Doxie Go SE - Portable A4 Document Scanner With Rechargeable Battery And Brilliant Software

I bought this scanner to scan documents to the cloud and my mac and it hasn't disappointed. I don't have an office but its compact enough to keep in a drawer until needed. It rapidly boots, scans quickly and gives good quality images. You can use it as a standalone item, saving scans to the SD card, or connect directly to your computer. The Doxie software is simple but effective and intuitive. From here you can save to your computer or upload directly to your cloud account. You can scan at lower and higher definition. I've been using it a month now on the high definition scan setting, to scan well over 100 pages, and haven't had to recharge it yet. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase. I looked at a number of scanners but I'm glad I chose the Doxie.

I use this scanner when I visit clients and need to take copies of documents. It is quicker than taking a photo if you take into account that you don't need to flatten the page, get the lighting right then line up your shot. and the end result is far better. Transfer of scans to the computer using the intuitive software from Doxie is easy and even the lower resolution scan makes a readable pdf with no problems on my Windows 11 laptop. I have only found 1 small problem: when carrying the scanner in a bag, the SD card can pop out slightly and needs to be re-inserted - no big deal you may think, and you'd be right. However, Doxie kindly supplied me with their purpose made carry case after I had paid for the scanner. It turned out that it is really worth having. I may well buy another scanner for a colleague and would definitely buy the case to go with it. The case has semi-hard sides and provides a good deal of protection. It keeps the scanner and lead together and so far, has solved the problem of the SD card popping out. In essence, this scanner is saving me a lot of time and produces better results than previous methods. It is light-weight and very portable. It is best suited to documents rather than photos though the colour balance is not awful by any means. You can't use it to scan pages of books. If you want to go paperless with documents this is a great tool to help.

What an excellent scanner I needed to collate all my paper work & my wifes businesses paper work to store in the Cloud. Its quick & simple to use great customer service available software a breeze to use, I like the stitch pdf for invoices. I am still doing a lot of work but will be able to reduce the paper work. I would recommend the Doxie scanners plus took out extra 3 year warranty as this little scanner will be doing a lot of work.

I intend to use my Doxie for scanning all business and personal documents, but since I received it I have been catching up on hundreds of old photos that I want to store on my PC. I had searched for a suitable scanning device and luckily I found this perfect answer for what I was planning to do. The Doxie is so easy to use and is very fast; I can get through boxes of prints all while watching TV. The software for organising the scanned images is well thought out and invaluable for dealing with so many pictures.

The good - fast, simple scanning without wires trailing everywhere, no need even to turn on the PC/laptop. Good scan quality for documents (I'd use a flatbed for photos). No button pressing - just present the document and let go once it's started - very fast process. The not so good - simplex not duplex is a real pain, as is not having a document feeder. And why is it soooo slow at importing images from the Doxie's SD card? I scanned about 500 documents this evening and it's taking 5+ seconds to import each one = about 40 minutes! It's like going back to 1990. From my cameras SD card that much data would have taken... 30 seconds? It's no deal breaker, I can just leave it running (while I write this review!). So far, very impressed. Got totally fed up of my (2nd) Scansnap - confusing, unreliable software, having to have wires trailing everywhere, laptop on, press buttons after every single scan... it just drove me crazy and willnow only be used for large (over 10 pages) documents. Well, I have no more to say just yet and the import is still only a third of the way through, very odd. If it takes this long to transfer a few jpgs, how long is it going to take to convert them all to PDF and OCR them?! UPDATE: Day 2.... Preview of scanned images - it would be really handy to be able to see what I'd just scanned to make sure it scanned correctly. I've now done over 800 scans and there have been a few duff images, but only two where a document was messed up. That's a great success rate but even the low failure rate is enough to mean I have to check every single one before converting to pdf. I would definitely have paid the extra £25 for the Wifi one if (?) that gives you a wireless preview after very scan. Software - it's pretty simple/intuitive and a billion light years ahead of the Scansnap's overly-complex nightmare of confusion and often simply refusing to connect. Would I buy another? Yes, 100%.

