Doxie Flip - Cordless Flatbed Photo & Notebook Scanner w/Removable Lid (DX70)

Very happy with this scanner. Intended use: I bought this because one of my older relatives recently passed away and her daughter found a number of old photos that I wanted to scan for myself and my mom. Additionally, my son was born in 1997, but I didn't buy my first digital camera until 2004, which meant I had 7 years of baby pictures that needed to be digitized. This scanner is great for this purpose. First Impressions: I got an email from the manufacturer on the day the scanner arrived with a hyperlink if I had any issues. Although I am sure this was automatically generated, I still thought it was a nice touch of customer service that you don't see much of today. When the scanner arrived, I found it to be well packaged. Additionally, I really appreciated that it had everything needed--including batteries, an SD card and a USB SD card reader--to scan and import photos. Use experience: Setup was easy and intuitive. I went from unpacking the box to scanning photos in a matter of a few minutes. The scanner doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but it scans photos very well. You definitely want to use the higher resolution (600 dpi) to scan photos. I found this resolution to be satisfactory. It takes about 20 seconds from scan to scan. Of course, that doesn't include the time required to take the pictures out of albums and put them back. One great thing about this scanner is its portability. I can set it own my lap or the arm of my couch and scan photos while watching television. Although I have a flatbed scanner on my all-in-one, this is a much better solution for scanning photographs. I also played with the "flip" capability of this scanner and found it to work well. Batteries: As other reviewers have noted, this thing eats batteries. I went through the 4 included AA batteries and a replacement set before I broke down and purchased two sets of rechargeable batteries, which I would consider to be essential if you plan on doing a lot of scanning. It would be nice if the scanner had an AC port and optional adapter, but I guess that would be contrary to the portability concept. Software I typically use Abobe Photoshop Elements 13 for importing and editing images. However, I used the Doxie software (a free download) so that I could comment on it. I found it to be intuitive and user friendly. It performs all basic image editing well. I also tried the "stitch" feature by scanning a wall portrait with two passes and stitching the images together. It worked. If I wasn't already a fan of Photoshop Elements, I would have no problem using this software. Overall: I think this is a great product and highly recommend it for photo scanning. You won't be disappointed if you purchase it.

My guess is that many of you have a scanner, and probably can’t figure out how to use it. My experience has always been that scanner software is nearly impossible to setup / configure / use and keep working. For the past many years I’ve had an expensive Fujitsu scanner for being nearly 100% paperless. This thing gobbles up mail, statement and papers and turns them into PDFs (I’ll save this for another post). However, what about all those 4×6 photos you have? Receipts? Or really large items that can’t be easily scanned? Enter Doxie. The scanner with nothing to install, no computer to plug it into, the scanner that’s easy to use and cheap. There are multiple Doxie models: Doxie Flip - flatbed Doxie One - sheet fet, basic model Doxie Go - sheet fed, rechargeable battery, 2x the optical resolution, and built-in memory This post is about the Flip What is it? The Doxie Flip [$149 via Amazon] is a tiny flatbed scanner that doesn’t need a computer. It scans photos, receipts and large items (via a clever removable lid and software that stitches photos) and stores them on an SD card that you can later pop into your computer and download (like a camera). You can also, optionally, add an Ey-Fi card and just have the items wireless upload to your cloud of choice (or PC). Why did you get it? Every few months we get some analog photos that need scanning and recycling (we are all digital). And every few months our daughter brings home some largish piece of artwork or poster that won’t fit in our scanner. So I use Doxie to get them into the PC and archived. I pretty much just scan anything I might feel guilty about throwing away, and then I throw it away. We also have a few hundred old photos that my parents gave me (smaller than 4×6) and so over the past year I have been scanning batches of these photos. You really need a flatbed scanner to do this as any scanner that feeds in photos will get scanned in with lines on it due to the glossy paper + dust creating bands / lines on the photos. Flatbed scanners can be a bit of a nightmare when tethered to a PC so this turns out to be a great way to get all those family memories scanned and archived. So I did some research looking looking for something that was easy to use, didn’t require a PC, and was portable (this thing runs off AA batteries). How has it made your life better? It’s a lot easier to get stuff on the PC and share it. It makes getting those hundreds of analog memories we have easy to get on our PC and archived forever. What I will do sometimes is plop down in front of the TV and scan a few dozen photos in batch, then import them to the PC and recycle the photos. I just keep this little scanner in our kitchen and anyone can just grab it and scan a photo. My Eye-fi card delivers it to my PC where it’s stored on a local RAID hard drive and then backed up by Crashplan to the cloud.

Già felicemente in possesso dello scanner portatile Doxie Go, possiedo il modello Flip da più di 2 anni e non ha mai sbagliato un colpo. E' molto pratico, leggero, di facile utilizzo e con un software a corredo (scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito ufficiale) davvero fra i migliori in circolazione. La confezione, curatissima, offre una comoda penna USB completa di lettore di schede di memoria SD per inserire nei nostri computer le scansioni memorizzate sulla SD card (anch'essa inclusa e capace di tenere in memoria 2000+ scansioni a 300 dpi). Doxie Flip è comodissimo per rapide scansioni di qualità di appunti volanti, note su taccuini, piccoli oggetti o vecchie foto, ma il pratico coperchio removibile lo trasforma in uno strumento ancora più versatile. Funziona con semplici pile di tipo AA (fornite) senz'alcun bisogno di collegarlo ad un computer. Consigliata anche la comoda custodia qui in vendita per riporlo o trasportarlo con più ordine. Davvero un ottimo prodotto!++++

Buen escáner que está diseñado para ser rápido y con resultados de buena calidad, el software compañero (lástima que no haya versión linux) que se puede descargar, agiliza aún más el trabajo. Lo único, por poner inconvenientes, molesto es tener que andar quitando la tarjeta SD para ponerla en el ordenador, una conexión USB vendría muy bien.

