The Scanmarker Air Scanner lets you scan notes and save them to your phone or computer— and now, it’s $30 off

New gadgets are the best. We especially love ‘em when they find cool, inventive ways of bridging the divide between the old school physical world and the new frontier digital landscape. And is there anything more quintessentially old school than scribbling notes longhand with a pad of paper and a pencil?

The Scanmarker Air Wireless OCR Pen Scanner brings note-taking into the 21st century with a truly innovative concept that’ll instantly change how you compile and store information. And with this limited time offer from TNW Deals, you can knock $30 off the price of this digital highlighter, bring it down to just $89.

If you’re putting together a report or trying to extract critical facts from loads of various books, documents or other sources, the Scanmarker Air is your new best friend. It only takes a second (literally!) for this handheld scanner to roll over a line of text, turn that data into a raw image, then use text recognition OCR technology to recreate that text and add it to a Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, email, Facebook post, whatever.

But this is more than just a smart highlighter. In addition to making any text editable, the device can also read back your text, translate it into over 40 different languages, or send all your saved information to the cloud (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, or more), an accompanying phone app or even just send it as an email.

It’s ridiculously simple to use, can run for nearly a day before recharging and basically put a full size scanner into a portable unit you can take anywhere.

Regularly $119, try out the Scanmarker Air at a $30 savings while this offer lasts.