14 DAY TRIAL // Scanners have been getting smaller and smaller as we have seen with devices such as the Magic Wand and Doxie Go, but now a Swiss-based company claims to have produced the smallest wireless scanner to have ever graced the world.
So here comes the Dacuda PocketScan, which looks a little bit like an old voice recorder. To scan your documents, all users need to do is to lightly brush over the pieces of paper with the device.
The content is captured in real time, with OCR technology taking charge of things in order to transform the scanned context into editable text, tablets and images.
Yes, the PocketScan is smart enough to transform tables into Excel sheets, so you can immediately go on and edit them in Word.
PocketScan is kept alive by the patented SLAM Scan software that apparently takes advantage of robotic principles with real-time image analysis.
So even if you’re hectic hand movements will produce overlapping images, the software is capable of aligning them in real time, while the extra amount of data is used to deliver optimizations to the final output.
The SLAM Scan enjoys support for more than 198 languages, so the PocketScan will be capable of recognizing text that’s not written in English.
PocketScan is aware that you spend most of your time on social media, so it will let you share scanned content by virtue of a single click.
Anyway, we were saying that the portable scanner is the smallest available to us, and to prove this statement, we’re going to provide you with the measurements. The mini-scanner is just 1.96 x 1.06 x 0.78 inches / 50 x 27 x 20 mm and weighs 2.9 oz / 85 g.
The battery powering PocketScan should take you as far as 400 separate scans. The little device is compatible with PC, Mac and iOS devices, but compatibility for Android devices will be added further on.
The scanner will pair with your device via Bluetooth and once you scan the content, it will instantly appear on the screen. Dacuda claims PocketScan can capture documents at up to 400 dpi. The device comes with a built-in lightning system, so you can scan even in not so great lighting conditions.
The mini scanner is not available for purchase yet, as Dacuda has the project up on Kickstarter gathering funds, but the initial goal has already been reached. Now the company has an additional goal set for $500,000 / €365,595 which will enable it to add the text-to-speech function.
