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The WorkForce ES-50 is a single-sheet portable scanner that runs off USB power from a laptop, so it fits in a bag for scanning receipts, IDs and contracts away from a desk. It captures at 600 dpi and handles sheets up to 8.5 x 72 inches, with single pages in about 5.5 seconds and multi-page jobs at 10 ppm. Bundled Nuance OCR turns scans into searchable PDFs and editable Word or Excel files. It suits mobile workers and light home office use; unlike duplex document scanners it feeds one sheet at a time, so heavy batch work is slower.
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Owners rate it well for portability and easy one-off scanning, and the OCR software is seen as useful. Complaints center on the slow single-sheet feed and the fiddly setup.
The Epson WorkForce ES-50 is a portable sheet-fed document scanner for scanning documents, receipts and ID cards. It scans letter-size sheets and documents up to 8.5 x 72 inches. Its optical resolution is 600 dpi.
A single letter-size page scans in as little as 5.5 seconds. Multi-page jobs run at 10 ppm at 300 dpi with 8.5 x 11 inch paper. In automatic feeding mode, you can feed several sheets in a row, and the scans are combined into one file.
The included Nuance OCR software creates searchable PDFs and editable Word and Excel files. The scanner is powered through its USB cable when connected to a computer. It needs no battery or external power supply.
