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Originally Posted by walt526
Scanning a lot of pages torn from a spiral bound notebook will create a lot of headaches wrt jamming the paper sheet feeder. And using a flatbed would be incredibly tortuous. I would suggest using some sort of a wireless bound notebook (although you have to be very careful when tearing the perforations on these). Or, if you you do use torn pages from a spiral bound, be sure to *evenly* cut the edges.
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If they're doing it every day after school, they won't have to scan that many pages at any individual sitting. Also, back when I was in grade school they had "neatbooks" with a perforation right next to the spiral that made it easy to remove the page without getting the tanglies on one edge...I don't know if they still have those. Obviously they were more expensive, but not *that* much more expensive.
To be sure, the Edge makes this process more convenient by doing it all with one device, as long as you don't mind the tiny stylus and smaller-than-letter-size screen (and breakability and attractiveness to thieves). But for a family with multiple kids in school and not a lot of money to throw around, that convenience might come at too high a price.
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Originally Posted by sarah11918
In order to get a scanned pdf to be as useful, you'd need OCR for handwriting (not sure that exists yet) and at the very least a graphic/pdf editing tool if you want anything other than a static representation of the paper notes. Don't these software tools cost a few hundred dollars themselves?
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As you note, the Edge doesn't have handwriting recognition capabilities yet...if it did that would be a huge advantage, but for a student purchasing one now I don't think it's reasonable for them to count on the possibility that it might have that capability in the future.
As for graphic editing capabilities...everything the Edge can do in that regard can be done in MS Paint which is pre-installed on every Windows computer in the universe, [[and OpenOffice, also free, can be used to insert these into PDFs if needed]]. In fact, I suggested an Android app that could do just the same things as Paint on one of the "apps the Edge needs" threads on this forum.