摘要 |
<p>A manual sweeping apparatus having a housing (1), an image sensor (15), a printer (21, 64), and a memory (60). As the housing (1) is manually swept across an original, while keeping the housing (1) in contact with the original, information read by the image sensor (15) is written into the memory (60). Thereafter, as the housing (1) is manually moved across a piece of recording paper, while keeping the housing (1) in contact with the paper, the information is read out from the memory (60) and subsequently printed on the paper. During the data-reading operation, the apparatus detects and indicates whether or not any unwritten memory area exists in the memory (60). During the data-printing operation, the apparatus detects said indicates whether or not any items of data to be printed are stored in the memory (60).</p> |