A White Paperby John Capurso, Vice President of Marketing, Visioneer Inc., a Xerox® Trademark Licensee
Despite the trend toward everything digital, paper has not gone away. And while we have great technology in our offices to capture, organize and share the information we possess in paper form, finding a solution for reliable document capture while on the road has been difficult. A portable scanner is an attractive option with the functionality of being able to scan almost anything, anywhere that you have your laptop. But what if you don’t have a laptop with you, or don’t want to carry it? Or you do, but you are somewhere with no Internet connection and you desperately need to send your scanned file to someone else? You could take a picture with your cell phone, but is that really the best solution?
When given the choice to capture a document with a portable scanner or a phone camera, there are many issues to consider. And many people would simply say, “but, my phone is with me all the time, I’ll just take a picture of the document, it’s good enough.” Maybe...
Portable scanners have taken a tremendous functional leap recently with the introduction of the Xerox® Mobile Scanner. This mobile scanner represents a new category of portable scanners that “talks” to mobile phones and pads. These battery-powered, cordless scanners don’t need a computer to operate. They are simple to use, create a PDF or JPG file of your scanned page and store it on a USB stick or SD memory card. To make it even more impressive, the Xerox Mobile Scanner comes with a wireless SD card that transmits the scanned files to your computer, phone, pad or the cloud over any Wi-Fi network. So now it is possible to not only scan without a computer, but also transfer the files to your phone and share them anywhere. Let’s consider the options and consequences of all this.
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