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We love this BUT only after you figure it out the finer details. My wife wants to scan all of our old photos pre-digital so I got her this to help with that mission (we have MANY photos). I have 3 scanners or all in ones in my house and I will say the Doxie Plus is the ONLY way to go for mass scanning images that are 8x10 or smaller. That is all you need to know on the positive and now I will address the issues I had. I am a techi so I assume this can be used without any reading but that is not he case.
I did glance over documentation and see that it has built in memory but you can add more via the SD slot. So I grabbed a spare 64gb card and stuck it in there. It would not power on and stop blinking like it was supposed to. After digging I find out that it ONLY supports special SD cards (really!!!!) That is absolutely ridiculous, but there is actually plenty of built in memory.
So I removed the SD card and it powers up fine. In the process of trying to figure out the bootup problem (having standard SD card in slot), I tried to locate a "Calibration PDF" on their website. This is the sheet you run through the scanner to calibrate it. Can you believe they make you buy that if you lose it! Another blunder in my opinion. My wife had the calibration page but I am letting you know so if you buy a used one you better make sure the calibration card is in there or your will have to buy another one if the calibration is ever needed again (not sure why you would but just letting you know).
Once the scanner is turned on the light is green (300 dpi scan). If you press the button again, it goes to Orange which is 600dpi. They should have a simple sticker above the power button telling you this but they don't and they should allow you to set a default setting which they don't.
We are doing photos so we did the scans at 600 dpi which still went plenty fast enough. 300dpi is REALLY fast (ie for documents).
After you scan all of your photos, you have to open the software to import the scanned photos. BUT, when you click on the "Import" button in top right corner, it has not completed the import process. After you select all the images on the screen, you have to click on the SAVE button down below actually save them to your local drive. Why they do not allow you to just click the import and have the save process as part of that I do not know. It is just one extra step you have to do to save the photos.
But even with these problem I still give this thing 5 stars. My wife is having to use our Epson 7510 for the larger pictures and ones already in the scrap book. The speed and ease of using the Doxie Plus is outstanding. I am sure this product is like everything. The folks who design it and package it, and write the manuals, etc, never actually use it so they have no idea on the simple and stupid mistakes they make.
Bottom line, buy one, you will be glad you did :)
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EDIT 05-19-2015
1) The Doxie does allow the use of SD cards up to 32GB. And it should be formatted in FAT32. They are considering putting a sticker or some other means of letting customers know that 32GB is the max. In my opinion it might be easier and more effective to update the firmware to allow for much larger SD cards since these are the norm, not the exception in 2015.
2) After doing some extensive scanning of not only photos, but documents (ie medical records), it is evident that the saving process designed by Doxie is most ideal. We scanned many photos and documents and the documents we saved as PDF's where the photos were saved as JPG's. Also, the photos were separated by child and year. So I found my original thought on this to be a little misguided.
3) Doxie has stated that the calibration card has to be the original printed card. It is a heavier card stock and printing on a 8x11 sheet of paper would not work. You can contact them about getting a Calibration card if yours is missing.
I take pride in offering detailed and accurate reviews so I wanted to clarify these issues. But nothing changes on the fact that this device is an awesome little scanner and I am sure you will be happy with it.
This scanner has been a lifesaver. I had a huge box of family photos to scan, and using a flatbed scanner was taking forever. The Doxie Go Plus can scan my photos in 1/4 the time (usually far less), and the results are just as good -- and sometimes better -- than my flatbed scanner. The results are excellent, with great resolution and clarity so any photo can be printed on demand with no loss of quality.
If you've been meaning to start scanning and saving family photos or records, get this scanner. You'll be glad you did. It's an excellent value.
Here are some more details from my experience with Doxie Go Plus: I bought this scanner, hoping it would scan clearly and easily. It's exceeded my expectations. I can sit in front of the TV and feed photos and papers through while I watch movies and shows. Even if I feed the photos through unevenly, the scanner handles it well, even correcting minor issues as needed.
The scanner works quietly, is fast to charge, and very easy to clean after every 50 to 100 photos. (To clean out any residue or dust build-up, I just run a small, cloth-covered wedge -- provided with the scanner -- through the feed slot. I don't have to open anything. The process takes one second. Really.)
