Telephone number scanner?

Question

hi, I wonder if anybody can help me, I want to know if there is such a machine that can read telephone numbers. What I needed to do is, read telephone numbers from a second-hand ad magazine. I want to go to the ad magazine and find anything as for sale locally without having to go through every ad and read every telephone number just will find out if they are local. I want a sort of scanner that I can just run all the page and it will recognise a local telephone number, obviously preprogrammed. Please help thank you M.O.Rowlands.

Answer 1

Easy, meet up with an illegal immigrant and pay them a few pennies an hour to do the job. Remember: knowledge = power.

Answer 2

I don't think such a baby exists.