Tips for Buying Portable Scanners

During your vacation time, your child has brought you a picture he has drawn. How beautiful would be to visit those wonderful memories when he will grow up and we will become old. But there are high chances that this tiny paper will not survive for the next few decades. When you are on an official trip and have some confidential documents that you need to send to the clients. These are two different cases and both have a common task. Got the answer? A portable scanner will help in solving both these problems.

When you are looking to buy portable scanners online, some rules you should follow.

Price – There are unlimited portable scanners at different price ranges available online, but firstly set a budget for your purchase and then look for those items within your price range.

Decide what you will scan – If you need digital copies for text documents then search the models with a low resolution 300 dpi that will be perfect. If your priority is color photos, then buy a 600 or 1200 dpi color scanner. Keep in mind that the photo scanners are always expensive.

Frequency of scanning – Are you scared of documents looking like Eiffel Tower? Just imagine how tiring and boring would it be scan all the documents. Before deciding to buy portable scanners online estimate how frequently you will use. This is one of the important points to choose a scanner.

Frequency of moving – You choice of buying depends whether you need a scanner for saving space at your office or home or you are working in the field of insurance, sales, etc that means you are always traveling. For the first case opt for compact models and for travel purpose choose handheld portable scanners.

Features – Features like OCR can become a part of your regular needs. If you are planning to find specific words in the documents later, then please check whether your model has an OCR feature. The file format in which the digitized copies will be made also matters as JPEG files do not contain text like PDF.

Compatibility with your operating system – Certain scanner drivers work with Windows OS only. However, if you have a MAC OS, check whether it is compatible with all the devices. At the websites, there will be information about the scanner drivers that require subscription on a monthly basis, so choose wisely before ordering.

As there are lots of scanners, it is difficult to make a list of the best ones. However, if you keep the above points in mind, you will definitely grab your perfect scanner. Here we have discussed one type of portable scanner that mainly caters to travelers. It is a low-cost one and can be powered with USB. The weight is 11 ounces or 311 grams, multiple settings, VRS technology for enhancing the scan quality, optical resolution is 600 dpi and intelligent recognition of texts. You can save the documents directly to PDF and compatible with Windows and MAC OS.

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