I travel regularly out often with my clients, and I often find myself with original documents I can not take with me. At first I was making photocopies on site I was scanning once returned to the office to incorporate in my reports and I spent the OCR to retrieve the text or numbers. It was rather laborious, with the risk of losing photocopies. Later I tried to photograph the documents with my laptop. Cétait already better, but sometimes the image was blurred and therefore totally unusable.
This portable scanner and ultracompact changed my life! I get my scans immediately. I see immediately if they are of good quality and I can start a text recognition. Otherwise I rescan immediately. Best of all, I can even use it if I did not have my laptop with me, because it does not need to be connected to a computer to work ... all will be stored on the microSD card.
In terms of technical features, Taotronics scanner can scan at resolutions of 300, 600 and 900 dpi, both in JPG in PDF, in color or black and white. What do many things!
While it is less powerful than flatbed scanners or MFPs those dedicated, but this little device is proving very pleasant demploi for scanning office documents on the move. An indispensable companion for people on the go and very useful for your laptop!
Height of luxury, the scanner comes with a pocket umbrella cover so that can lug around everywhere without making him eat too much dust.
The OCR text recognition software included is a classic ABBYY FineReader. It recovers unopposed text and numbers in tables to restore formatted (MS Word ...) or text-only. Too bad ABBYY is provided in Windows version ... yet there for Macintosh. Fortunately I already had an OCR software on my Macbook Air!
Positives
- The ability to use microSD cards to 32GB, which combined with the autonomy of the scanner enables the roaming with peace of mind.
- A well-finished product.
Those a little less
- The mini CD that can not be used if you do not have a drawer with CD player (not Mac compatible)
- The absence of OCR software on Mac, too bad.
