Top Ten Handheld Scanners

With the advancement of technology, many slim and light scanners are now available in the markets which are easily portable. Here is a brief description of the 10 best handheld scanners available in the market.

Epson WorkForce DS-30:

This scanner has been recently launched in the Indian market. Its compact design and weight of just 325 grams makes it even more attractive. The best feature is that it can scan all kinds of documents. 

HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile Scanner:

Its an optical scanner which can be plugged in to a PC's USB 2.0 port and save the scanned documents in PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word file, JPEG and many other formats. It’s available in a sleek design and has a scanning speed of up to 15 ppm.

 Plustek MobileOffice S420:

This scanner is capable of converting reports, paper documents and business card in to various other formats like word, excel, PDF, JPG and bmp. This device has a scanning speed of about 12 pages per minute.  

Portronics Scanny 4:

The best feature of this sleek scanner is its 1 inch LCD screen where one can view all the scanned documents or photo with 2X, 4X and 8X zoom. In just 3 seconds, it can scan a whole A4 size document with the scan quality of up to 900 dpi.

 HipStreet Handi-scan Portable Scanner:

It’s considered to be the best scanner for scanning images. Its unique feature is that it runs on two AA batteries and also supports microSD card up to 32GB with which all the scanned images and files can be easily stored. 

Magic Wand PDS-ST410A-VP Scanner:

Like HipStreet Handy, this scanner also runs on 2x AA alkaline batteries.  This device is powered with the speed of 28 seconds for high-resolution color, 14 seconds for high-resolution Black&White, 8 seconds for low resolution color and 4 seconds for low resolution Black&White.

iBall ClickScan A4:

This scanner which comes with a 2 megapixel CMOS active pixel digital image sensor can scan A4 documents and high quality photos in a fraction of seconds. It can be used with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Portronics Scanny:

It is considered to be the best portable scanner for color and monochromatic images, documents and magazines. It works on plug-n-play mechanism and supports micro SD card up to 32 GB and has a scanning width of 8.27 inches.

Portronics Scanny 2:

Equipped with different power options like USB, AA Batteries and AC power, this device can scan A4 documents with graphics at a resolution of 300 and 600 dpi.

 Plustek MobileOffice S400:

This scanner comes with two single-touch customizable buttons and can scan documents at a speed is 3ppm.  The best feature of this device is that it can scan directly to searchable PDF format.