If you want something that's going to do a good job and not take up a lot of room doing it this is your scanner. Easy to use and maintain.

When it comes portable scanners, this is an excellent option as it measures less than 12 inches long and weighs only three pounds, so you can carry it around in a computer bag or briefcase.

Back at the dawn of personal computing, people began to talk about The Next Big Thing on the horizon-a paperless office. Computers would make our lives so simple that we would no longer need documents on paper. Decades later, this utopian state is still not a reality.

The latest version of Fujitsu's high-end, portable, sheet-feed scanner, the ScanSnap S1300i, has a number of improvements over its S1300 predecessor, including speed and scanning to mobile devices.

Good custom-written software; Automated scans to many destinations; Excellent OCR results

No onboard memory; Setup can be touchy; No case provided

A highly-portable, easy to use document scanner that produces great results

The S1300 is silver and gray. It folds down nicely in to a compact 11.18 x 3.90 x 3.03 inches and weighs in at 3.08 lbs. It's a little bit thick at 3.03-inches, but will fit in to larger laptop bags, perhaps even a large briefcase.

The ScanSnap S1300i is a relatively minor update to Fujitsu's impressive S1300 document scanner, with the chief differences being a refreshed software bundle and quicker scan speeds, up from eight pages per minute (ppm) to 12ppm. The S1300i seems quite rugged.

For scanning documents on the go, reviewers say the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i offers the best combination of speed, accuracy, and portability. This 3-pound scanner fits easily in a carry-on bag, can accommodate up to 20 sheets in its feeder.

Compact; Excellent OCR; Easy to use

No TWAIN driver; Slow