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In any case, IRIS rates the Anywhere 5 at 8 pages per minute (ppm).

With the 149 IRIScan Anywhere 5 WiFi manual sheet-feed document scanner, all you need to take with you is the scanner itself.

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In scans quickly and accurately, but short battery life and the inability to scan directly to its bundled software mean it falls just short of an Editors Choice nod.

With both the Anywhere 5 and RoadWarrior X3 you must feed each page to the scanner manually, one page at a time.

You can also choose connection options (Wi-Fi or USB), as well as view and delete scans, from this control panel, making itfor the most parta self-contained scanning device.

IRIS also makes two versions of the Anywhere 5, WiFi (reviewed here) and a non-WiFi (USB only) version for 20 less.

The Wi-Fi radio allows you to connect to the scanner without a cable, as well as connect to your Windows, Android, or iOS smartphone or tablet via a downloadable app.

That said, no matter whether you connect via the included USB cable (which is required for charging, anyway) or over the air, you cant scan directly to your PC or Mac.

Instead, your computing device downloads your scans from the included 4GB MiniSD card.

Or you can remove the memory card, insert it into the included adaptor, and retrieve your scans via the SD card slot on your PC.

We can think of several scenarios where youd need to get way more than 100 scans in one sitting, such as, say, at a trade show (or scanning birth certificates during Little League signups).

The good news is that in addition to the USB port on your computing device, you can also charge the Anywhere 5 from the same power adaptor you use for your tablet or smartphone, since it uses the same 5V MicroUSB cable.

As part of my tests, when I scanned a few hundred pages with a USB power source connected, I didnt have to stop once to wait for the battery to charge.

Charging, on the other hand, takes about 1.5 hours, which is an improvement over some previous iterations, such as the Anywhere 2 we reviewed several years ago; it took 4 hours to charge.

While setting up the device itself was easy, due primarily to some not-so-clear Getting Started material that comes in the box, I had a little difficulty finding and downloading the so-called bundled software, and it didnt help that the companys website said that included programs were part of the Box content.

For that, IRIS provides its own ReadIRIS Pro, a highly capable optical character recognition (OCR) program.

You also get CardIRIS, a business card archiving application, and IRISCompressor, a utility for converting scans to compressed PDFs.

You can upload your scans to ReadIRIS in several ways, including drag-and-drop, importing them from the MiniSD card while its inside the scanner, or from your computers SD card slot.

When you open ReadIRIS (or CardIRIS) with the memory card in the computer or the scanner, the program sees the most recent scans and prompts you to import one, some, or all of them.

For the most part, this worked quite well, but CardIRIS (and ReadIRIS) has no way of telling document scans from scans of business cards; if you dont keep track of what you scanned in what order, you could (as I did) wind up with business-card scans in your document processing software, and vice versa.

When importing from the memory card while its in the scanner, though, you can scroll through and view your scans on the LCD.

We also test how fast document scanners scan (and subsequently save) to both image and searchable PDF file formats, but since getting the scan images from the memory card to ReadIRIS is also a manual process dependent on human interaction, thats not really feasible here.

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