LG LSM-100 5 Button Scanner Mouse with Scroll Wheel and Scan Button

This product is fantastic and I wish I had bought it sooner.Forget all the talk of a large mouse, cable problems etc if you have items, especially large ones, that you can't (or shouldn't) up-end in a scanner then this product is ideal. If you want to copy material out of the home or office this mouse, along with a laptop can be used out and about.I copy local history material, sometimes up in attics, other people's houses etc so now instead of trying to photograph them I can use this mouse scanner.I am not technically minded but with the directions, the sales video I was using the mouse within minutes and had scanned a dozen items immediately. Just roll the mouse over the page, or whatever you are copying, and it scans it!!Yes you just have to get used to moving the mouse to capture all the material you want but I am ancient and remember copying meant three sheets of carbon paper in a typewriter so perhaps I am more grateful for this mouse than if I were younger and had more expectations.

There are mixed reviews of this product which possibly revolve around the issue of 'video memory' . If ,like me , your computer has limited video memory then this product flashes up a warning that you are running it on less than recommended video memory . I went ahead and tried it anyway and was , at first , disappointed as others have been . I could not get it to easily copy an image to my satisfaction ; however then I found that if you set the 'settings' to 'low scan quality' and 'low quality jpg' , the software becomes a lot more smooth and efficient ( probably because less video memory is required ) . There are also in-between ( medium ) settings that some might find preferable . Anyway , its worth experimenting with the settings to avoid disappointment . Now that I've got it working I'm fairly pleased with the results ; a little practice also helps .

Gently sweep the mouse across the page and the image underneath appears instantly on your monitor. There is some pixie software that uses reference points to straighten out any little kinks, it works really well on detailed images. The mouse functionality gets in the way a bit (accidentally pressing buttons), and I wouldn't want to use it as a mouse in case I damage/dirty the image capture screen. So I use it as a scanner for large antique books and it is great for a page at a time. Double pages with a fold in the middle are too tricky though (but I get as close to the edge as possible turning one page upside down and use Photoshop to stitch them together). It really feels like magic it scans so well. Better than using a camera as there is no perspective distortion. As you can guess, I love it.

I have a couple of flatbed scanners but these are not much good for scanning books without breaking their spines but this scanner mouse works a treat.To be honest I think it’s the software that does most of the work but together they work fine, well with Windows 7 it does but I’ve not got around to using it with my W8.1 yet. I’ve had no problems with slow rendering as some have and this is on a run of the mill standard medium spec laptop using the standard built in on a chip graphic card.The lack of a star above is for the accessories that come with the mouse and by this I mean that tiny bit flexible mat (and the USB cable, more on that at the bottom) that I assume is for scanning receipts and tickets and the likes however this is not a lot of good for scanning books as they have a tendency to flip close because of their spines and what I would have liked was a piece of clear Perspex about the same size as that ticket thing and this would have made a very good scanner mouse into a fantastic mouse.As for using as a mouse, forget it and personally I can’t imagine anyone buy this as a mouse as that cable is a pain in the butt and if you let go of the mouse while scanning it tends to start moving across the page by itself so maybe a more flexible cable would make this a better scanner mouse too.

I'd been wanting one of these since I first saw it and at last I've bought it.My first concerns were when the installation program stated that my 18 month old laptop, running Windows 7 (64bit) didn't have OpenGL1.5 (at least).I completed the installation, and it wouldn't scan. I went to the LG Website (as suggested by LG on a German support website) and downloaded the latest version on the website. Still no success. After two prompted updates, it still doesn't work, and no longer suggets updating. After 2 hours, it still doesn't work on my laptop. Fortunately for me, it works on my wife's laptop, so I can, at least use it, but not as I intended.

I was very impressed when I first saw this being demonstrated. I needed a scanner particularly to scan A3 drawings. So I bought one. This worked fine on A4 scanning but I never got around to scanning A3 as it failed to scan anything one morninh. So I sent it back and got a refund. Still being impressed by its capability I bought another one as i still need to scan A3 and did not want to buy full A3OCR machine as there were very few to choose from. Got the new scanner and immediately started to scan A3. But to my discuss it would only scan about 75% of an A3 and then stop as if the memory lacked the capacity to do it. So I gave up and returned the scanner and got a refund and am left with having to get an A3 All-In One printer.