Scanners are great products, they are extremely useful for many things, but most scanners aren’t quite portable. I’ve personally owned quite a few scanners in my life and while the flatbed scanners have gotten slimmer and lighter you won’t be carrying them around with you to scan documents on the go. Most traditional scanners require a connection to your computer and a power connection as well to work making them very limited in their portability.
What you need is a scanner that is small, lightweight, portable, self-powered and doesn’t require a computer to work, sounds like something that James Bond might have in his fictional arsenal of cool gadgets, but thanks to the folks at Planon it’s a reality.
Up on the review block today is the DocuPen RC800 Color Handheld Scanner, and it is truly a portable scanner. It’s rechargeable, so no external power supply is needed, it stores its scans in the on-board memory, so no computer is required and it’s just a bit wider than a standard piece of paper. The DocuPen scanner is truly a portable device that gives its owner true freedom to get work done and be productive, it’s very lightweight, comes with it’s own carrying case and is very easy to use, so read on to learn more…

