Scanners Archive

  • Canon’s imageFORMULA P-150M portably scans documents into your Mac, no lie

    Canon’s imageFORMULA P-150M portably scans documents into your Mac, no lie

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Does your Mac need a new scanner? (I think I've had the same scanner for like 10 years. The Mac driver is still for PPC processors, that's how old it is.) I ask because I needed a fun way to segue into a brief discussion of the Canon imageFORMULA P-150M, which, as you may have surmised, is a scanner that works with your Mac.

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  • Evernote coming to Canon scanners

    Evernote coming to Canon scanners

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    The Evernote news just doesn't stop, does it? Hot on the heels of Evernote integration with Lexmark printers and Fujitsu scanners comes word that Evernote will be integrating with the new P-150 scanners from Canon.

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  • Review: Doxie document scanner

    Review: Doxie document scanner

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    This is a great scanner for occasional scanning of single pages. It doesn't have an auto document feeder, so you're not going to use it for large scanning jobs. You'll use it to scan your W-2, or old family photos, or that newspaper clipping your mom saved from when you did something famous in your home town. For $129 it provides a good deal of functionality, including the ability to send your scanned items directly to a number of online services (Flickr, Picnik, etc). It's small and lightweight, which makes it a no-brainer to take with you on the go; but the form factor does present some placement issues.

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  • Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 hits the streets: An impressively powerful portable scanner

    Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 hits the streets: An impressively powerful portable scanner

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Sure, I know what you're thinking: scanners are a bit boring. But Fujitsu hopes to tempt you with some of its delicious ScanSnap S1300 features including direct to PDF scanning as well as scanning directly into Excel spreadsheets. That's right: you can recreate a printed Excel sheet just by sliding it through the scanner. Cool, right? The S1300 is a mobile scanner which means it should fit in something like a briefcase. Almost everything you scan is searchable and you can even highlight tags and search terms with a highlighter. With tax season coming up, this might be a good way to store and send all of your precious W2s.

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  • iConvert Photo Scanner promises simple 4×6 snapshot archiving

    iConvert Photo Scanner promises simple 4×6 snapshot archiving

    Posted on January 2, 2010 | No Comments
    You don’t really have to start in on your New Year’s resolutions until Monday. Friday was pretty much a gimme and now it’s the weekend, so just rest up for whatever thing you’re going to try to do for a week before quitting. If digitizing old-timey family photos is on your list, this new-ish scanner is powered via USB cable and features simple one-button operation.

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  • Full body scanners at airports reveal your junk

    Full body scanners at airports reveal your junk

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Full-body scanners are being tested in a variety of airports. I didn't get the pleasure of using one on my recent trip to Japan, unfortunately, so I can't provide a first-hand account of what it's like. I suspect it's quite unremarkable to walk through one of these. That won't stop people from being outraged over the fact that some TSA goon sitting in a sterile room somewhere where he can't see the individual walking through the scanner gets to drool over grainy black-and-white images of everyone's naughty bits!

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  • Did you know that your iPhone is also a document scanner?

    Did you know that your iPhone is also a document scanner?

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, look, a legitimately clever use of the iPhone, and one that's not hard at all to replicate at home. Essentially, you set your iPhone on a raised surface, then you snap away using the phone's camera. Congratulations, you've just created an inexpensive document scanner.

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