Epson - ES-50 Mobile Color Sheetfed Document Scanner - Black

Given I travel for business, I occasionally need to record business travel related expenses and provide them for expense reporting purposes. On my last project, I used the Epson ES-50 to scan in and submit taxi receipts and other travel related receipts. The Epson ES-50 was easy to setup via a simple software download. The next simple step was to connect the Epson ES-50 via USB cable. Once connected the Epson scanner was easy to customize as far as DPI scan settings and other basic options. The scan quality was sufficiently detailed, including color scanning, and was completed in an expeditious manner. You simply initiate scanning by pressing the scan button on the top right of the Epson scanner. As a test, I scanned in a variety of documents to test the scanner's ability to handle and properly scan documents of various thickness, texture, etc. The thin flimsy grocery store and restaurant receipts scanned perfectly with no "feeding" issues. As a test, I scanned in various thick stock paper flyers I received in the snail mail. Once again the Epson ES-50 scanned in the flyers with no "feeding" issues; capturing the document image properly. Overall, the Epson ES-50 is a perfect portable scanner for light scanning use. The Epson ES-50's need for only USB power to operate is immensely convenient. In addition, the Epson ES-50's small size, as shown on the picture, makes it convenient to transport and situate within a work space.

Epson makes some great & innovative products. This is no exception Epson has introduced a new updated model of their portable document scanners. I currently own the Epson ES-300W which was an already great product to begin with. The new ES-50 is in update to the the ES-300 minus the wireless capabilities. This new document scanner is incredibly small and lightweight. I was shocked at just how compact it really is. The ES-50 is very user friendly you just install the software from the EPSON website and power on the device it really is that simple. It is Mac and Windows compatible. I won both a Windows machine & a Mac as well. It was easy to use on both operating systems. Scanning is effortless and takes about 3-5 seconds to scan and for the document to appear on your desktop or laptop. The Espon smart scan software is simple and intuitive to use. I know I have stated numerous time that this scanner is compact. It can fit in any book bag with ease, or even a briefcase if you are a business user.Portability is key with this product. The only portable scanner better than this is the sibling model the ES-60W which is wireless. If you are looking for an upgrade from the previous generation of Epson scanners you can't go wrong with the ES-50 it is small, compact and easy to use. The software is easy to install and use as well. If you need a scanner this is the one to get.

The Epson WorkForce ES-50 is an excellent portable, lightweight, and fast document scanner. The scanner has only one start button, a ready indicator light, and an automatic feeding mode light. There is one USB port for connecting to the computer. Set-up was fast and easy. All you need to do is plug in the scanner with the included micro USB cable and go to the link provided in the quick start guide to download the drivers and software for the scanner. I really like the Epson SmartScan software which makes scanning very easy. You don’t have to start up the software to begin scanning. Instead, it will automatically start up whenever you insert a document into the scanner’s input slot and press the start button. Once an image is scanned, you can view the image and save it off to your hard drive. There are customized actions you can perform such as sending it to Google Drive or Dropbox (no option for OneDrive), or Evernote or to Word/Excel/Powerpoint. I didn’t see any ability to add user defined custom actions. SmartScan also allows you to customize the format of the filename (with an optional prefix, optional date formats, and an optional postfix counter) the scan is saved with. You can even have SmartScan perform automatic file naming that attempts to generate a good filename by using OCR to detect the subject and date from the scanned image. It actually did a pretty good job when scanning my receipts from Best Buy (but it got the date wrong -- it was using the last return date instead of the purchase date). Scanner settings include the ability to set resolution (75 dpi to 1200 dpi) and image type (Auto, Color, Grayscale, Black and White). It can also correct document skew, rotate image (Auto, 0, 90, 180, 270), remove background, perform text enhancement (standard, high), dropout and color enhance and also adjust brightness, contrast, and gamma for the output. Finally, it has the ability to use an unsharp mask, edge fill and remove punch holes from the image. I didn’t get to try most of these settings since I mostly used the default settings for my testing. However, when scanning some old black and white photos for my father, I had to manually set it to grayscale as the auto image mode tried to scan the photos using black and white mode. During my time with the scanner, I found it to be reliable and fast (I was able to scan about 133 documents consisting of 47 receipts and and 86 black and white photos in a little over 1 hour) and the output quality was excellent. It was able to easily handle long receipts with ease. My other portable scanner would stop scanning and act like there was a jam or something when scanning long receipts. The Epson WorkForce ES-50 never had any trouble with super long receipts. The only drawback that I experienced was the feeding mechanism tended to have a little bit more trouble keeping the document straight during the scan compared to my other portable scanner. But this wasn’t a real problem because the document skewing would auto correct any problems and the final image looked okay. I can recommend this scanner for anyone needing a portable scanner to quickly and reliably scan receipts, photographs or other documents. It makes any scanning jobs fast and fun.

