In the Trunk: The Tiny Doxie Scanner (plus a giveaway)

Partners | 21 Jul 201021 Jul 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

It’s not often that we talk about a device that could easily have been part of a James Bond flick. It isn’t a watch that turns into a jetpack (still waiting for that). We’re talking about Doxie, which is just about the tiniest document scanner we’ve ever seen.

The Doxie scanner is about the circumference of your wrist. It can be thrown into your bag, purse or, even, back pocket. It gets its power over USB, so no power cables are necessary. Most importantly, it sends your scans directly to Evernote. What could be better?

How it works

After a quick software setup, your Doxie scanner is ready to send scans into Evernote on your desktop.

Launch the Doxie software (Mac and PC compatible)
Choose how you want your document scanned (PDF or image)
The name you give the scan will be the title of your note
Choose Evernote as a destination
Scan your document

Available in the Evernote Trunk

The Doxie Scanner, along with lots of other great Evernote-friendly products, is available in the Evernote Trunk.

Giveaway time! (CLOSED)

We’re giving away five (5) Doxie scanners. This giveaway is open to Evernote users anywhere in the world. The rules are simple:

Leave a comment on this post (in English) telling us how you plan on using this super small scanner together with Evernote
Comments must be posted by 9am PT on Monday July 26th, 2010

Winners will be randomly selected and contacted via email (so make sure to use a valid address). Good luck!

Rehmi Post

How *wouldn’t* I use this? I would take it everywhere to scan in receipts, papers, and clippings. Also:

1. Instead of carrying separate inventor’s lab notebooks for school and work, I would keep an electronic notebook. With Doxie and a few sheets of paper you get an instant timestamped record of your notes as well as a physical copy to file as an exhibit.

2. Scan daily minutiae: Receipts, biz cards, product brochures, etc

3. Scanning a few boxes of statements and invoices that I want to shred

4. Scanning all the articles and papers I want to keep but which take up several piles of desk space.
Steve Su

I need a portable scanner to for both legal purposes and my doctoral research.

At court houses I’m allowed to request and view documents – they’re always on loose-leaf paper, but am charged exorbitant amounts to get copies, often $1-$2/page! With my laptop and a Doxie I can save on courthouse copying, plus file them in Evernote and be ready to email them as soon as I get internet access (some courthouses and state and county records offices are providing wireless access now).

For my own doctoral research, I am often not allowed to remove documents, like microfiche and old manuscripts which cost me to get copies of from the libraries, but Doxie could provide me again with a cheaper and more efficient way to log, save, and reuse these materials for my dissertation.

Thanks, Evernote!
Steve Su
http://www.soullovesound.com Dawn

I would so love one of these. I’ve been using Evernote for a long while now and this would make things even easier to send to my account
Elmwood

I will use it to scan (into Evernote) every piece of paper that I encounter during the course of every day.

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