By Desire Athow
Like so many peripheral categories from the last century, dedicated standalone scanners have been relegated to niche markets thanks to the popularity of multifunction printers (MFP), commonly known as all-in-ones (AIO), as well as the fact that the camera on most smartphones can be converted into ad-hoc scanners via third-party apps.
That accounts for 90% or so of scanning needs but the remaining 10% (converting large stacks of archived documents into digitised versions) still need dedicated physical, document scanners. And this is where the Visioneer Patriot D40 desktop scanner and its competitors like the Brother ImageCenter ADS-3600W fit in.
Physically, it is quite similar to its Brother rival and when not in use, is very compact, with a footprint around the size of an A4 sheet. Deploy its input and output trays fully though and it looks like an albatross with a massive ‘wingspan’ that all allows it to service an impressive array of media.
In this day and age of on-device displays, the Patriot D40 stands out due to its distinctive lack of, shall we say, visual cues. Correction, it has one single-character LCD. Clearly, this scanner was designed with simplicity in mind and is …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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