Excerpt: The Visioneer Strobe 500's combination of superior performance, excellent image quality, versatile features, and easy operation earned it the top
Visioneer Strobe 500 Review: Desktop and Mobile Scanner is a Mixed Bag
Notebooks.com
3 February 2011
Excerpt: The Visioneer Strobe 500 is a unique scanner. It is both a desktop scanner and a mobile scanner in one. It achieves this double life with a docking station that holds the...
Pros: Versatile, Duplex scanning on the go, Includes international power cables
Cons: Crooked sheet feeding, Poor quality photo scans, No help for Mac users, Mac driver must be registered but how to is not explained, Mac driver is extremely limited, Onl...
Conclusion: The Visioneer Strobe 500 is a personal desktop document scanner complete with an automatic document feeder, but it's also portable if you need it to be.
Pros: Portable. Docking station adds automatic document feeder. Fast text recognition. Digitally enhances hard-to-read originals.
Cons: Both attaching the scanner to and removing the scanner from the docking station is a little tricky.
Excerpt: The Strobe 500 marks the return to the Mac by scanner maker Visioneer after an 11-year absence. The Strobe 500 is a document scanner that features a removable dock that,...
Pros: Removable dock for USB bus-powered portability
Cons: Scans of images contained strange artifacts, Bundled software very limited
Summary: This portable scanner can process two sides of a page at once, and has a removable document feeder.
Pros: Capable of duplexing ; Optional docking station with an autofeeder ; Simple hardware interface ; Software allows users to search inside PDFs ; Mac-compatible;
Cons: Dated design ; Included software has a complicated UI ; Expensive;
Excerpt: The Visioneer Strobe 500's combination of superior performance, excellent image quality, versatile features, and easy operation earned it the top ranking among the five