Keyboard Scanner Cuts Clutter

April 1996 / News & Views / Keyboard Scanner Cuts Clutter

Compaq Computer (Houston, TX) and Visioneer (Palo Alto, CA), developer of the PaperPort input system, have combined their talents and their products. The result is the pictured Compaq Scanner Keyboard that integrates an optical scanner with a keyboard and plugs into your PC's seri al port. You can use the keyboard and software to scan documents and images directly into more than 50 applications via PaperPort software.
The scanner supports optical resolution of 200 dots per inch horizontally and 400 dpi (interpolated) vertically. You can scan in photos at up to 8-bit gray-scale depth using the keyboard, but if you want color, you'll have to buy a digital camera or a color scanner: The scanner keyboard doesn't support color.
Compaq will include the scanner keyboard wi th its new Presario 7232 PC and will sell it separately for about $350.

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No, that's not a secretive government official with a handy shredder. It's a built-in scanner.

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