The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX100 ($229) is a manual-feed portable document scanner designed for capturing data to your laptop, smartphone, or tablet on the road. The iX100 is an update to a 2014 Editors' Choice product by the same name that, at the time, was one of the most impressive portable document scanners we'd ever seen. While the ScanSnap iX100's hardware is primarily the same, its software bundle is entirely different, and is perhaps one of the most comprehensive collections of portable document scanner utilities we've ever seen. As a single-sheet manual-feed device, though, it's designed for small one- and two-page scan jobs. Within those confines, the iX100 is an exceptional-value portable scanner. Moderate Hardware for Modest Jobs Portable document scanners come in two distinct flavors. There's single-sheet devices like the iX100 that accept one page at a time and therefore require you to insert each page manually. And then there's multi-page sheet-feed portables, such as th...
The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX100 is a fast and feature-packed manual-feed document scanner designed for light-duty data capture on the road.
Accurate OCR; Fast; Robust software bundle; Versatile connectivity options, including mobile; Reasonable price
Lacks single-pass auto-duplexing