Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner

List Price: $139.99 Discount Price: $117.93

Features:

• Only 12 ounces and measuring just 11 inches in length
• User-friendly sheet-fed design
• Optical Resolution: 600 dpi
• Scanning Modes: 48-bit internally, outputs 24-bit true color; 8-bit gray scale; 1-bit bi-level B&W
• Operating Systems: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME SE, Mac OSX 10.3 and later (download from www.pentaxtech.com)

Customer Reviews:

Now sad.... [Posted on 2008-04-13]
I purchased this portable scanner about 3 months ago from Antonline.
It worked great for the past 3 months scanning up to 50pages a day, at different times over a 12-hr period.
The document feeder/wheels are barely functioning now, and are making a grinding sound. When they "hang up", the page is distorted to the point of being non-readable.
So...3 months of "five star" and a few days of "zero star". I am really disappointed.

GREAT FOR TEACHERS!! [Posted on 2008-04-17]
Love, love love this!! I can scan in documents to review with my class on the projector!! AWESOME!!! Easy to use and portable. I highly recommend it!

Worth it even if you have another scanner. Great for Mac [Posted on 2008-04-20]
I have hundreds of articles, reviews, and other articles that rip out of magazines for later use. I have kept them categorized in file folders but I'm tired of the space they consume. We already have a flatbed scanner so I started scanning some of them to PDF. It was not even worth the hassle. I looked at a highly rated scanner that has a document feeder and has a version especially made for the Mac, but it is $500. No way.

Having looked at all of the less expensive scanning options I went with the DSmobile 600. All I can say is, fantastic. I had read all of the reviews from Mac users and understood that you need to get the driver from the Pentax site. It was that simple. In fact, the CD that comes with the unit is essentially worthless for Mac users. Just ensure you have some image capturing software, install the Mac driver from the site, hook up the scanner, select the scanner in your image capturing software, and start feeding the scanner.

You can select the scanning quality, whether you want black/white or color, and then it's just a matter of working out what is best for your intended use. There is an OCR option which I don't use but tried it once and the results were rather impressive, but the page I scanned was mostly text so that is kind of expected. Sometimes it takes a little bit of work to get the page to actually feed into the scanner and sometimes they get a little mis-aligned, but with it being such a quick process it wasn't frustrating to redo it. And that didn't happen that often. Otherwise, the feeds are quick and doing multi-page articles is painless.

I use Yep! to manage and scan PDFs and it worked flawlessly in the set-up of the TWAIN driver, finding the scanner, and then giving great options for converting the scanned images into PDFs. With Yep! you can also assign your own metatags which are then easily searchable either in Yep! or using Spotlight. A very powerful combination. With the cost of hard drive storage so cheap nowadays, I just have all of the PDFs going to one folder and it will be more than enough for my entire collection for extremely efficient searching and perusal over the years. I consider the DSmobile and Yep! to be the perfect solution to my needs.

No Complaints, Works Great. [Posted on 2008-04-25]
This scanner is nice and compact and works exactly as advertised. I use it for scanning receipts and other various documents and it performs flawlessly for that. It will produce multi-page PDF files with no hassle and the software that is included is more than adequate for most tasks. I have not scanned photos with it nor do I have plans to so I cannot comment on its usefulness for that task. Compared to other similar products the price, features and performance make this an easy pick. BTW, The little carrying pouch WILL hold the scanner and usb cable together if you carefully coil the cable and slide it in the pouch as you insert the scanner.

Great size, great find- especially for traveling!! [Posted on 2008-04-28]
After returning from business trips with envelopes and stacks of receipts to expense, I had been looking for a portable scanner so that they could be easily be managed. This small scanner works great. It comes with a pouch and is the size of a traveling umbrella.

The installation was easy and has worked without incident. I scan receipts, meeting notes and handouts and can forward and file on the spot, great productivity.

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