The travel scanner is making new head ways in today’s world, thanks to more compact technology and a fast paced lifestyle. To cater to all your documents needs, this innovative new product is on the market, available at different prices and with varying features.
The Ambir TravelScan Pro600 is a lightweight, portable scanner – perfect for a trip to the library. It is a sheet feed scanner with a resolution of 600 dpi. For a scanner so small, it can scan pages as large as legal size. As one of the best travel scanners on the market today though, it is not compatible with Macs.
In contrast, the NeatReceipts is another travel document scanner, priced at about $200 though with many more features. It is perfect for traveling and scanning documents like business cards, ID cards, passports, copies of receipts etc. It was specially designed for vendors and a business market, and so is able to extract key information from the documents themselves, such as name, address, company title, etc. By saving your documents in as many formats as you want, you can create a database on your computer very easily.
Another travel scanner is the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 Color Mobile Scanner. It is currently the world’s smallest travel scanner with ADF duplex technology, which means that it can scan your documents with more ease and speed than any other travel scanner on the planet. Weight about five pounds, the S300 scanner can be powered by a USB and instantly creates a searchable database in your computer through PDF and JPEG files. You can easily drag and drop, edit and delete scans and view thumbnails. This is one of the best travel scanners on the market, and is even giving flatbed scanners a run for their money!
Another of the many travel scanners available today is the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand Portable Scanner. Small and portable, it is compatible with Macs and PCs. It scans in standard and high resolution, and can scan colored and monochromatic images very quickly. At high resolution the scanning speed is usually twenty eight seconds while with low resolution it is as quick as eight seconds. As a travel scanner, its uniqueness lies in that in can scan even A4 sheets: most small scanners do not support anything larger than an A3 sheet. It thus becomes an essential for scanning newspapers and magazines, for example, from library archives. USB powered, it is available for $90.
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