can hold up to several hundred documents which can be any combination of separate text pages, photographs, business cards, newspaper articles and more. At any time you can connect the Docupen to a computer via USB cables. While connected the batteries are recharged.
The image shows the RC800 which is a full color scanner and retails for $300. There are other models for $100 less, the 700 models, that are only black & white. The scanner is bundled with OCR software that can be installed on your computer to convert the scanned text documents to editable text for inclusion in any word processing document.
Richard Oppenheim, CPA, CITP
