You're reading a summer reading book and you need to copy quotes into the computer to create a table. You're bored, and sick of constantly highlighting, and then copying the text into the computer. Your scanner doesn't put the text into a usable form. You could use a Word Scanner. This handy little pen shaped scanner, would be used like a highlighter over the text that needed to be copied. It would save the text, and when hooked up to a computer would directly copy the words into the computer. Quick, simple, affordable, and easy. No more tedious quote typing for you!-- sumidog123, Aug 16 2002 Like this? http://www.maplin.c...eImages/25682i0.jpgI have one of these. Works precisely as described. £30. ($45 US, $90 AUS) [angel, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004] Manufacturer's site for the above item http://www.pocketreader.com/ [angel, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004] OCR scanner, maybe? Hmm..-- Mr Burns, Aug 16 2002 These pen-like OCR scanners exist. My father-in-law, who has become a Chelsea Pensioner, bought one.-- Aristotle, Aug 16 2002 PocketReader is no longer available - at Manufacturer's site, anyway. I could *really* use something like this.-- thumbwax, Aug 16 2002 Maplin still list it (my first link); failing that, there's the C-Pen (Ithink), which is a lot more expensive.-- angel, Aug 19 2002 random, halfbakery