Both highly mobile business travelers, and gadget-lovers alike, may find a place for the LG LSM-100 Mouse Scanner. Those who have used it for an extended time find it is not a great mouse because of ergonomic issues. It is, however, said to be reliably accurate with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and probably the best hand-held scanner available.

When access to a full-sized scanner is not possible, the LSM-100's capabilities could be that proverbial life-saver in some business situations. This little gadget facilitates instantly digitizing, editing and sharing paper-based content by sending text, images, or tables directly to the cloud.

Integration with applications such as Dropbox, Evernote, NewSoft BizCard, Expensify and Lemon may be a deciding factor for some corporate users. Images containing text can be edited with OCR that recognizes 198 languages. It also speaks the internet language of social media, and can be used with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or even e-mail.

Connecting through a USB port, the laser sensor in the combination mouse-scanner operates at 1,200 DPI. Resolution of the scanner itself is adjustable up to 320 DPI with lower resolution modes available. Keep in mind the higher resolution setting works more accurately with OCR, but will demand more memory from your PC. Users have discovered that reading the Quick Start Guide seems to be mandatory to avoid issues that are easily solved with information found there.

Images can be adjusted for brightness, color saturation, and zoom-level before finalizing the scan. Then just drag the final product into various applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, WordPress or other document types. Users see an on-screen, real-time preview of content as it is being scanned.