ClickScan - Portable Scanner brings the ‘paperless’ society one step closer to reality;

Printers, scanners and other accessories have become indispensable for many users. But nobody wants a big, bulky, unattractive scanner on the desk. Having a cluttered desk can make anyone feel uninspired and unmotivated at work. Mumbai-based Best IT World, that markets computer peripherals under the iBall brand, seems to have an answer to these problems. It has introduced a portable scanner, ClickScan, which makes it incredibly easy to scan documents and high quality photos to share or store. With the portable scanner, your desk can quickly become impeccable. More importantly, you can now have a scanner for home or office use and not have to worry about a bigger and bulkier scanner taking up space that you simply cannot spare.

At a core level, portable scanners allow business travelers to be productive on the go. It is increasingly being considered as a must-have tool for busy individuals who don’t have time or patience to search for scanning services in a hotel conference room or nearby cybercafes. While the ClickScan portable scanner requires you to pay an upfront cost (R7,450 for A4 model and R9,990 for A3), investing in it is more than work it. This tool will pay for itself over its lifetime.

Another important benefit of using this portable scanner is the amount of time you save. For example, you can manage business cards, receipts, contracts, and even scraps of paper easily on the computer. Digitalising these things allows you to organise documents and even lessen your workload. You can set up the computer to handle most of the tasks. The medium type that this scanner can capture include a book, actual product, picture, character, magazine, ID card, visiting card or even a photograph. ClickScan is useful for every industry and is especially useful in banking, financial services and insurance sector where many documents need to be scanned, stored and printed.

Foldable and contactless, ClickScan captures any document up to A3 size at high resolution in about one second. And, in its role as a copier, this device enables the captured document to be printed out via any printer. A user can also project a paper document or a real object to the large screen using PC or laptop and projector.

Set up is simple and extremely user-friendly. ClickScan is USB powered, therefore, no adapter is required. It has an image resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels (2.0 MP). Picture formats supported include JPG, BMP, TIF, PDF, GIF, PNG, TGA and PCX. As far as operating systems go, the scanner supports Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7. Office 2003 or Office 2007 are needed for OCR function.

Strictly from a user point of view, one can be more productive with ClickScan. One can retain all important documents on file—there’s no need to worry that you’ll drop an important piece of paper. Having all these on your computer gives peace of mind. Then, frequent travelers can surely relate to the difficulty of bringing tonnes of papers everywhere. With this scanner, they can simply carry one device and go over the files at their leisure.

ClickScan also promises an environment-friendly way to do business. It’s a no-brainer that working digitally is a lot more friendly to the environment than printing and reprinting documents. And this portable scanner brings the ‘paperless’ society one step closer to reality. Lastly, depending on your business, being able to scan documents may be critical to the company. The fact that you can scan, store, and send important documents instantly gives you an important competitive advantage.

Looking at the capabilities and features of this portable scanner, it surely gives the best value for money.

Source | Financial Express | 22 December 2011