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From the first look at the picture I thought it was another version of Neat Receipts and the respective Neat Scanner, which I happened to own (thanks to Woot Gods for dropping one into my BоC a few months back)…
But looks like it’s something very different…
Anyone knows how this one compares to Neat Scanner? Both hardware and included software (s/w that comes with Neat is pretty good as far as I’m concerned)…
While it SAYS portable, I wouldn’t want to have to lug this around all day if I could help it. Perfect though if you need to scan documents from your car or mobile place of business.
For a second I thought this was a portable EYEBALL iris scanner… for eye-scanning security applications. It immediately tripped my “Wow! Cool!” reflex… immediately followed by the “But Why Would Anyone Need That To Be Portable?” reflex. Followed shortly by the “Doh! I totally misunderstood” reflex.
I have this exact scanner at my desk at work. I’ve had it for about 2 years and it’s still working fine.
Cons
One word: SLOOOOOOOOOW
Luckily I only have to scan in maybe 5-10 documents a week in order to do my job. So if you do a lot of scanning, this is NOT the scanner for you. I would also say that for my purposes it’s fine, but it doesn’t offer really high quality images.
Pro
It doesn’t take up a whole lot of real estate on my desk.
Had one of these at work that we ordered for a user. It was a POS and we sent it back! The software interface was crap and the scanner made the scanned photo look like newsprint. IRIS support was non-existent. Seemed like they’re more interested in selling their software and packaged a 3rd party scanner hardware along with their product. Would not recommend.