I went through the entire box of photos -- hundreds of them -- in an afternoon. I had no problem feeding in thin, Polaroid photos as well as late 19th-century photos mounted on cardboard. I even scanned some photos on metal plates, and the results were superb.
The scanned quality was just as good as my flatbed scanner. And, I have the option of scanning at 300 dpi or 600 dpi.
Since using this scanner for that project, I've used it to scan my own drawings, my receipts, and old notes and bits of paper I might need to look at again, later. Everything went through smoothly and the results were consistently good.
Though I've used the scanner a lot in the past month or so, it's still working as well as when it arrived from Amazon. I have absolutely no complaints about it, and can't think of anything negative to say.
This scanner has completely changed how I deal with paper clutter, and it's small enough to throw into a backpack for research trips or business travel. I wish I'd had this years ago. I'm sure I wouldn't have as many storage boxes -- the "I might need this someday" kind -- if I could have scanned everything and let go of the actual paper.
And, since I bought it for family photos (genealogy and general family memories), I'm able to share digital copies with my entire family, easily. No more worries about wonderful photographic images being lost or damaged!
Life changing! I discovered this in a YouTube video about minimalism as a way to get rid of hard copies of pictures in order to save space. I've had boxes of pictures that I've wanted to scan for a while now. I've scanned some of them, but using a flatbed scanner takes forever. This little baby is such a God send. I've been able to whip through my pictures in no time. I think in the day that I've had it, I've scanned more than 1,200 pictures. The scan quality is great! I was considering this or the smaller Fuji scanner, but this was smaller and cheaper so I went this route and I do not regret it. I plan to use it to scan all my receipts and other papers I want to keep, but I don't have to have the physical copy. Paper copies come out great too. I scanned a diploma, and the scan looks just like the physical copy so much that you can see the paper grains.
If you need a small easy convenient scanner, you cannot go wrong here. Very easy to use.
I was initially skeptical about buying a portable scanner for $178, but I've been trying to clean up the clutter in my life and paper is one of them. I also scan all my receipts from every purchase I make and keep track of my spending in a tracker so that I have a clearer understanding of where my money is going each month. I was originally scanning everything with my HP printer, but it was getting to be a real chore. I'd have to sit at my desk and put each paper through the scanner (which was LOUD and slow), then crop it, name it, and save it. It was mind-numbingly boring. I decided to take a chance and purchase the Doxie Go SE and I'm so happy I did!
Now I can sit comfortably at my couch with Hulu or Netflix on and scan away. The scans go through the Doxie quickly and quietly and get sent to an SD card (like the ones we used to put inside digital cameras before smartphones took over), which is included in the package. Perhaps my favorite thing about the Doxie is that it auto-detects the size of what is being scanned. I'm able to go from scanning 8.5x11 papers to the small receipts from gas pumps to a standard sized receipt from Wegmans without having to crop ANY of it. It's one of those things you don't appreciate till you don't have to do it anymore!
Then when I am done scanning, I pop the SD card out, put it in my laptop, and the Doxie software imports the scans. Another one of my favorite things about the Doxie software is that after each image is imported to your computer, it is automatically deleted from the SD card! So I don't have to worry about clearing the SD card myself or having the same files imported the next time I use the scanner.
The Doxie software is pretty easy to use, although I'm pretty good with computers so I'm not able to speak to its ease of use for those who aren't as comfortable with PCs. I use the software to name all the files, crop them if I need to, rotate them if necessary, and "staple" pages together. I have noticed that when stapling a lot of pages together (such as the product manual for my expensive electronic toothbrush) the software can freeze sometimes, but it always unfreezes eventually. It's a very small hiccup in an otherwise incredible product.
You can then choose to save files to your computer as a JPEG or PDF, or upload to a cloud storage service. I've been saving to my PC since I upload my receipts to my tracking software so I can't comment on the process of uploading to the cloud. Another great feature about the Doxie software is that when you save a scan to your computer, a green checkmark shows up on the scan so you know it has been saved and that you can delete it from the Doxie software. (Doing so just deletes it from Doxie, not from your computer.) This is nice so you avoid wasting time on trying to save scans that you've already saved to your PC but forgot about (helpful when I was scanning an entire month's receipts the other night). If you haven't already saved the scan, there's no checkmark and Doxie will warn you that it isn't scanned before you delete it.