Useful bit of kit. Can be used on the move. Easy to carry as you do not need to take your PC/Mac with you and can download later. Scans quickly. easy to set up. Customer service team very helpful

Fits in my (large) handbag or laptop bag! Great when moving from place to place for work. Great images and very user friendly software. I've had my Doxie for a few years now and have done over 23,000 scans on it and it's as good as the day I bought it. When I bought it first, I had some problems with it and got in touch with customer services and the help I received was just excellent. I have bought others since and for my staff and everyone is delighted with the product. An excellent mobile scanner.

Bought this for work and I am super happy with the product. We are moving to digital documents and to be honest I don't know if I can do without. I scan hundreds of documents per day and the Doxie is very easy to use and pretty quick to scan the images. I like to OCR option when exporting documents, it makes it easier to work with files (pdf mainly). I hope it will be able to handle heavy scanning but after 3000 images already scanned, I am pretty confident it will last for a loooong while. Thanks Doxie

I was initially skeptical about buying a portable scanner for $178, but I've been trying to clean up the clutter in my life and paper is one of them. I also scan all my receipts from every purchase I make and keep track of my spending in a tracker so that I have a clearer understanding of where my money is going each month. I was originally scanning everything with my HP printer, but it was getting to be a real chore. I'd have to sit at my desk and put each paper through the scanner (which was LOUD and slow), then crop it, name it, and save it. It was mind-numbingly boring. I decided to take a chance and purchase the Doxie Go SE and I'm so happy I did! Now I can sit comfortably at my couch with Hulu or Netflix on and scan away. The scans go through the Doxie quickly and quietly and get sent to an SD card (like the ones we used to put inside digital cameras before smartphones took over), which is included in the package. Perhaps my favorite thing about the Doxie is that it auto-detects the size of what is being scanned. I'm able to go from scanning 8.5x11 papers to the small receipts from gas pumps to a standard sized receipt from Wegmans without having to crop ANY of it. It's one of those things you don't appreciate till you don't have to do it anymore! Then when I am done scanning, I pop the SD card out, put it in my laptop, and the Doxie software imports the scans. Another one of my favorite things about the Doxie software is that after each image is imported to your computer, it is automatically deleted from the SD card! So I don't have to worry about clearing the SD card myself or having the same files imported the next time I use the scanner. The Doxie software is pretty easy to use, although I'm pretty good with computers so I'm not able to speak to its ease of use for those who aren't as comfortable with PCs. I use the software to name all the files, crop them if I need to, rotate them if necessary, and "staple" pages together. I have noticed that when stapling a lot of pages together (such as the product manual for my expensive electronic toothbrush) the software can freeze sometimes, but it always unfreezes eventually. It's a very small hiccup in an otherwise incredible product. You can then choose to save files to your computer as a JPEG or PDF, or upload to a cloud storage service. I've been saving to my PC since I upload my receipts to my tracking software so I can't comment on the process of uploading to the cloud. Another great feature about the Doxie software is that when you save a scan to your computer, a green checkmark shows up on the scan so you know it has been saved and that you can delete it from the Doxie software. (Doing so just deletes it from Doxie, not from your computer.) This is nice so you avoid wasting time on trying to save scans that you've already saved to your PC but forgot about (helpful when I was scanning an entire month's receipts the other night). If you haven't already saved the scan, there's no checkmark and Doxie will warn you that it isn't scanned before you delete it. Charging time was quick. Doxie comes with a USB cable but no outlet adapter to plug it in to. You can charge it by plugging it into a USB port on your computer, or if you have owned a smartphone at any time, odds are you have a few outlet adapters lying around anyway. You can plug the USB cable into one of those and charge Doxie through a standard outlet. I would have liked to see the Doxie available in a few colors other than white. Most of my office accessories are black, and it would have been nice to have some fun color options like blue, purple, etc. I can't believe the longest and most passionate review I've ever written on Amazon is about a portable scanner. That should speak to A) how much I am type A and like organization, and B) how easy to use and high quality this scanner is. I'm so happy I bought this scanner and believe I will be using it for years to come. And when this one dies or becomes totally outdated, I'll keep buying Doxie scanners as long as the company is making them!

