****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
I've never really needed, or so I thought, a personal scanner before. I have long and short term memory loss so I've ended up with stacks and stacks of handwritten notes to help me remember things. I also have pages and pages of handwritten diagrams/notes/tablature, etc. from my weekly guitar lessons.I recently acquired a Google Nexus 7 and at the same time decided to give Evernote a try. I love both products and knew there had to be a better way to use both these tools to become more organized. The amount of clutter, in the way of notes, on my desk is overwhelming and I really wanted a way to reduce that clutter yet still be able to find the information when needed.Enter the Doxie Go! I suspect the target market for this scanner is business users who travel quite a bit and need something portable as it's a a portable, rechargeable scanner. I don't fit that market segment but what it does is help me stay organized. It really lets me get the most benefit from Evernote. Most of what I've read on-line about getting the most out of Evernote is to use it, frequently and don't hold back. Dive into it and really use it. Evernote requires a commitment, one I was afraid to make for fear of making things more difficult rather than less. With the Doxie Go utilizing Evernote to its fullest is much easier. I can organize my stacks of paper into folders to help me find things and the OCR built into the easy to use software provided will only help.Now, for more technical details..... The scans it makes are very good in quality. I was skeptical at first, thinking I'd have to use the 600 DPI mode to get the quality I wanted. Not so, 300 DPI has been just fine so far and if I need higher quality I can have it. When I don't I get to take advantage of the smaller file sizes of the scans. I know this is my perception and I've not compared it to other scanners but, frankly, I don't feel the need to after working with the Doxie. What's important to me is that I capture needed information, can find it when I need to and can read it (especially in the case of my teachers scrawl :) . Most of what I scan is devoid of much color so its not a thing that I pay much attention to. I'm not commenting on the color quality at all, good or bad, as that is not of concern to me. Others that have that experience/need can comment on that.Capturing the notes of my guitar teacher is of great concern and he writes lightly, in pencil so I've not had much success getting a good scan from my multi-purpose printer/scanner/fax machine. Doxie Go excels in this arena and the automatic choices it makes for level of contrast are very good. Of course you can change the suggested setting if you desire but I've found the software makes the best choice for me. Of note is that using greyscale or color, as opposed to black and white as the scan type, results in much higher quality scans for notes done in pencil.The form factor is great as I've not much room on my desk, and I also purchased the A/C adapter for it so that I could still scan even if the battery were dead. It has enough power to simultaneously power the scanner and charge the battery.The ability to send my scans straight to Evernote is a huge bonus. I've got the Eye-Fi SD card on order so I can't comment on what I'm sure is going to be an even better experience than what I've had so far, which again, is great.Customer support is fantastic, I contacted them with a number of questions while the unit was being shipped to me. They replied promptly, and gave me the info I needed. And I didn't feel like I was bothering them, they were genuinely interested in helping me. Apparent, the maker of the Doxie Go, is a company I don't mind giving my money to :)Bottom line: Would I buy this again or shop for another unit? I'd buy it again in a heartbeat! I'm a very satisfied customer...