Charging time was quick. Doxie comes with a USB cable but no outlet adapter to plug it in to. You can charge it by plugging it into a USB port on your computer, or if you have owned a smartphone at any time, odds are you have a few outlet adapters lying around anyway. You can plug the USB cable into one of those and charge Doxie through a standard outlet.
I would have liked to see the Doxie available in a few colors other than white. Most of my office accessories are black, and it would have been nice to have some fun color options like blue, purple, etc.
I can't believe the longest and most passionate review I've ever written on Amazon is about a portable scanner. That should speak to A) how much I am type A and like organization, and B) how easy to use and high quality this scanner is. I'm so happy I bought this scanner and believe I will be using it for years to come. And when this one dies or becomes totally outdated, I'll keep buying Doxie scanners as long as the company is making them!
This scanner is fantastic! My dad passed away and to prevent "challenges" over possession of > 1500 photos, I bought the Doxie and a 32 GB card. I would sit on the couch and scan till the card was full, then transfer to my PC to optimize later. Scanning is super fast, and software allows scanning of front and notes on the backs then "staple" the two images together! Now someone else has MANY boxes of photos to deal with. Document scanning is perfect. Very happy with my purchase. I recommend Bluetooth version.
Feature Product
- 【Go Paperless】Doxie Go SE delivers smart, simple scanning that you can take anywhere - no computer required. Doxie's everything you want modern scanning to be.
- 【Fast, Easy Scanning】Doxie makes it easy to scan documents at your desk or on the go - simply insert your paper. Scan full-color pages in just 8 seconds at up to 600 dpi.
- 【Tiny + Battery Powered】Doxie is tiny - the size of a rolled up magazine - and portable with a rechargeable battery and included memory. Scan up to 400 pages per charge, store up to 4,000 pages before needing to sync.
- 【Amazing Software and OCR】Included Doxie app syncs scans, sends directly to your favorite apps, and uses the award-winning ABBYY OCR technology to recognize the text in your document to create multi-page searchable PDFs.
- 【Satisfaction Guaranteed】Doxie Customer Care is always here to help you scan, organize, or just provide tips on the best ways to scan your paper. We guarantee you'll love your new Doxie as much as we loved building it, and back our products with a 1-year warranty and the best support in the scanner industry. Contact us anytime - hello@getdoxie.com
Description
Scan anywhere - no computer required
Doxie is a portable scanner that scans paper, photos, and receipts anywhere - no computer required. Just charge it up and turn it on, wherever you are - insert your documents to scan, archive, and share.
Tiny, mobile, and simple
Engineered for ultimate simplicity, Doxie just works - no special drivers needed - turn it on and insert your paper to make a digital copy in seconds. Doxie's tiny - the size of a rolled-up magazine - so when you're done, tuck it in your bag or a drawer. Doxie's always ready and never in your way.
Crisp, clean scans
Doxie delivers crisp, clean copies of your documents in full color at up to 600 dpi. Auto Adjust applies smart cropping, de-skew, and automatic contrast to make every scan look amazing.
Dropbox, OneNote, Evernote, & iCloud Drive ready
Doxie makes it easy to organize and share all your paper on your Mac or PC. Sync scans to Doxie's included software - where you can organize, create searchable multi-page PDFs, save as JPEG/PDF/PNG to your favorite local apps - such as Photoshop or your favorite email client - or send to cloud apps like Dropbox, OneNote, Evernote, & iCloud Drive.
OCR + Searchable PDFs
Doxie integrates award-winning ABBYY OCR technology that recognizes the text in your documents and creates searchable PDFs.
Rechargeable battery
Doxie's rechargeable battery keeps you scanning anywhere - no computer required - with 400 scans per charge.
Included expandable memory
Doxie stores your scans to an included SD card - just like a digital camera. Doxie's included memory stores up to 4,000 scans before needing to sync.
I have to say, I am impressed. I have used it for 1 day (approx 100 scans), and it seems to be everything it was advertised to be.
