LG has released a new mouse called LSM-100, and it doubles as a fully functioning scanner capable of recognizing characters.
The laser mouse has two buttons and a wheel — but what makes it special is the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse. Hold it and the mouse can scan page sizes up to A3 and save them as several file types: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PDF and XLS.
Since the LSM-100 is equipped with LG’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, it can also convert scanned text into an editable Microsoft Word document.
LG’s new scanner-mouse was first shown at CES, but it will be properly introduced at this year’s IFA trade show in Berlin, Sept. 2 to 7. The price and availability are unknown at this point.
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Posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:59:02 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/1TSOu-uZBMY/
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The laser mouse has two buttons and a wheel — but what makes it special is the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse. Hold it and the mouse can scan page sizes up to A3 and save them as several file types: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PDF and XLS.
Since the LSM-100 is equipped with LG’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, it can also convert scanned text into an editable Microsoft Word document.
LG’s new scanner-mouse was first shown at CES, but it will be properly introduced at this year’s IFA trade show in Berlin, Sept. 2 to 7. The price and availability are unknown at this point.
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