If you explore the disc, you'll find the document management program NewSoft Presto! PageManager 9, the photo editor Magix Photo Designer 7, and Magix Video Easy SE, which lets you convert scans into a video. It actually takes a touch more work than with most scanners, because you have to find each program on the disc and install it separately, instead of relying on an automatic installation program. Installing the software that comes with the scanner is only a little harder. The scanner itself offers a 128MB internal memory, but you can also plug in an SD card to increase the memory to as much as 32GB. Like other computer-free scanners, including the Editors' Choice Visioneer Mobility ($279.59 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) and the Apparent Doxie One, the S8X1100 scans to memory, where it stores the files so you can copy them to your computer's hard drive later. (You can also plug it into a wall socket, but the three-foot cable it comes with is a little short for that.) The good news is that however confused the design may be, if you need a scanner to take with you on the go, the S8X1100 is still a reasonable choice. On the other hand, it doesn't use batteries, and the best way to power it is to plug it into a USB port, which means you need a computer. On the one hand, it's a portable manual-feed scanner that can scan without a computer. The Pandigital Personal Scanner (S8X1100) ($68.07 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) offers a somewhat self-contradictory design. Included optical character recognition software is highly limited.
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