ClearClick Photo & Document Scanner with 1.45" Preview LCD, 4 GB Memory Card, & OCR Software

2015-01-06 Tue, I received my scanner, good pkg, etc., new, and no damage.This is a short review.This is not a wifi version. I don't know if there is one from ClearClick. But I did read some reviews of the IRIScan which is very similar to this one, but the preview window and settings buttons are on the right side instead of the left. But I read poor reviews of the IRIScan, especially the international customer service, or lack of, etc. And I went with this one instead. And I'm glad I did.prosI immediately began using it right out of the box. The SD card was already in the unit, I added in some (3) rechargeable batteries and began inserting my receipts. I scanned 180 pages/receipts and things before the battery was very low. Actually, to be honest, I pulled the batteries from a new battery pack I found berried in my kitchen drawer. So they may have been low. But, even 180 pages is quiet good, especially if all you will be doing is scanning a couple of receipts and occasional mail every day. Plus, I have several 15 minute battery chargers anyway.Scanning was fast, I think about 8ppm (page per minute) or about 5sec/per and in 300 and 600 DIP, but the 1200 DPI is slightly slower, maybe 5ppm. I am using the PDF and 600 DPI setting for the scans because most OCR software I've used suggest 600 DPI for best results.I have a Neat Receipts scanner kit also, and a few other scanners too, but these are slower and not portable. So, I've tried many. After using many scanners, I've come to realize that portability and speed is what I need, and having the ability to just throw scans into the unit without a computer, boot-up and so on, is a great time saver. Scanning anywhere, kitchen, work, etc., is a good flexibility to have. I can rename the scans later.Scanning some flimsy and also some crinkled paper (receipts and 8.5" and other odd size or thickness paper) can sometimes cause miss-feeds. They were seldom, but once you start using the scanner regularly, you will begin to get a feel for how the scanner will handle your paper and you make accommodations for them. What I do is, when it starts to miss-feed, I quickly pull out the paper, unless it was halfway through, i let it go and just rescan it again. That's one way. But eventually you will figure out what works best for you. This is really not a big deal or issue.To help you keep track of how many scans you make, there is a counter that displays at the top of the view window and it increments each time you scan something.There is also a preview window to preview all the scans you made. You can preview backward and forward.The preview window is bare bones but enough to give you general information about your scans, among other things. I'm sure there are other cordless scanners without a preview window.cons:Taking the SD card out to transfer the scans images/pdf's to the computer was a problem because the connection area where the microSD card enters is too flush against the unit and so you can't grab it with your fingernails. After about 5 minutes of trying that, I gave up and dug around for tweezers and was able to pull the card out, but even that has problems because after a pulls, the card gets nicked or scratched on the edges from grabbing it with the tweezers. I can see that over time from pulling it out in this manner, the tweezers will eat away the at the microSD card's edge, to the point you can't grab it anymore. The design should made it so that the card in spring loaded and pops out or else will need to widen the area around the microSD connection so that you can grab the card with your fingers.TIP: (related to above)However, as I just found out through a what-if scenario with my co-workers, it does in fact have a spring-loading feature. What you have to do is place a good (strong) finger against the back of the microSD card and push it in until you hear a click and it will pop out. But don't use any metal object or it may damage the edge of the card. And be careful when pushing the card in with your finger, because in one demo with my co-workers, I put my finger on it very quickly and released it and it popped right out of the unit and flew onto the floor. I can see someone do this but at the wrong place and loosing the microSD card. So please be careful when you do this. This spring-load function is not documented but should be.One thing I wish for: to save new scan settings as defaults when you power on the scanner. At the moment, it is stuck at JPG and 300 DPI. I want to change that to PDF and 600 DPI.I would definitely recommend this scanner.

