AOZBZ Portable Scanner, 900DPI USB Handheld Document Scanner for JPG PDF Format with 16GB Micro SD Card TF Card

Excellent for scanning old photos and documents. Easy to use and compact to store. Great quality if you scan carefully

Purchased this hand held "Wand" scanner to reduce the rist of damaging book bindings when I need a copy of a page to work from to prevent the original from damage.I used to use a Fuji camera with a text option, but sadly the electronics failed - so use this in it's place as most of what I need is now in A4 format or smaller.The scanner has an advantage in that it has a choice of PDF or JPEG file format and each in 3 resolutions - so covers most thimgs.The enclosed instruction are minimal (still can't work out how to set the date!) but generally have found it easy to use.Remains to be seen how long lived/reliable it will be.

Worked a few times successfully. A bit tricky to use effectively but gets easier with practice. After a few weeks stopped working. Just get error message whenever it starts up. Not worth it.

This is great to use. It's very easy but you must keep a steady hand as you scan ir it comes out blury.

Useful tool when scanning out of books that are difficult for scan on flat bed scanners also light and portable

It is very difficult to scan with this item. It needs to be switched on three or four times before the green light stays on. Sometimes the green light goes off in the middle of scanning. Either it is faulty or very unreliable.

I needed a small scanner for scanning documents abroad. I don't have access to a flatbed scanner so this seemed perfect. It really is.You need to practice your scanning technique and I use a book or something else with a straight edge to guide be down the scan, but the results are excellent. I would recommend this to anyone.

The handheld scanner is small and convenient enough for portability, and works to an 'okay' standard if all you want to do is scan documents. The resolution is high enough for reading text by eye, but I did not get as far as testing with OCR, which I suspect may be affected by the main issue: it is almost impossible, by hand, to faithfully scan a photo, because a human cannot pass the scanner across a photo without variation to the angle and speed of the pass, consequently people and objects in scanned photos look as if they are reflected in a distorted mirror in a hall of mirrors at a funfair. I tried many times, but could not get an acceptable reproduction of a photo, which argues with the manufacturer's demonstration video in we are shown a user passing the scanner across photos in magazines at intermittant speed - quicly, slowly, even stopping half way through - but nonetheless able, it seemed, to upload a perfect result (as if from a flatbed scanner), a misleading representation. In real use, the hand-held scanner is simply not acceptable as a solution for photo scanning. Furthermore, the setup process for the scanner is problematic because (A) the functionality of the scanner is not as described in the instructions (for example, you are told to use a 'format' button, to format the memory card, but there is no such button, and the small LCD screen does not respond during setup as you are old it will) according to instructions which (B) are in a form of English translated from Chinese which is utter gibberish and absolutely impossible to understand or to follow, so that you have no option but to proceed by trial and error. I bought the hand-held scanner in the hope that I would not need a flatbed scanner but it proved only that there is no alternative to a flatbed scanner. Disappointed and unimpressed.