The Epson WorkForce DS-30 Portable A4 Scanner

Ideal for mobile workers who require document scanning on-the-go as well as service staff that need to conserve desk space or maintain a neat counter appearance, the Epson WorkForce DS-30 scanner weighs only 325 grams, comes in a sleek form factor that can easily fit into most briefcases, and needs only a single USB connection to a notebook or PC to operate.

The Epson DS-30 is able to scan a variety of items typically used by mobile workers ranging from business cards to A4 and letter sized (8.5 x 11 inch) documents. Being a portable scanner, it is designed with an LED light source that has a low power consumption of up to only 500mA to conserve the battery power of its users' notebooks.

Although it is a portable scanner with an incredibly compact form factor, the Epson DS-30 is packed with almost all of the capabilities and software that comes with full-sized Epson scanners to provide a comprehensive document management solution anywhere and at any time. These include: Automatic document size detection and skew correction, text enhancement, color dropout.

The scanner also comes with powerful third-party scanning software that includes Presto! BizCard 5 business card scanner, and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 9 optical character recognition (OCR) software (Microsoft Windows version).

Key Features for the Epson WorkForce DS-30 scanner

Epson ReadyScan Technology - Equipped with ReadyScan LED Technology, the scanners' LED lamp requires no warm up time and is able to perform immediately with minimum energy consumption, making them extremely environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

Auto Area Segmentation - the Auto Area Segmentation feature of the scanner automatically detects text and picture areas on a page and scans text in black-and-white, and pictures in halftone to achieve the best results.

Colour Enhance - Colour Enhance is a smart function to clearly capture specific colours on office documents that would otherwise be non-visible using normal black-and-white scanners. Examples of this useful feature include enhancing signatures on cheques and documents using blue ink, or "Confidential" and "Urgent" stamps that use red ink.

Original:

The word "CONFIDENTIAL" is not visible.

Colour Enhance: Red

The word "CONFIDENTIAL" is clearly visible.

Punch Hole Removal - When activated, this feature automatically detects and removes punch hole marks.

Colour Dropout - Conversely, Colour Dropout removes a single colour (red, green or blue) from documents; such as coloured backgrounds, stamps or text black-and-white scanning.

Original

Colour Dropout: Red:

The "URGENT" stamp is removed

Correct Document Skew - When selected in the options, this feature automatically straightens slanted or misaligned documents in the feeder.

Document Capture Pro Software - The Epson WorkForce DS-30 comes with a user friendly software called "Document Capture Pro" that guides users through steps needed to scan, view, edit and transfer scanned documents from one point to another. The software also helps users to transfer scanned documents to various destinations that include email, a Microsoft Windows network folder, FTP to online storage or web folder, or to cloud services such as Microsoft SharePoint server, Evernote or Google Docs.

Key Specifications

Epson WorkForce DS-30

Scanner type

Portable sheet-fed, A4 colour scanner with LED light source

Maximum scanning resolution

600 x 600

Output resolution

75, 100, 150, 200, 140, 300, 400, 600dpi

Scanning Speed (A4 page)

200 dpi: color - 13 sec / B&W 13 sec

300 dpi: color - 13 sec / B&W 13 sec

600 dpi: color - 45 sec / B&W 15 sec

Document handling

A4, A5, A6, B5, business card, Letter, Legal and custom sizes, A3 and B4 sizes supported by carrier sheet.

Cards supported as defined by ISO 7810

Paper weight supported: 50-130gsm (auto) / 42-200gsm (manual)

Interface

USB 2.0, optional Ethernet network

For more information, visit the Epson media centre at www.epson.co.in/mediacentre

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