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The software to view scanned images on the scanner works fine. However, every time I want to export the images from the scanner to my Vista laptop hard drive, I had to export 1 image at a time, cuz if I export a group of them, they will all be corrupted and not viewable. I don't believe it's a Vista issue, and had to return the scanner and got hit with a 15% restocking fee. If you want to try it, please make sure you pick "Item doesn't work" when you return it, cuz returning it with a "item doesn't work as expected" will make you a 15% poorer.

I always dreamt about having a portable scanner when I visit libraries for my investigation work, as I spent hours copying pages and pages of articles and then break my back carrying the heavy luggage around. I could not believe that docupen gadget was so simple and so portable. So the first impression was of Five stars.

Getting it installed was quite easy, though the instructions weren't that clear. Also installed the microSD to jump up the storage from 8MB to 2GB.

Problems started when I got to scanning. Took me a while to hold it straight and move without jerks, but I should say the design is fairly well done and an hour later I was flying with the scanner. BUT IT WOULD JUST NOT ACCEPT THE SCANS! If I turn on color or photo scanning, even at low intensity, at the end of a careful scan, the pen would just blink all its lights and would not save the data. After two weeks of trials, I have figured out that it accepts only the first two color scans (memory is no problem with my extra microSD) and after that I managed to save only B/W scans at low intensity. So far I was able to save some |5 scans before downloading them. When I erase all the images, I was able to get the first two as color scans again, but never after that! And some color scans are very good while others got the colors inverted! Overall, if the document has a decent level surface (not all books have such bindings) the scan comes out fairly good (not print quality, but readable).

Downloading is not that difficult. I used straight Docupen downloading (for one or two images, in tiff format) and the papersoft program with Jpg extension (for large no of images). Papersoft does not allow changing image title for each image, it just numbers them in the order of scanning. I have to rename them afterwards. Would have been better if I could name them in groups, in the process of downloading itself.

Well, I am not all too happy with the Docupen, but will try to work on getting it to save at least 75% of my scans, since current rate is at |0%! Because, not many libraries have scanners available for users, and I hate having to photocopy so many pages.

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I do not own this product, but I was strongly considering it before a friend told me about the VuPoint Solutions® Magic Wand(tm) Portable Scanner (Model # PDS-ST410-VP, ). It is slightly larger, but still easily portable and usable. I bought one last night. They retail for $100.00, and they are available at Bed, Bath & Beyond, both retail and online. I used one of those 20% off coupons that they are always sending out and got it for $80.00. It does not come with any memory, so you have to purchase a separate Micro SD card (up to 32GB), but the coupon I used easily paid for an 8GB Micro SD. It supports 300x300 dpi standard scans and 600x600 dpi high resolution scans in either color or B&W. Scan speed for a page at standard resolution is 3 seconds, high resolution is 13 seconds. When connected to a computer with the included USB cable (PC or Mac), it shows up as a drive, just like a camera does. The included (optional) PC software is ABBYY Screenshot Reader (), which does a passable job at OCR of an area of your screen that you designate, but the software does not have any training ability.

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Very small, easy to use.

Delicate piece, handle with care!

Good quality for a portable scanner, pen-like. I use it everywhere.

Scanned pages do not compare to a flat-bed scanner, but are decent for later reading / printing.

Highly recommend for the road warrior!

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Low quality scans, b/w or color

auto-shutdown in the middle of a scan

slow data transfer

Iron Age software

impossible to get a full A4 scan, without a shutdown, X icon or steady image.