Handheld Scanners

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I am looking for a handheld scanner to use with a laptop PC to scan pages
out of books. Years ago there were handheld scanners sold which could
simply be dragged across the paper. The major problem with them was they
had proprietary unique interfaces. I can't find any such thing on the
market nowadays. The closest things I found were the DocuPen and the
CanoScan LiDE50. The DocuPen only scans at a sampling rate of 200dpi x
200dpi. The CanoScan is too bulky. I don't get a good enough image
photographing with an inexpensive digital camera. Are there any
alternatives?

thank you,

Charles P. Lamb