A couple of months ago, a friend requested my advice regarding digitizing works. They were requested to digitize some old contracts documents and photographs. The materials are in the Archive Office and they are not allowed to bring out the materials out from the Archive Office… and they have to do their work in a controlled room… a very small room.

I suggested to them to bring a set of computer and scanner… preferably a notebook and a portable scanner which can scan both side of the document in one pass which we called duplex scanner. They have 3 notebooks, but unfortunately they do not have portable scanner or sophisticated duplex scanner. They only have one big flat-bed scanner… about 610mm (length) x 458mm (width) x 102mm

Since the room is very small with only one table, the scanner really eat-up most of their working space… they can’t put the materials on the floor… you can’t do that to an archive materials… else it will get contaminated.

So, they have to work very careful in a cramp room… although there are 3 of them, only 2 will be able to do their job inside the room… with one big scanner!

After almost two months, their work is not even half-way done. Now I’m advising them to get this portable duplex scanner Scanshell 3000DN. It is a high-speed portable duplex scanner which offers simultaneous high image quality for both sides of the scanned document in one pass.

The Scanshell 3000DN is only 300mm (Length) x 50mm (width) x 45mm (Height)… a super small foot print for a duplex scanner… and very light too at 475grams. You do not require a power adapter for this duplex scanner; it connects one USB cable to your notebook for the power and also for the data transmission. It scanned A4 paper at 6ppm (pages per minute) in B/W and 3ppm in color. The resolution is very high at 600dpi (dot per inch) although this scanner is only about 10% of the size of a normal flat-bed duplex scanner.

This scanner is not only good for projects like this, but it will be good for anyone when they are on the move or in a very tight space… it’s a super portable duplex scanner.