Advice for a small receipt and business card scanner?

Published by in edtech on June 16th, 2007

One of the most tedious parts of my current job is meticulously keeping receipts for all travel expenses. Friday a co-worker told me about the “scanalizer” scanner she read about in an airline in-flight catalog, and I read up about it a bit online. I’d love to have something like this, but would prefer a model that is also Macintosh compatible.

Does anyone have experiences or insights into a portable scanner like this, which can both scan receipts as well as business cards directly into an address book application? I do have WinXP running via Parallels on my Macbook, so I could use a Windows-only solution, but I’d prefer a cross platform one.

A cursory Google search shows the DocuPen RC800 is available for Windows and Macintosh users (including Intel-based Mac users) but is more costly than the scanalizer: $350 versus about $200. The Pentax DSmobile® USB portable scanner is not really an option, since it must be connected to a computer and can’t run on its own, saving to internal memory. (It’s about $135.)

Any suggestions or experiences to share?

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