LG launches world’s first ‘Drag and Share’ mouse scanner

[Chi Cygni]

yes he did. BUT - Before I bought it for him we discussed the computer requirements and he knew upfront his current computer will not handle it as the mouse needs a lot of memory. But as he wants to upgrade anyway he will be able to use its full potential with the new computer (soon, in coming weeks I guess). So, we tried but the current slow computer didn't yet allow to see all capabilities.

[Sil_liS]

I couldn't get one before I went on vacation, but I got it today.

The installation was annoying and I don't even know what the problem was. The driver installed fast enough, and the mouse was working as a mouse practically immediately. I was getting the initial installation screen with bright pink buttons. After I pressed the install button it tested the performance of my system, I pressed the next install button and ... nothing. The mouse was working fine as a mouse, but the scan button did nothing. I tried it about 5 more times, but it didn't do anything. Google didn't really get my hopes up as it seems that it sometimes crashes during installation and people weren't really happy with the scanner function or the size of the mouse. I rebooted the system and ran the installation again. It still didn't do anything but at least the optical drive was making a noise like it was working on something. I left it alone and 20 minutes later I got the end user license agreement screen. After that it went smoothly.

Scanning
You don't have to worry about scanning in perfectly parallel lines or even holding the mouse at a certain angle during the scan, the only thing that you shouldn't do is lift the scanner because that will stop the scan. The image is easy to rotate and crop in the software.

Resolution
It has 3 settings: low, medium and high. The higher setting gives a clearer image, but all work.

Size

If your computer system is closer to the minimum system requirements, the scanner can scan an A4 size document. If it is closer to the recommended system requirements, the scanner can scan an A3 size document. If you lower the resolution, this will increase the scanned area in the same system.

This was in the manual and it's true, I was able to scan an A3 page. The only problem is the fact that it takes too long to do it, especially because you can't move the mouse very fast and you need to have it on a flat surface and you are trying to keep the page steady.

Scanning single pieces of paper smaller than A5 is the is the easiest thing to do because you can use the mouse pad that comes with the mouse. It has a transparent surface under which you can slide the piece of paper and then you don't have to worry about keeping it in place.

Books aren't fun to scan. They are not impossible to scan, but it isn't easy. If you have just a piece of paper, when you move the sensors over the edge of the paper you are just scanning the surface that it's resting on. With a book there is a distance between the page you are scanning and the surface that the book is resting on, so if you go over, the scanning process stops. Then you have the binding edge that you have to flatten out anyway, and if the text or image that you are trying to scan is too close to the border you are going to have to be very careful because you'll want do move the scanner partially over the other page to get everything.

OCR

• To use the OCR function, scan a document or photo in high-resolution.
Go to Settings > General to check the resolution.
The OCR function supports Over the sizes of 10 font in high resolution.
• If it fails to recognize the text, check whether the language you selected is valid.
Go to Settings > Text Recognition and check the language set in the right pane.
The OCR function restarts whenever the language is changed or the text recognition range is modified in edit mode.
When using the OCR, make sure that the resolution is set to high in Settings -> General

This^ was scanned and pasted directly with the "Paste Text" option. It recognizes the text, text alignment, tables, bullet points, bold and italic, different font sizes, subscript, things like ±, but it doesn't work with equations, Greek letters for scientific notations, and according to the manual it also has a problem strikethrough text.

System Requirement
Minimum System
CPU : Intel* Core™ Duo 1.2 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64X2,1.7 GHz RAM : 1GB of free RAM
Video Card : 128 MB NVIDIA* GeForce* 8400 GS or 128 MB ATI Radeon™ XI300 or 384 MB (shared) Intel* GMA X3000 or better Free disk space: 1 GB

Recommended System
CPU : Intel* Core™ 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ II processor RAM: 4GB
Video card : 512 MB AMD Radeon™ HD4850 or 512 MB ATI FirePro™ V5700 or better Free disk space: 4GB

Any questions?

[pendragginp]

Thank you for posting this. . I've been wondering how this would work for scanning books. Not so great, it sounds like.

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by pendragginp

Thank you for posting this. . I've been wondering how this would work for scanning books. Not so great, it sounds like.

If you want a paragraph it works great. It was much easier to scan the system requirements from the manual and paste them than it would have been to type them. And it is possible that it would get easier in time.

[blue_skies]

Sil_liS - Thanks so much for the detailed review. That was very helpful!