Doxie Go SE - Portable A4 Document Scanner With Rechargeable Battery And Brilliant Software

Really impressed with this scanner. Had an older Epson all in one that refused to join my Wifi after changing providers (known issue with Epson, so wasnt going to get another of their products). Took some time to review lots of scanners, looked at flat beds, and auto feeder scanners, and initially dismissed the Doxie Go SE Wifi as it was "just" a portable scanner. Luckily I did go back and check reviews and read some more online and decided to give it a shot.So glad I did! Really small, and portable and easy to use. The speed of scanning is totally great, honestly I was used to waiting for the lamp to warm up on the Epson all in one, then it did preview and then finally scanned, which took ages and then I had to manually crop to fit the image, then convert to pdf or image. Looking back now it was so much effort and time just to scan a few pages.The Doxie Go SE Wifi is really fast at scanning in comparison to my old all in one, like about 5 seconds per page. Can easily just keep feeding pages one after the other and it handles the auto cropping and rotation automatically which is nice. Plus the software is easy to use, has the ability to "staple" pages together to make multi-page pdfs, scan to OCR etc. The Doxie website is also a good resource and help for getting used to the scanner, knowing what the lights mean, how to setup to join your wifi etc.The scanner comes with a memory card for storing the scans onto it, and is plenty for storing thousands of scans. Then at some later date you can switch on the wifi on the scanner, load up the Doxie software app, and wait like 30 seconds to join the network, then its ready to import all the scans. The battery is chargable via the micro-usb to USB-A cable provided - I attach to my PC to charge mine up.Really happy with this device. The people at Doxie reached out to say hi, and offered advice and support if needed on using the scanner. So a really nice touch. Would buy again and would recommend it to friends and family.

I use this scanner when I visit clients and need to take copies of documents. It is quicker than taking a photo if you take into account that you don't need to flatten the page, get the lighting right then line up your shot. and the end result is far better. Transfer of scans to the computer using the intuitive software from Doxie is easy and even the lower resolution scan makes a readable pdf with no problems on my Windows 11 laptop.I have only found 1 small problem: when carrying the scanner in a bag, the SD card can pop out slightly and needs to be re-inserted - no big deal you may think, and you'd be right. However, Doxie kindly supplied me with their purpose made carry case after I had paid for the scanner. It turned out that it is really worth having. I may well buy another scanner for a colleague and would definitely buy the case to go with it. The case has semi-hard sides and provides a good deal of protection. It keeps the scanner and lead together and so far, has solved the problem of the SD card popping out.In essence, this scanner is saving me a lot of time and produces better results than previous methods. It is light-weight and very portable. It is best suited to documents rather than photos though the colour balance is not awful by any means. You can't use it to scan pages of books. If you want to go paperless with documents this is a great tool to help.

Useful bit of kit. Can be used on the move. Easy to carry as you do not need to take your PC/Mac with you and can download later. Scans quickly. easy to set up. Customer service team very helpful

The good - fast, simple scanning without wires trailing everywhere, no need even to turn on the PC/laptop. Good scan quality for documents (I'd use a flatbed for photos). No button pressing - just present the document and let go once it's started - very fast process.The not so good - simplex not duplex is a real pain, as is not having a document feeder. And why is it soooo slow at importing images from the Doxie's SD card? I scanned about 500 documents this evening and it's taking 5+ seconds to import each one = about 40 minutes! It's like going back to 1990. From my cameras SD card that much data would have taken... 30 seconds? It's no deal breaker, I can just leave it running (while I write this review!).So far, very impressed. Got totally fed up of my (2nd) Scansnap - confusing, unreliable software, having to have wires trailing everywhere, laptop on, press buttons after every single scan... it just drove me crazy and willnow only be used for large (over 10 pages) documents.Well, I have no more to say just yet and the import is still only a third of the way through, very odd. If it takes this long to transfer a few jpgs, how long is it going to take to convert them all to PDF and OCR them?!UPDATE: Day 2.... Preview of scanned images - it would be really handy to be able to see what I'd just scanned to make sure it scanned correctly. I've now done over 800 scans and there have been a few duff images, but only two where a document was messed up. That's a great success rate but even the low failure rate is enough to mean I have to check every single one before converting to pdf. I would definitely have paid the extra £25 for the Wifi one if (?) that gives you a wireless preview after very scan.Software - it's pretty simple/intuitive and a billion light years ahead of the Scansnap's overly-complex nightmare of confusion and often simply refusing to connect.Would I buy another? Yes, 100%.