Doxie is a line of document and photo scanners produced by Scanned, Inc, an American hardware and software company that also produces
IntelliScanner, Barcode Producer, and Easy Barcode Creator. Their scanners were first demonstrated live during the 2010
Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas
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, and have been available on the consumer market since February of 2010.
Products
Doxie offers several variants of scanners including the Doxie Pro series, Doxie Go SE series, Doxie Q series, Doxie Flip, and the original Doxie Go.
Software
All Doxie scanners come with included companion software for
Mac,
Windows
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, and
iOs
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. Scans can be synched to the desktop via USB or SD card, or, for models with built-in Wi-Fi, wirelessly to the desktop or iOs device. Documents can be saved as JPEG, PDF or lossless PNG.
Doxie software can perform automatic adjustments like cropping, rotation and contrast on each scan. Further modifications can be made such as merging documents into a single, multi-page PDF, converting PDFs to text using
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...
, interleaving single-sided scans to create double-sided documents, and, auto-stitching to turn overlapping scans into a single image.
Documents can be saved to the desktop or iOs device, sent to local apps like
Photos,
Mail
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, or
Messages, or sent to cloud apps like
Dropbox
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 ...
,
Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and task management application. It is developed by the Evernote Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California. It is intended for archiving and creating notes in which photos, audio and saved web content can ...
,
OneNote, and
iCloud Drive
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iCloud enables users to sync their data to the cloud, inclu ...
.
See also
*
Document scanner
An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop ''flatbed scanner'' ...
References
External links
* {{official website
Computing input devices
