Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner Review

Worth the price for the software alone.
Installation was normal for a Mac.
Scanner rated at 2 sheets/min but my experience is 1 sheet per min.
OCR software is accurate and usable on any image; I photographed a book page with my camera and the software recognized it.
Software will also recognize and translate bar codes.
Manual is nearly useless and the help file needs improvement - making the learning curve unnecessarily steep.
I'd still buy it again.
Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner Feature
- Highly portable USB-connected color scanner ideal for remote projects
- Can convert documents to PDF, Word, Email, Excel, and more
- Included Cardiris software scans business cards into Outlook contacts; Roxio software lets you scan old photos
- Recognizes 124 languages, including several Asian and Middle Eastern
- Measures 1.9-by-9.7-by-1.3 inches (HxWxD); compatible with Macintosh and Windows
Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner Overview
Scan Anywhere. Get Organized! The IRIScan Express is pure portability powered by an extended software suite, so you can get things done!
Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner Specifications
The Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner is a light, small, USB connected multi-purpose color scanning solution that is ideal for your remote scanning needs. This highly portable scanner lets you scan all your paper documents, from receipts to legal size documents, your business cards and even your photos directly into in your computer.
 | The Iris USOA447 IRIScan Express 2 Portable Scanner offers:- Compact size for easy portability.
- Ability to scan paper documents, including receipts, business cards and more.
- Recognition of 124 languages.
- Exporting of data into Outlook, Address Book, ACT!, CSV, and more.
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Advanced Editing and Conversion Features With the IRIScan Express 2, you can scan and convert all your documents to PDF, Word, Email, Excel, etc. With the included extended software suite that features Readiris Pro 11--one of the most powerful OCR programs on the market--you can quickly and accurately scan virtually any document into fully editable and searchable text files. The software also lets you convert PDF to Word, Excel, etc. just as easily.
The applications for IRIScan Express 2 are virtually limitless. After a busy weekend at a conference, you can use the scanner to convert all your business cards into Outlook contacts with the included Cardiris software. This advanced program allows you to export all the data they contain, including the card images, into Outlook, Address Book, Act!, CSV, etc.
With the included Roxio Photo Suite 9 Special Edition, you can even convert a shoe box of photos into shared digital memories, and you can even fix and enhance your photos with the software's powerful editing, effects and touch-up tools.
Worldwide Language Support
The IRIScan Express 2 includes software that recognizes 124 languages. Asian character recognition includes Japanese, Korean, P.R. Chinese (Simplified Chinese) and Taiwan (Traditional Chinese). It can also read and recognize Middle East languages, including Arabic, Farci and Hebrew characters.
Included with the scanner is Promt translation software that even lets you translate between the languages you scan, with 11 language pairs that include English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The IRIScan Express 2 measures 1.9-by-9.7-by-1.3 inches (HxWxD) and is compatible with both Macintosh computers and PCs and is Windows Vista compatible.
What's in the Box
IRIScan Express 2 portable scanner, software suite (Readiris Pro 11, Cardiris 3, Promt, IRIS Desktop Search, and Roxio Photo Suite 9 LE), travel case, and cradle.
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Customer Reviews
software won't even load properly - Marva Mason - Houston, TX
I never even got to try the product because the software would not load properly. I kept getting booted out of the software saying it was incompatible and could cause Windows to fail. After reading other reviews, I didn't even bother to try to contact their Tech Support. Just sending this scanner back and looking for something else.
not impressed! - dcrider -
I am not at all impressed with this item. It is somewhat difficult to install, very difficult to find the product key to make the software work, and technical support does not exist. There is no number to call, you have to submit information for them to call you back, and I have done that 4 times with no luck. The product was atleast working for a while but I always had to click "register later" because I never had a product key to fully register. Now when I plug it into the USB, it is just not a recognized device and doesn't work at all. Find a better product!
poor drivers and software - could do better - Alex Daniels - Dallas TX
I've used this scanner for 3 years for scanning business receipts and reducing paper clutter in my office. Everything gets a scan and then it's filed into the trash bin. That said the scanner has a number of weak points.
Image quality: It's really not up to the task of scanning photos quality-wise, so if you were thinking you could use this for all your scanning needs, you'll be disappointed. I already have a flatbed scanner and if you scan photos you will want one too. It's not a speedy scanner either, but the speed is managable. It can be hard to get smaller items to feed in straight. Also you have to shove the receipt in very quickly or you'll miss the automatic rollers grabbing the paper and have to start over. Repeat this process for every receipt and it starts to wear on you.
Drivers/software: This is the worst part by far. The all the software and drives appear to have been written by 1st year computer science college kids on their summer break. The whole situation is a mess. There are NO 64-bit drivers! That should tell you something about this product - that they haven't bothered to invest the money to develop new drivers at this late stage. Most of their software is unavailable for download so don't lose the CDROM in the packaging. The patches for the software/drivers are inaccessible and cryptic - really have to search hard to even find some exist (try to find a comprehensive list of fixes on their website now - I dare you!). This is the primary reason for giving this product a low score.
There's no easy way to clean scanner. This is quite a design flaw as it's inevitable that the optics will get fouled at some point. But amazingly there's no easy way to clean it without some tricky disassembly of delicate parts. I can't comment on the ease of cleaning of other models (chances are none are great in this area) but it's hard to imagine them being any worse.
I think there are almost certainly other portable scanner products that are superior. I'm not sure why there aren't more sub 0 offerings in this category. You can get better flatbed scanners for half the price and the components are the same. I assume it's a niche market issue.
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