Thread: Visioneer strobe 400 scanner.

Scanners are large chunky devices, commonly discovered on top of inkjet printers, aren't they? Flatbed scanners, of which that's a reasonable description, are larger than a sheet of A4 document and hold slightly fragile sheets of glass, by which text, graphics and pictures are scanned. There's any other type, although, which is a lot littler, more robust and, in the case of Visioneer's Strobe 400, able of scanning both sides of the document in a individual pass.


This is a document-feed scanner, planed to be portable plenty to slip into a briefcase, and it can be powered from the provided USB cable or from a low voltage power supply, too in the box. As the scanner type hints, it's just suitable for scanning documents you can feed by the slot at the front, although it's robust plenty to bring photographs, business cards and yet plastic ID cards, although it may have problem with any card that's embossed. It's evidently not suitable for books, magazines and any other bound references.



1ce the software has been set up, any documents fed by automatically trigger a connection and implication the scanned files, if requirement distinguishing them by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) en route. The scanning speed is batter, well up to that from a typical Automatic paper Feeder (ADF) on a home all-in-1 printer.

There are 2 buttons on the end of the scanner, too, and these can be programmed to scan to special destinations, such as files in a given folder, or to transfer into a chose application. Scanning can be automated like this, so it can be expressed out by relatively non-techie people.