Right out of the box, this feels like a premium product (as the cost dictated), the packaging, packing and documentation are all top notch. The device itself is solid, the build quality is quite apparent (no pun intended!) just by holding it and upon close inspection.
I followed the quick start guide and scanned a photo in less than 3 minutes from opening the box.
The device accepts the media quite easily and quickly scans it. I tried some mangled receipts from my wallet, and it handled them well. You do have to make sure the front edge of the document is clean, for some really badly mangled receipts, I just folded the top back against itself to create a clean edge, and the scan worked just fine (no jamming). The scan quality was better than that of my Epson XP-410, and certainly faster.
The software setup was easy (an the online documentation is very thorough. The software is basically a tool to pull the scanned documents from the scanner. It provides some nice features to edit the scanned document and allow for some smart tagging (date/time). The OCR functionality worked better than I thought, even on some really faded poor quality receipts. I guess if there was one option missing, it would be the ability to automatically pull the scans from Doxie (or push from Doxie). There is the ability to manually save the scans to cloud services, I tried the Google Drive function, and it worked flawlessly.
WiFi setup was a bit complex if you don't use the default configuration. By default WiFi is configured as a host at 192.168.1.100 as its own network (PC -> Doxie direct, bypassing existing wireless router). So if you have an existing wireless router and it is on the 192.168.1.x subnet, you may have a conflict if another device on your network already has a 192.168.1.100 address. If you follow the instructions, it is possible to add a connection to access it over existing router network, but if you follow the instructions carefully and I recommend that you have your computer connected both via wireless router WiFi and hard wired via Ethernet cable during WIFi setup.
Overall, this is a great product. I will be using it every day, so I will report back on reliability if it becomes an issue.
Pros:
Solid, High quality in every aspect
Quick scanning with very good quality
Simple yet elegant SW interface
Cons:
WiFi Setup (relative to everything else) was a bit complex. But this is a one time thing, and it really was not bad as long as you follow instructions.
Update 4/22/02 - This thing is a tank. Powers thru scans like hot knife through butter. Use it everyday, and works like a charm. One of the best purchases I have made on Amazon.
We recently inherited all the family pictures from both my wife's and my parents, 4 big boxes of them. A lot of memories and family history, and need to share with three kids, nine grandkids, five nieces and all their children. Doxie looked like a good deal, so ordered it and was not disappointed. I've already scanned 1 box of pictures with no problems, and it is as about as easy as you can get short of hiring someone to do it for you.
Pictures have ranged from wallet photos of about 1 by 1.5 inches up to an 8 1/2 by 11 inch, which is pretty much the max. Several larger prints I did have to use my larger flat bed scanner, and one I had to use my iPhone to capture, but that was maybe four or five out of several hundred photos.
I use the Doxie program which is pretty simple and then connect via USB to my WIN 10 laptop to import an upload to One Drive where I share it with my family. The only issue I've found is that when connected to the computer while scanning, I often get an error message that pops up after the scan has completed. Not sure what that's about, but it doesn't effect the scan being saved to the Doxie internal card, and have not lost any scans as a result of it.
I have no problem recommending this to anyone who, like me, has a lot of family pixs to import.
I use this with the MOST RECENT versions of Windows 10, Office and Adobe, because they are all cloud services and updated constantly and YES, as of this writing in 2018 this unit, and it's software, perform flawlessly with all PC and MAC o/s's, great little unit.
Customer service also is wildly responsive with this purchase, bugging you constantly (in a good way) to be sure you're flying this little lear jet well. They've responded with many hints and tips ("will staple work with jpg's in the software to create a postable magazine or photo album on Google Drive? Can I airdrop it? etc. etc.!).
Awesome device, and after trying a dozen others, including the amazing $500 Fuji, this one is my go to unit for sure.
When I bought this I was looking for a document and receipt scanner that was portable, small and lightweight and I definitely made the right choice. The Doxie Go Plus was perfect for our small business needs. It's small, lightweight, and easy to use. We use the Doxie in our business to mostly do taxes by scanning in receipts and other documents. The app for the software is also easy to use and works great. The battery life has been excellent and most of the time stays unplugged in a closet until it's use is needed.
