LG Electronics LSM-100 Scanner Mouse

Its not user friendly, kind of sorry I bought it. It is hard to master the mouse to get the full page and you need to keep replacing your regular mouse with this because you wouldnt want to use this all the time since he bottom is the scanner glass.

I bought this thing to take to Taiwan with me, to help me in my traditional Chinese lessons. To my surprise and disappointment, LG does not recognize this language in its OCR data base! (Oh, but it has over 180 other languages in its database!) What a waste of money! Other than that, its just fine.

I agree with others who have commented that the position of the scan button is not ideal however the scanned image is great - clear and readable.at least for my purposes. The only thing I really do not like is that I constantly am getting software updates and then a window advertising Twitter and three other apps - I think I finally got rid of it by changing my updates to manual rather than automatic.

Save your money people. The cord alone will bring enough frustration for you to want to throw it against the wall. You cannot lift the scanner like you would a regular mouse. As soon as you lift the mouse your scan is ruined and have to start again. It is possible to scan using this device if you are willing to spend a lot of time and go over your document again and again. I bought this gadget to scan documents quickly and efficiently. Boy, was I wrong. The material at the bottom of the mouse sticks to paper and in my case it was also uneven. Scanning books?-------- forget it.

The bad: The Scan button is too easy to hit and when I was trying to scan a page in a book, when I got close to the inside edge, I had to move my fingers to get the scanner close to the edge and twice, the mouse hit the book and scan key and quit the scan mode. The scan button should be on the top of mouse, out of the way. When I installed the CD, it lets you to pick automatic updates or not; I made the mistake and allowed them to notify me of updates, of which they do almost every half hour or so and it is a nuisance to say the least. I had one picture on heavy card stock, that was very difficult to copy as the eyes would move off of the page. This mouse takes up a lot of energy and memory, so keep your unit plugged in and if you have a small amount of usable memory, only take a few scans or your system will shut down as mine did because I spent almost an hour trying this gadget out. I dont use this for a mouse, so the size and shape are not an issue with me. The manual is crazy as they give you one sentance in English, and a bunch of other languages, for each and every step, along with Q & A. at a time and the print is very SMALL. The good that I have found so far: This scans live so you can see the results as you are scanning, unlike the wand that goes onto a SD Card, and you can somewhat edit your picture before you save or send it. For myself, the print looks good, but it might not work on handwriting or lightly printed items. +JMJ+

I didnt immediately open or install the LG Electronics mouse, but when I did take the time it was relatively easy to install. I really have not had a chance to thoroughly explore the capabilities of the device, however, with what I have tried I am completely satisfied and look forward to learning to do more with my scanner mouse.

Below are my original comments. I have tried to use it repeatedly to scan and copy excerpts from paper documents. Although I can adapt to the size and buttons of this mega-mouse, it is the cord that ruins it for me. It makes it too unwieldy and any efficiency I would otherwise gain using it is lost. It is better for me to scan all the documents to PDFs and then copy images or markup with PDF Annotator. The software is truly amazing; it stitches together various strokes across a document into a decent rendition. Just a shame about the cord. Back to the drawing board for LG on this one. First, if you are having problems installing from Win 7 64 bit with enclosed disc try closing Anti-virus and right click on .exe file and select run as Administrator. I can never figure out why certain software doesnt just install. I have also done two software updates since getting it installed (12 hours ago) so you might check the support site to see if these updates are listed and can be downloaded directly. Once I got the software working, it is awesome. I review various documents and this will certain streamline of my procedure. Hopefully, LG will continue to develop and support it. A wireless version would be money.

When I first purchased and used this mouse I thought it was great. I gave it to a friend as a gift. I purchased the newer versions but now it isnt working. It wont convert smaller print to text no matter what I do even though my previous version did, It dosent give me a convert to text option, only to image. The cord is heavy and cumbersome and it is quite a time consuming job to use this mouse scanning different kinds of text layout. I am looking for a cordless and something more reliable.

As described fully in the product description it is really good to have for people who travel lot and work off office most of the time. While in office you would prefer to use a scanner which is quite cheaper than this. As it works in both mode, scan and can be use as a mice. But I would recommend only use it while scanning, if you want to use as a mice, buy another cheap one and keep both in you laptop bag. I bought it for my friend in India and he loved it, because its not like US that everyone have personal scanner at home. It is off much much use for him while making presentation, the software it has can easily convert the scanned page text which can be edited in MS Word. I would say it is a quality product.

It scanned no better than my old 300 dpi scanner, even when set at 1200dpi and with me scanning back and forth many times. It seems that the software included is improved over older software, but there is still room for improvement. It is a great idea, and will probably become a great product . . . eventually.