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

I had a Neat scanner that is no longer compatible with my Macbook Pro. Initially, I was skeptical about the quality of the scanner and after first use, my skepticism went away. The scanner seamlessly works with my Macbook Pro. The scanning quality is quick and provides small pdf file sizes. For two sided documents, just flip the document over and the software allows you combine the scans into one document. It’s small enough to put it in your backpack for travel.

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.

Overall happy with this scanner-- Compact--easy usb attachment/set up to my iMac--great scan resolution too... Took off 1 star because the scanning app is finicky--slow upload onto desktop It may be my computer though--will call Epson to check it out further.

I have zero complaints and the shipping was fast! It was only 100 dollars. I haven't had an issue so far! I'd recommend it. Also, the papers it scans go straight to my mac. So, if you're worried it's not compatible with you're mac don't be! Plus it's portable and light weight.

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.

Wasn't disappointed by this item. Great for easily scanning in photos into your computer / mobile device. Of course also helped clear up a lot of saved documents and important receipts. Always great to have a backup of all the important stuff!

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.