The Portable Scanner – It’s a Great Traveling Companion

If you’re on the road a lot for business, it can get frustrating with all the paperwork that quickly adds up. Before you realize it, your briefcase if full of documents, business cards and receipts from your trip. You’re dreading coming home and returning to the office, only to be overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork that needs to processed. It doesn’t have to be that way, however, if you have a portable scanner.

A portable scanner is similar to having a traveling assistant with you at all times. It allows you to organize your mound of paperwork before it becomes a mound by giving you the ability to scan documents, business cards, receipts and just about any other hard copy document any time you like. Simply insert the document through the portable scanner and within seconds you’ll receive a digitally uploaded version on your computer (via the bundled software). That digital version can then be saved to just about any file extension for future retrieval.

Let’s say that you’re on a business trip for a few days. You have three dinner receipts, 4 business cards and 5 new contracts in your briefcase. Instead of waiting to upload these items on your computer’s database when your return to your office, simply scan each one through the portable scanner and within a short time you’ll have everything conveniently uploaded to your laptop. Now, when you arrive at the office on your first day back, you’ll have time to read through your emails and other work that’s waiting for you instead of sifting through your paperwork that’s in your briefcase. And if your bookkeeper requests copies of your receipts the day you come back, all you need to do is email the scanned receipts to her, which would only take a matter of seconds.

Not only is the portable scanner a true timesaver, it also is small enough to be a true portable device. Weighing less than 12 ounces, it can truly be taken just about anywhere on the road by simply placing it in your briefcase. And since it’s no bigger than an oversized stapler, it fits nicely in any compact carrying case. It doesn’t even require its own power source, as it hooks up to your computer with a simple USB cable.

Because of its small size, the portable scanner can easily be taken on business trips.