Scanning docs on the Move
Epson has recently launched Epson WorkForce DS-30, first-ever portable A4 scanner, ideal for mobile workers who require document scanning on-the-go and service staff that need to conserve desk space or maintain a neat counter appearance.
It can scan documents ranging from business cards to A4 and letter sized (8.5 x 11 inch) documents. Further it is designed with an LED light source that has a low power consumption of up to only 500mA to conserve the battery power of its users’ notebooks.
The scanner also comes with powerful third-party scanning software that includes Presto! BizCard 5 business card scanner and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 9 optical character recognition (OCR) software (Microsoft Windows version).
Key Features
1. Epson ReadyScan Technology: Due to this, the scanners’ LED lamp requires no warm up time and is able to perform immediately with minimum energy consumption, making them extremely environmentally friendly and energy efficient. 2. Auto Area Segmentation: This feature automatically detects text and picture areas on a page and scans text in black-and-white and pictures in halftone to achieve the best results. 3. Colour Enhance: Colour Enhance is a smart function to clearly capture specific colours on office documents that would otherwise be nonvisible using normal black-and-white scanners. For example, enhancing signatures on cheques, documents using blue ink or ‘Confidential’ and ‘Urgent’ stamps that use red ink, etc. 4. Colour Dropout: Conversely, this feature can be used to remove a single colour (red, green or blue) from documents; such as coloured backgrounds, stamps or text black-and-white scanning. 5. Punch Hole Removal: When activated, this feature automatically detects and removes punchhole marks. 6. Correct Document Skew: When selected in the options, this feature automatically straightens slanted or misaligned documents in the feeder. 7. Document Capture Pro Software: – It guides the users through steps needed to scan, view, edit and transfer scanned documents to various destinations (that include email, a Microsoft Windows network folder, FTP, Google Docs, etc) from one point to another.