Visioneer RW120-WU RoadWarrior Sheetfed Scanner
The Visioneer RoadWarrior is the perfect companion for the mobile professional. Weighing just 10.6 ounces, it produces fast and easy 36-bit color scans to organize all of your receipts, business cards, documents and photos up to 600 dpi in all major file formats including searchable PDF. The RoadWarrior packs easily in a laptop bag and is powered by the USB port to scan wherever AC power is unavailable. Bundled software includes ScanSoft PaperPort, the industry's leading desktop and image management software.
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Visioneer RW120-WU RoadWarrior Sheetfed Scanner Reviews
The unit does a very good job of scanning a doc into pdf file. It help me keep organize when I am on the rosd. I am able to take it with me on the road.
For me in my application, it was only worth two stars. It is a very cool scanner, except it does not have the proper rollers/adhesion to handle thermal paper. I purchased this scanner so that I could begin digitizing all of my receipts into Quicken for my purchases. Especially if they are wrinkled or folded. Thermal receipts are a severe challenge for this scanner.
As far as hardware requirements go, my wife runs this on a mini-ITX system with a rather weak processor (1 GHz Via processor, 256 MB). The included BizCard application worked great. Also the auto-straightening software is sometimes confused when the original contains a diagonal edge, but that feature is easily turned off. The software is a bit clunky (too many mouse clicks to get to the setting you want to change), but you get used to it.
After that things worked great. It is much easier to stack and unstack things there as well as do other forms of editing like annotation and cropping. It has handled every task that we have thrown at it. No problem. Cons: When I first installed the scanner, I could not get it to calibrate properly and the scans had light streaks. After using it for a while, my wife wanted to scan in her business card collection. I called Visioneer tech support and they guided me through downloading and installing a fix from their web site.
Some have complained about the difficulty of getting the scanner to feed straight. I was torn between purchasing the RoadWarrior and the Pentax DS Mobile 600. Photos.piece of cake. One last piece of advice: when creating pdfs, use the Paperport desktop as the destination for the scan rather than Acrobat Reader. She also found the need to scan and OCR documents into Word. I bought this scanner for my wife who originally just wanted something to scan in her recipe collection.
The software description of the Pentax is rather scant, so it's hard to compare, but I believe the RoadWarrior wins in terms of flexibility. The software performs well even in that environment. We have largely solved that problem by increasing the paper pickup delay to the max setting (1.25 seconds). I'm glad I bought this one.
I especially like the bundled software - notably PAPERPORT 11. I have been a paperport user for more than 5 years, and cannot live without it anymore. Whenever I go to business trips or, conferences, or seminars - I now scan all of my business cards as well as my travel receipts. that I had lying around and could never find when I needed them. It needs no external power, and only needs the USB port to work. The fields automatically populate off of the card, which then get transferred to my outlook contacts. Again - A PERFECT portable scanner that sits in my home desk drawer until I need it - as well as my suitcase when I travel.
Instead of MS explorer, Paperport creates little bitmaps of each document and allows easy visual views of documents. I Love this Scanner. It is extremely easy to use, simple and quite fast. NEVER MISS ANOTHER BUSINESS LEAD. Since it scans text as well as high resolution photo's, it is perfect for eliminating all of those stored papers, articles, recipes, etc. Would make a great gift for any executive in your family.
Another GREAT bundled software program is the business card scanner.
On the other hand, software is kind of buggy. Once it does, works fine. Can scan both sides of page to one file. Scans photos well. Scans directly to PDF to open in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Upon install, Paperport takes a long time to open. At first, software install froze. I like that no AC power is needed, is USB powered.
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