I like how compact and space saving the scanner is. When I am done using it, I unplug the cord from my computer and place the scanner in a desk drawer. I have been using this scanner to scan in homeschool documents that I send to a home study school for grading. All the documents that I scan are written in pencil. The scanner will pick up some pencil marks, but not all making it frustrating. Sometimes I have to rescan, but it ends up looking worse than before.

I travel quite a bit for my job, which means I have expenses and receipts to deal with. Additionally, we like keeping track of spending, and bills at home. I already have a home office printer/scanner with a document feeder on it, as well as a photo quality flatbed scanner. That said, this little scanner has it's own place in my arsenal, and should be quite useful. In the box is a pair of quickstart guides to get you going in several languages, a micro-USB cable to get connected, a calibration sheet, and the scanner. Getting setup with the guide takes about 5-10 minutes, and that includes installation of the drivers and software. Setup also includes a test scan, and after that you are good to go. Scanning is quick and quiet, with the only real noise being paper moving through and over the rollers. Though it's fast, it produces a decent quality image. I wouldn't use this for scanning in photos or high DPI images, since it doesn't support high DPI, but for receipts, bills, and other similar documents, it does a fine job. The footprint while doing so is also small, as the length is just shy of the length of a sheet of letter paper. Depth and thickness are also low, in the 2-2.5" range, so it doesn't take up much space. When operating, you just need to keep the area behind it clear, as the sheet feeds from the front through the back. The OCR software works well, but does take some time to let run, especially when compared to a simple scan. However, I found it accurate and useful for several documents I scanned in. I also like that I can plug it in, insert a document or receipt, and press the button to scan on the scanner itself, and it will launch the software and scan. I have had other portable scanners that required me to launch the software first, and that gets annoying after some time. It's lighter than a typical laptop battery, and about the same as a laptop charger. They manage to keep it so light by building the body out of plastic, which is great, but does create the single concern I have about it: body flex. Because I travel, something like this gets tossed into my laptop bag. It has it's own "space" in the bag, but it's not surrounded by a rigid shell or protector. Once all my items are in the bag, there is a good chance something could press on this. When you squeeze the top to bottom in the middle, it flexes quite a bit, and that has me question the longevity of it. It might be that it flexes just enough to give and not be brittle, instead of flexing just enough to break. I haven't had any damage or broken parts, yet, but it is something worth noting as a concern. Overall, however, I like it. I wish I got the model with the WiFi built in, as that would be a great option for getting scans wirelessly to my phone or laptop when I am on business trips, but I also don't know how much I would use that feature. Because of that, I think this is a great portable scanner for my needs.

I just received my scanner about a week ago. I haven't used this kind of scanner before. I have only used the big office kind that are a little more confusing. Once I received my scanner in the mail it only took a few minutes to set up and start scanning. The packaging was great and the scanner was secure during delivery. It came with all the information I needed and the powering cord. I hooked the scanner to my laptop first. It was super easy and only took a few minutes to start scanning. I first tried scanning normal paper. It worked perfect. Second I tried out pictures. I was very surprised on how great it worked. The pictures saved to my laptop so nicely. The third thing I wanted to check was scanning license and credit cards. To my surprise it scanned them as good as the rest. This scanner is going to make my job so much easier. It's small and portable. I will be able to put it right in my work bag and take it to the office with me. It's so slim and won't take up any room at all. I'm very happy with this scanner. I already told co-workers about it.This is a review for the Epson WorkForce ES-50 Portable Document Scanner that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.”

The whole process from start to finish was very user friendly; you just connect it to the computer & go to the website listed in the user guide to download & install the drivers & utility package. From opening the box to actually using the scanner was about 5 minutes, the longest part was installing the software but that's just a waiting game. In the box was a cleaning sheet & calibration sheet which will be so useful in the future once I put more miles on it. I love how many options you have for what to do with a scan once it's complete, it can be saved to your computer like anything else or you can attach it to an email, print, save to places like Word, or send it to Dropbox & other locations. Navigating through the settings did take some getting used to as it would with any new device but once I took a few minutes to explore what everything did, I was scanning work documents, photos & miscellaneous notes in no time. You can change the resolution anywhere from 75 to 1200 dpi. The higher the resolution, the faster it took to load after scanning something in but surprisingly no matter what resolution, it seemed to scan equally fast. My favorite part about the scanner is not having to deal with the hassle of cropping an image after you scan it, if you scan something like a business card, it crops it automatically! I know that's been a for a while now but the quality is better than it used to be, it's more accurate. Scanners have come a longer way since they first came out, this one is very compact & sleek & is so lightweight an 8 ounce bottle of water is probably heavier. This is a review for the Epson WorkForce ES-50 Portable Document Scanner that I received free of charge to do a beta test and review.

I was one of my wish list and i'm happy to have it now i'm able to do alot of things i was not able to do. I like the función it has and it fast..This is a review for the Epson work force Es-50 Portable Document Scanner that i received Free of charge to do a beta Test and review.