We've only needed to charge it a couple of times even after some heavy use since we purchased it. I didn't order the wifi version since we don't really need the wireless capability, we run an at home web design company so there's always literally a computer at our fingertips and no need to buy the separate card instead of just plugging it in which takes 2 seconds. This would be great for our photography business though if we were still doing print contracts and wanted to scan and send a copy to a client right away out in the field however, so depending on what business you have depends if you need the wifi capability or not.
This little machine really has one job and it does it's one job really well, highly recommended!
March 8, 2017
I always thought that Amazon customer service is the best in the world. Well, there is a new kid on the block that even Amazons CS can learn something from - Apparent!
I left a 3 star review (can read below). I did not think it was a bad review. But Dan from Apparent thought that anything less than 5 stars is fail. He contacted me and suggested that maybe I had a lemon and suggested he ships me another one. Well, I live in Israel and most vendors on Amazon refuse to ship one item and here is a guy who will ship me also a replacement? But that was not all! A week before I managed to drop the scanner on its head and while it continues working, the power socket broke and the electrician who fixed it could not find a proper replacement so he hard wired a cable in place. Never mind, said Dan and nevertheless shipped a new scanner (and no need to ship back the broken one back). But even that is not all! One of the items I was complaining about is that the scanner will not take very old photographs that are printed on a very thick cardboard. So Dan from Apparent suggested that maybe the scanner that is more right for me is the Doxie flip. And shipped both. I must be dreaming…
So this is a revised review for the Doxie Go Plus and later on, there will be a review of Doxie Flip.
The battery – I complained that after 100 scans the battery was out of power. To tell the truth, I did fully charge the battery but that was a few weeks before and while I thought that some power will leak out I believed that it is mostly charged. The new scanner I received scanned 360 pages, and the battery was still going strong (but I was out of power….)
The charger – I complained of a need to haul a charger as it is the old kind of charger, like old cell phone. However, there is no need to haul it around. The USB 2 cable that is supplied with the scanner can charge the scanner just as well. It takes longer (about 4 hours) but the most important thing is, no need to haul around multiple of chargers (if one has more than 360 scans to do) but only one with the ability to switch cables.
The feeder – I complained that it will not feed a page that is not strait as an arrow and will try to twist it around. But even for that there is a solution: adjust the rails to the size of the page and the twisting around of the page is minimized. But there is even a better solution: Apparent shipped me a sleeve for large pages and VOILA – twisting disappeared completely!
I complained that the scanner was finishing the job before the end of the page – I guess the old scanner was really a sick puppy. The new one did not have these problems at all
Very old photographs on thick card board – well, they still won't go thru but sometimes the supplied sleeve will help even with those.
All in all, an excellent scanner and an outstanding customer service
January 11, 2017
I really wanted to like this product but I cannot. The nice features first: it is compact and very nice looking. The scanned images can be stored in the scanner memory or on USB thumb drive or SD card. The box (that you buy separately) fits very snug and together it looks like a product that a lot of thought went into it HOWEVER
1) The battery is good and you can scan a good number of scans but after about 100 scans the battery needed recharging and sure as hell the charger was left at home (why I did not have the charger with me? because the snug nice box does not have a room for it)
2) The charger is the kind that has an EHX socket (like the old phones, laptops and earphones do) So it is another charger that one has to haul around. Why in the world, when manufacturers are moving to micro-USB (so all you need is one charger and one cable for different appliances) did they put this EHX socket.
3) The feeder will not feed a page that is not strait as an arrow. If the page you are trying to scan has a little rip or was earmarked, the scanner will twist it around and the scan will come unusable
4) Many times the scanner decided to end the scan before the end of the page (some pages have few lines on the top and few on the bottom, the scanner will scan the top and then decide the page ended and will stop the scan before it reached the bottom, so I had to input the page twice: ones from the top and once from the bottom)
5) If you are not hauling a computer (or device that can check the scans: tablet or phone with OTG cable) you arrive home to find that at least 20 percent of the scans are not good - would have been really nice to include a little screen on which one could see if the scan was good.
6) Some old pictures (very old pictures were printed on thick paper) will not go thru properly and the scanner will twist them
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