Update : it's August 2023 and went to use the Doxie again. I bought it originally in 2019 and last used it maybe 6 months ago. I tired a few days ago and the battery would not charge. I tired several other mini usb cables no luck. Was going to buy a battery but it was out of stock. I emailed customer service (maybe they had a tick) - they said they would ship me a new battery (no charge) and they replied within hours. Then another email from support saying they cannot ship just a battery so they would send me a new unit ! It arrived a few days ago and it works as great as it did the first time. Even sent me a shipping labels for a no cost return. Now that is above and beyond customer service. We have scanned several thousands photos so far and I love the 600 dpi setting. I use the jpg's for electronic slide shows so resolution is important. I love the fact that it is portable and will scan to a SD card. Simple to use and it will scan up to a 8x10 photo. I can lend it out to others for pictures I need for a slide show for me or others. I have only used it for photo's so far and it works as expected. Very fast at 300dpi a little slower at 600 but a much better jpg file . Sometimes pictures don't go in straight , that is use error. The more time you spend doing scans the better you become and a level insert. Only dislike to toggle the power switch the light goes from green to red. As a color challenged male it's difficult for me to confirm the slight change. I dedicated switch would be great. Battery seems to last quite a while, used it for a few hours in a one setting and it lasted. A little bit more than I wanted to spend but now I am glad I did.

Il scanne silencieusement, rapidement et la résolution est de très bonne qualité. Le mode haute résolution est très bien pour les photos papier que l'on veut numériser pour sauvegarde ou/et correction. Le résultat est très bon. L'application qui gère le scanner est très simple à utiliser et offre de multiples choix de format en sortie (jpg, png, pdf, etc.). Le support en ligne du produit est très pratique, on y trouve toutes les informations sur le scanner. Ayant eu l'occasion de l'utiliser, je peux dire que le SAV est sérieux et très réactif. Ce petit scanner qui ne prend pas de place et est très léger peut être emporté partout. Je suis totalement satisfaite de ce produit que je peux recommander sans hésiter.

This product was supplied with a dud battery so could not function..On contact with Doxie they denied warranty and refused to replace the battery. I managed to obtain a replacement battery from an another battery supplier at addition cost to get the scanner operating..Appears that Doxie chooses to ignore consumer rights so please be aware if considering their products.

...der 2. Generation des Doxie. Der Papiereinzug und die Handhabung mit den Blättern wurde stark verbessert, auch etwas gewelltes Papier kann man nun gut einführen. Weiterhin gefällt mir sehr gut, dass man nun auch bei am Mac angeschlossenem Doxie scannen kann. Die bekannte Doxie Software und die OCR Funktion sind ein Traum zum bearbeiten und exportieren der Scans - ich hatte noch nie so eine einfache und intuitive Software... Auch habe ich noch nie so einen herausragenden Kundenservice erlebt wie hier - man wird per Mail angeschrieben und gefragt, ob alles in Ordnung sei und wie die Erfahrungen mit dem Scanner sind, aber ohne dass der Kundenservice aufdringlich wirkt. Man hat als Kunde hier das Gefühl, dass man gehört wird, wenn es mal Probleme gibt und Verbesserungsvorschläge fließen in die Entwicklung mit ein. Bei der ersten Generation, kam es ab und an vor, dass der Scanner Seiten verschluckt (nicht gescannt) hat, wenn man schnell nacheinander mehrseitige Dokumente gescannt hat. Das war ärgerlich, da es keine Vorschau gibt und man das erst beim Einlesen der Scans in die Doxie Software gemerkt hat. Als ich das dem Service mitgeteilt habe, bot dieser mir sofort von sich aus an, den Scanner kostenlos umzutauschen und man hat mir sogar als Entschädigung ein Transport-Etui zum Tauschgerät dazu gegeben. Dieses Problem wurde hier bei der 2. Generation vollständig gelöst, denn mit Doxie Go SE hatte ich nie wieder verschluckte Seiten, die nicht gescannt wurden...