Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

This is a great little scanner! It is compact and fast! The scan quality is the only reason for 4 stars vs. 5. It's still a good quality scanned image, but for the price point, it is expected.

This scanner is made to travel or for small work desk. Easy to connect, easy to use, light and small that fits in my arm. It’s perfect!

1/28/24. This scanner is a life saver - very easy to install and use. Excellent for preserving important documents. Garza, again, OUTSTANDING customer service!

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.

This is a really cool scanner. It’s great to keep in my pick up truck to scan documents as I get them makes my paperwork a lot easier, especially for the money. It’s been through Hackett and does a great job.

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 really wanted to love this little scanner. I needed something compact that didn't take up much space. I have a ton of pictures that I need to scan and wanted to do it at work on my down time. So it needed to be small and would fit in a backpack. The first 4 or 5 pictures scanned fine, then vertical streaks starting to show up. Nothing I did would get rid of the streaks. I ran it through the cleaning cycle, reset all settings, increased DPI. nothing worked. Will need to return it after just one day. :( If you're just scanning documents you'll love it.

This is such a great workhorse and so easy to use! It’s fairly small and the width of a sheet of paper. I keep it on my counter and plug it into my laptop when I need to save and scan receipts. I highly recommend this! Can’t believe I waited so long to get it. So much easier than the traditional printer/scanner.

It worked immediately once I got the software installed. This beats having to take my papers to the other room to scan them on the scanner/printer. I have a lot of paper artifacts that I want to keep but don't want cluttering my office, and this is going to be a very good solution.

We are full-timers living in a 42' motorcoach where space is premium. This ES-50 has allowed us to have a cool piece of tech that can enable us to scan live documents to support our mobile lifestyle. What a great and relevant SKU to carry at Best Buy.

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.

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!

I loved the scanner, it has simplified our work tremendously, helping us save paper, and it's super easy to use.

I also purchased the ES-60W after for home wireless network. Too early for a good review this # of stars will rise. Dropped cit on softer carpeted surface no damage highly 5 star rating for the 50 while the scan performance wirelessly a 5 also picture scanned shot though!! Perfect copy this 60 is looking WOW! I also dropped it. I am damaged drop everything bur the Star rating rises to 5. I am headed to a 5 STAR rating. This is only one month and I am a scanning expert.

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.

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.

Since this was my first time setting up a scanner, I was a little nervous. The directions were extremely clear and walked me through each step. Did I mention there were only 3 simple steps to follow!!!! Installing the software was quick and I had no problems getting this scanner ready to go. I love the compact size - no more taking up room with a large printer/scanner combo that you don't need. Insert first test page.............success!!!!! I work from home a lot of the time and having this is a game changer for me. Scanning is quick and results in a clear image. The scanner can take a variety of paper sizes, including receipts. Without any hesitation I would highly recommend this for your office and/or personal scanning needs.

The Epson Workforce ES-50 Scanner is so cool and convenient. I honesty can’t believe how small and lightweight it is. I also love that I can wirelessly scan all my important documents very quickly and efficiently. The scanner comes with a USB cord that makes it easy to charge up. Once the scanner is charged fully it’s ready to go. I downloaded the software instructed in the easy to read instructions and began scanning my documents effortlessly. What I really like about the scanner is that you can keep feeding it multiple documents and it will keep taking them and scanning them. I’ve saved a lot of time and space with this scanner. I have an IOS device so I downloaded the Epson DocumentScan app on my phone and scanned documents from there as well. Usually it takes a minute for a scanner to scan multiple documents, but this Epson scanner is super quick, it takes the documents and scans them in a matter of seconds. Concerning the software, I was very pleased with how easy it was to download and use. Now I have several important documents scanned and saved into my computer and it was all very effortless and easily done with the Epson WorkForce ES-50 scanner. 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 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.