Excellent pour scanner un paquet de photos ou les photos qui sont dans un album sans les décoller. Le scan est beaucoup plus simple et rapide qu'avec un scanner d'imprimante.

Birthday present. Great product. Saves having to carry lots of loose, fragile photos or documents or heavy, fragile books from my parents' house to scan at home. The "stitch" software is amazing. For the first time, I have a high resolution scan (rather than a blurry photo) of the family Bible, which I can share with relatives. The Bible is too big & heavy to fit on an ordinary scanner, even if it were not too heavy and fragile to move. It took 8 scans to cover the page, which I uploaded to the software (which has to be downloaded onto your computer), "selected" them - and the software blended them back into a single image for me. I can't see the join. Also tried on a large old photo, with equally impressive results. Accidentally highlighted an extra scan which was not part of the photo, & the software simply told me that it was unable to include that scan! If the edges of the multiple scans don't match exactly, you get a blank area at the edge, which you can then decide whether to crop off or to leave. I already had an old tablet bag which fits the Doxie perfectly - you definitely need a bag, as the rear window (which is just to allow you to see what you're scanning when using the Doxie flipped upside down) has no protection, & the scanner lid doesn't latch closed. The supplied batteries did about 100 scans, then said there was insufficient charge to perform another scan - though my battery tester claimed they were still "fully" charged ... Already have some rechargeable batteries, so will try it with them next. The scanning area is tiny - about the size of a small postcard - but the whole scanner is about the size of a tablet: 10 1/2 inches x 6 1/2 inches x 1 1/4 inches (26cm x 16 cm x 3cm), which makes it very easy to carry round with you. If you need to scan something larger, the "stitch" software will reassemble it for you later. The big green "scan" button is easy to use. Too easy, perhaps - I've taken half a dozen scans of my thumb / the distant ceiling / the table top when moving the Doxie into position for the next scan! There is no facility to delete the scan until you put the SD card into your computer. However, the supplied memory card has plenty of room, so unless you're taking thousands of scans (literally - even at 600 dpi, it will hold almost 2,000 scans) & don't have a spare SD card, then it is not a problem. I've been raving about my new toy. Some people have said dubiously that it is very expensive compared with a "normal" flatbed scanner. It is, but I assume that is at least in part because of the software. And it hardly performs the same function. Portability, plus the ability to produce large scans, are invaluable to me as a family historian! Very pleased with my Doxie Flip so far - and it is considerably cheaper than the more widely advertised rival make. Wish I'd had it years ago! Customer Service is excellent. I filled in a review, not believing it would actually be read, and mentioned one niggle - and they immediately contacted me, and quickly sorted my fairly minor problem, for free! They were so so quick to respond, so friendly and helpful; I can't praise them highly enough. Thank you!

Da ich den Scanner vorwiegend zum Zusammentragen von (alten) Fotos für die Erstellung einer Chronik meines Heimatortes verwenden möchte, habe ich ein handliches, transportables Gerät für unterwegs gesucht. Mein erster Eindruck: Das Doxie Flip ist kinderleicht zu bedienen, auch das Speichern der Scans am PC (Windows Vista) mit der downgeloadeten Software aus dem Internet funktioniert auf Anhieb. Die Qualität der Scans ist ausreichend gut (mit 600 dpi), auch die Farben sind akzeptabel. Das kleine, leichte Gerät ist ideal zum Mitnehmen und durch die eingebauten Batterien ohne jedes Kabel jederzeit einsatzbereit. Auch Fotos, die in einem Album eingeklebt sind, kann man damit problemlos kopieren. Der Scanvorgang kann ohne Aufwärmzeit gestartet werden und geht sehr rasch. Etwas zeitaufwendiger wird es, wenn man größere Fotos (gößer als A6) kopieren will, diese müssen notgedrungen in mehreren Abschnitten eingescannt werden. Die Software am PC fügt die einzelnen Teile aber tadellos wieder zusammen. Die Nachbearbeitung der Scans (drehen um 90° oder in Zehntelgrad-Schritten, zuschneiden, korrigieren von Belichtung und Kontrast etc. ) ist ebenfalls kinderleicht und praxisgerecht. Fazit: Wer einen Scanner für zuhause (am Schreibtisch) braucht, ist mit einem "normalen" Flachbettscanner wahrscheinlich besser bedient, dieser bringt vermutlich noch bessere Qualität um etwa den halben Preis. Wer jedoch, wie ich, einen Scanner zum Mitnehmen sucht, macht mit dem Doxie Flip keinen Fehlgriff. Einen Nachteil muss ich jedoch anmerken: Für das Gerät wurde mir erst auf Anforderung eine Rechnung ausgestellt. Ob diese von der Vertriebsgesellschaft "Apparent Corporation" in den USA augestellte "VAT Invoice" auch Vorsteuerabzugstauglich ist, muss ich erst sehen ...