Antec Attache Portable Color Scanner
Written: Apr 01 '01
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Pros: Small, lightweight and most important, it works exceptionally well.
Cons: Not too good for scanning from bound books.
The Bottom Line: An ideal tool for the road warrior who has a need to copy sheet documents away from the office. Great for exhibitors to scan at trade shows.
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| lucie30's Full Review: Antec Attache Handheld Scanner |
Good news fellow road warriors, a powerful new weapon has been added to our arsenal. Now we can readily conquer the paper monster and rapidly scan full color documents into our notebook computers, without having to carry heavy, bulky hardware. The Antec Color Scanner weighs less than 12 oz., with dimensions of 10.87 inches long, 1.88 inches wide and 1.75 inches high. It comes with its own carrying case and does not require batteries or a separate power supply. It easily fits into my laptop case and is a wonderful tool to fax, e-mail or import documents into the computer while on the road. Any time or place that you can use your notebook, you can use this scanner. It attaches to the PC Card Port on the notebook and draws its power from the notebook supply. It is fully TWAIN compliant and is a 300X600 dpi color scanner that can handle paper sizes ranging from business cards to legal (8X14 inches) with thicknesses from 0.8 through 1mm. Scanning time for a standard sheet of black and white is 35 seconds. For an 8.5X11 inch 24-bit true color image the scanning time is 108 seconds. This scanner is rugged; it is designed to be portable.
There is a full software suite supplied on a CD-ROM, that includes, Presto Page Manager, Paper Type OCR and PageImage photo editing software. This is all you need to handle just about any document. Image formats supported are: JPEG, GIF, TIFF and BMP. Twain compliance means that it is compatible with any other Twain software product that you may already have.
The installation is straightforward. Insert the CD, run SETUP and follow the screen instructions. Connect the Attaché to the PCMCIA port or if you have the Antec DataChute,you may connect it to your desktop. From Page Manager, or other Twain compliant software, select the Antec Twain Control Panel as the source. Click Acquire, then the Calibration page. Insert the calibration sheet into the scanner. You are now ready to use the Attaché.
Now whenever you click ACQUIRE, and you select the Attaché, you will have a choice of 5 scanning modes. FAX, E-Mail, OCR, Photo or Magazine. Select the mode compatible with that which you wish to scan and you are in business. It is actually much more intuitive, hence simpler than the description may imply. There is also a custom setting, should any of these 5 modes not suit your purpose.
I had no trouble at all installing to my Dell notebook and the results speak for themselves.
The Attaché is priced at $149 retail and is available at all major computer outlets.
This is a tremendously capable a versatile tool for road warriors and its negligible weight and small size make it easy to carry with you. This is a must for all those who have a need to acquire documents and images on the road and send them elsewhere in an expeditious manner.
Visit the Antec web site at www.antec-inc.com for additional information.
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Amount Paid (US$): 149
Interface: Don't know
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