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Canon imageFORMULA P-208 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner Review
The Canon imageFORMULA P-208 Scan-tini personal document scanner’s ultra-compact size and robust features make it ideal for mobile use at home, the office, and anywhere in between. It moves from location to location as easily as it moves paper-based information to Windows and Mac devices, and beyond.
Price : $149.99
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Canon imageFORMULA P-208 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner Feature
- "Plug-and-Scan" capability for immediate scanning without installing drivers or imaging applications
- Scan both sides of a document at the same time, in color or black-and-white
- Scans various items, including receipts, business cards, photos, bills, letters, plastic ID cards or driver licenses, and more
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help convert paper-based documents into digital information that can easily be searched, stored, and shared
- Works in both Windows and Mac environments
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Comparison of the P-208 with the Cannon P-215
By ringo
I already own the Canon imageFORMULA P-215 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner, so I was happy to find this to try out and compare. I found it to be notably lighter and smaller, and a touch faster, than the P-215, but not nearly as ergonomically friendly.
SCANNING: Both scanners are max 8.5" x 14", and color duplex (two-sided). Both performed admirably on full color pictures (color printer quality, not photographs), small architectural line drawings with redline notations, and full pages of text. Both scanners come with onboard software that provides basic plug-and-play (or, rather, plug-and-pushbutton) scanning, including a plugin for Evernote (no drivers needed), and both also have TWAIN drivers to interface with Acrobat etc (the onboard software saves in a variety of file formats, but not at the max resolution of the device). To change between modes, there's a switch on both you have to move from "auto start on" to "auto start off" BEFORE you plug in the device. A little fussy but OK once you're used to it.
SPEED and PAGES: The P-208 averaged seven seconds per page on the above test pages (on my XP system, using USB 2), while the P-215 averaged nine seconds. However, the P-208 can only handle 10 pages at a time, while the P-215 can handle 20. (See below for more about the page feeders). Neither has a function to skip over partially blank or blank pages while scanning, but once scanned the software will delete blank pages.
SIZE: The P-208 is 1.5" x 2" x 12.25", and frankly looks like the power supply for a scanner, not a scanner. The P-215 is notably larger, at 1.5" x 3.75" x 11.25", and also heavier.
USABILITY: It is here that the P-208 loses. Largely because of the page feeder, which is really just a page guide - once unfolded, it consists of a couple of thin rails that stick out horizontally from the front of the scanner about 2.5 inches, to guide the tops of the pages in (where they are then held by a little clip), while the rest of the sheaf sits on whatever surface you're working on. Once scanned, the pages get spit out the back (good luck using this on a tray table). In contrast, the top of the P-215 unfolds to create a real page holder, angled up so that pages are gravity fed. Scanned pages come forward out of the scanner and can be caught. I note that after the first paper jam with the P-208, it repeatedly refused to recognize further attempts to scan, insisting that there was no paper in the scanner. I finally found a little clear plastic tab in front of the clip that had gotten stuck in the down position - poking that with a pen point got it to snap up, which got the scanner working again, but I am truly underwhelmed.
OTHER NOTES: The P-215 comes with two USB cables, one for power and one for data. However, I didn't notice any decrease in speed when just using the data cable, and the documentation says the auxiliary power cable is just to emulate USB3 functionality using USB2. Both scanners have adjustable width page guides, but the P-215 also has a separate small slot to scan business cards and things like ID cards without having to readjust the main slot (great for trade shows).
If you absolutely must have the smallest scanner possible, or really want a mobile scanner that can talk to your iPhone (with the optional wireless adapter and battery) the P-208 is clearly the winner here. For general use, however, I prefer the P-215, and that is what I will be continuing to use.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Convenient plug-and-scan operation for people on the go
By Jill Meyer
Who said big things don't come in little packages? The Canon ImageORMULA P-208 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner is ultra compact, fits easily on the desktop, and is a cinch to use.
After downloading the software, I set it up in just a minute or two. It's as easy as turning it on connecting the scanner to the computer (in my case, an iMac) with the enclosed USB 2.0 hi-speed cable, and double-clicking on the CaptureOnTouch Lite button. You don't need to be a techo-whiz to start using it.
Canon has included two paper guides that rotate into place; they hold documents with a width of 2.0" - 8.5" and a length of 2.8" - 14". In other words, you can use it for receipts, embossed business cards, plastic ID cards or driver licenses, note cards, photographs (great for scanning to post an old photo on FaceBook!), and more.
A few other things I liked: it takes seconds to scan and with one more click, you can scan to different destinations - your own file older, your printer, your email. There's support for iCloud services including Evernote and GoogleDocs. And it's a breeze to save the scans as an image or searchable PDF file.
If your scanning requirements are massive, this is likely not the scanner for you. But if you're looking for a "little scanner that could"...a scanner that's light enough to fit into your laptop case for business traveling...you can't go wrong.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Despite duplex capability, not better than the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100
By N. Roberts
I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M with my iMac. When I decided that I needed a document scanner that was small enough to carry in my backpack, I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100. It doesn't support duplex scanning, but it uses the same unobtrusive ScanSnap Manager software that works so well for my S300M workflow. The bar for an acceptable alternative is high.
The Canon imageFormula P-208 does not meet the bar.
First, the good. The P-208 is physically larger than my S1100 but its build quality feels better. It also supports duplex scanning - the S1100 doesn't, so double-sided documents must be scanned twice. The P-208 is also much quieter while it scans.
Now for the bad. Unfortunately, there's a lot of it.
After opening the input tray, two adjustable arms unfold to guide documents through. The width adjustment is fiddly and the guides aren't good enough to avoid hand-holding the document as it feeds. So much for the ADF.
I downloaded and installed the latest software from the Canon site before connecting the P-208 to my MacBook Air. To use the installed software instead of the on-device "light" version, set the switch on the back of the scanner to "off" - I know it's labeled as if it controlled the scanner's auto feed function, but that's a lie. Once the installed software recognized the scanner, I found it to be unresponsive and it wouldn't save my settings - I chose a default folder for saving scans, yet I was prompted for every scan.
Bad software can be tolerated if the rest of the experience, scan quality in particular, is good enough. To compare the P-208 to the S1100, I set each scanner's software to the highest quality (600dpi for each), then scanned a color document and a black & white (not grayscale) document. Both scanners were slow, but the P-208 was glacial. I could scan a document twice in the S1100 in less time than the P-208 required for one pass. The P-208 produces distinctly fuzzier scans than the S1100, for both color and black & white documents.
In the end, I found the P-208 to be unacceptable for my needs - it's going back immediately. Using it with Windows may yield better results.
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