Plain & simple.....if you are looking for a good scanner for a good price for any type of picture, this is it. I bought this after a death in the family. I saw a lot of old picture albums & tried to figure out the best way to scan all of them. The printer was too cumbersome, scanning each picture under the glass. Way too slow. After looking at reviews, I thought what the heck & tried this one. I was glad I did. A very nice, easy to work scanner. People have written reviews & said it eats batteries. I have scanned up to 300 pictures of all sizes on the best quality 1200 DPI setting on one set of three AA batteries. The battery life seems okay to me. Sure, you'll have to replace the batteries, but I have found it to be much easier than plugging into an electric plug. I just went to WalMart & bought an inexpensive pack of AAs. If you travel & plan to scan family pictures away from home, definitely carry extra batteries. I have scanned a lot of different types of old pictures...old Instamatic Polaroids, wallet sized pictures, 8 1/2"x11", even some of my dad's old Navy pictures that for some reason can be fatter than the Polaroids. They all have scanned very well. You will have to get used to the pictures sliding through. At times, some have caught & stopped. When that happened, I just pull the picture out & re-do it. The only complaint I would have with this scanner would be the very small window that shows the picture right after you scan it. It can be kind of tough to see how the picture turned out. If I had a question about the picture, I just rescanned it. You can look at it once you transfer it to your folder & delete it then if needed. This scanner is very compact & it would be very easy to carry with you if you ever traveled to visit family. It even comes with a cloth carry case with a drawstring. Just turn it on & scan pictures. It saves on a very small memory card. People have written that it is very hard to get the card out. I really didn't see this as any different than other memory cards. It is spring loaded. Yeah, it's smaller but I had no problems with it. You don't need to. Just plug the USB cord into the scanner & computer & it shows up under your computer file folder. Just highlight what you want to transfer over & click & drag to your desktop. I have clicked & dragged up to just shy of 500 pictures, no problems. One thing to note though.....you should make numerous folders on your laptop, I name them Album 1, Album 2, etc. Whenever you transfer your pictures to a folder & then delete your images on the scanner's memory card, then start over, don't save them to the same folder unless you have already named the pictures. Otherwise, every time you start again, it names the images IMG0001, IMG0002, etc. It will then ask if you want to overwrite IMG0001, etc. This is a very small inconvenience for the overall performance of the scanner.Trust this old school guy....I am a very skeptical person and I read a lot of reviews before I buy anything. You will not be disappointed for the price you pay for this scanner. I am an old school guy who can at times have problems with this digital stuff. I was quite surprised as to how easy it was to take out of the box & set the settings (very easy) and start scanning all of my old family pictures.

I purchased this because I have a trunk full of family photographs, some of them well over 100 years old, and I have long wanted to scan them all to digital form so that I could put the entire collection on flash drives for other members of the family. The thought of trying to do the thousands of pictures on a regular flatbed scanner was so daunting that I've been putting it off for too many years. I took a chance on this scanner because it was rather inexpensive. I'm quite impressed. You can set the quality of the scan at 300 dpi, 600 dpi or 1200 dpi. Even at the higher resolution, the scanner is fairly quick. It works very well on prints from the past 40 or so years, but older photos have to be carefully guided in. Some of the scans came out too dark at the higher resolution, so you can either edit the ones that need it (a very quick edit is all that is needed to brighten the scan) or set the resolution at 600 dpi, which seems to lighten the scans a bit. It runs on batteries and scans to a micro SD chip that comes with the scanner. It goes through batteries fairly quickly, needing new ones after about 400 scans. There is a USB cord to hook it to a computer and software that installs some sort of software on your PC, but there are no instructions as to how to get your scans to show up on your monitor as you work. My advice is to skip the software installation and just use the USB cord to transfer the .jpgs onto your hard drive or flash drive. I especially like that this is completely portable and can be tucked into my handbag when we visit relatives who might have photos I'd like copies of. I can scan them right there in their home without having to beg them to trust me to take the prints home and then bring them back. All in all, I would recommend this scanner for the time of thing that I'm using it for. It scans documents, too, as pdf files if you wish.

Great scanner for photos and documents

More complicated then promised