Feb 28, 2014 The VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDSDK-ST470-VP) is both a highly portable wand scanner and, when mounted in its dock, a manual-feed scanner, too. View and Download VuPoint PDS-ST410A-VP user manual online. VuPoint Solutions Scanner User Manual. PDS-ST410A-VP Scanner pdf manual download. Also for: Pds-st415-vps, Pds-st410a-vp-bx3.
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If you need to digitize documents and photos while you're out of the office on company business, the hand-operated Magic Wand Portable Scanner accommodates documents and photos of up to 8.27 inches wide, and produces color scans of JPG or PDF files. At 6.9 oz. with batteries installed and 10.1 inches long by about an inch thick, it's small enough to carry in your briefcase or purse. The unit supports Windows and Mac OS X without having to install drivers, and can scan a letter-sized sheet in three to 12 seconds, depending on the resolution you choose.
1.Install two AA alkaline batteries. The battery door slides down the bottom half of the long dimension of the unit from below the Power/Scan key. VuPoint includes the batteries with the unit.
2.Press and hold the 'Power/Scan' key for two seconds to turn on the scanner. Insert a microSD card into the slot on the side of the scanner above the recessed Format button. Slide the card in metal side up. The card latches when you hear it click in position.
3.Format the memory card if you haven't used it before or want to erase previous scans. Use the tip of a pencil or the end of a paper clip to depress the 'Format' button until the scanner's status display reads 'F.' Press the 'Power/Scan' key above the battery door to start the formatting process. When the SC card indicator in the LCD display stops blinking, your card is ready to use.
4.Set the date and time so your scanned files will show proper time stamps. Press the 'Time Set' button on the side of the unit, immediately above the USB port, with a pencil tip or paper clip. Use the 'JPG/PDF' button next to the Resolution button to select the year, month, date, hour and minute in sequence. Use the 'Power/Scan' key to confirm each entry. When you finish setting the time, press the 'Time Set' button again.
5.Press the 'Resolution' button at the top of the unit to cycle among the scanner's three options, which display on the LCD screen, and choose a resolution. High corresponds to 900 pixels per inch, Medium to 600 and Low to 300.
6.Place your document on a hard, flat surface. Set the scanner at the top edge of the sheet with the LCD screen face up. Position the long dimension of the unit between three-fourths and five-eighths of an inch from the edge of the paper, with the portion of the sheet you want to scan located between the width markers on the scanner.
7.Put one hand on the document so you can hold it in place. Press the 'Power/Scan' key to start the scan. Slide the scanner slowly and evenly down the page with the unit held flat against the paper. When you reach the opposite end of the sheet, press the 'Power/Scan' key again to stop scanning.
8.Plug the supplied USB cable into the port on the side of the scanner with the USB logo on the connector facing up. Connect the other end of the cable to an unused USB port on your computer. The microSD card shows up as a removable disk, just as if you had plugged in a flash drive. To copy scans to your hard drive or view them off the memory card, click on the 'Open Folder to View Files' option on your screen.
Tips
- The Magic Wand Portable Scanner accepts microSD cards up to 32GB in capacity. The scanner ships without a card.
- Calibrate the scanner if it displays the message 'ERR. LED' on the LCD screen. Clean the sensor before you calibrate the unit. Refer to the manual for calibration instructions.
- The scanner shuts itself off in three minutes after you stop using it.
- Store the unit in its supplied pouch to protect the sensor from dirt and dust.
- The Optical Character Recognition software supplied with the Magic Wand Portable Scanner for converting scanned files to text runs only in Windows.
Warning
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- Scan quality depends on how evenly and smoothly you move the scanner down the page. If your hand jerks, your scan becomes distorted.
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$140.00
- ProsScans without a computer. Works as both wand scanner by itself and as a manual-feed scanner with its dock.
- ConsComes without required microSD memory card.
- Bottom LineThe VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDSDK-ST470-VP) is both a highly portable wand scanner and, when mounted in its dock, a manual-feed scanner, too.
Similar in many ways to the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDS-ST450-VP) that it's in the process of replacing, the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand with AutoFeed Dock PDSDK-ST470-VP ($140 list) offers the same dual personality as a both a wand scanner and manual-feed scanner, but delivers one key extra. Thanks to its 1.5-inch color LCD, you can see a thumbnail of each scan and zoom in to check scan quality on the spot. That's enough to make it a lot more useful for scanning originals that you won't be able to rescan easily later if the first scan didn't come out well.
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Being able to preview a thumbnail image is, admittedly, a second-best solution. Much better is being able to send the scan to a smartphone or tablet by Wi-Fi to preview it at a larger size, as you can with the Brother DSmobile 820W manual-feed scanner that I recently reviewed or the Editors' Choice VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand Wi-Fi PDSWF-ST44-VP.
That said, a thumbnail preview is a lot better than nothing. And in combination with the dock that turns this wand scanner into a manual-feed scanner, it makes the PDSDK-ST470-VP one of the better choices for wand scanners.
Basics and Setup
Much like the VuPoint PDS-ST450-VP, the PDSDK-ST470-VP scanner offers the same portability you get with any wand scanner, with both a small size, at 1.1 by 10.5 by 1.5 inches (HWD), and light weight, at seven ounces.
Much like the VuPoint PDS-ST450-VP, the PDSDK-ST470-VP scanner offers the same portability you get with any wand scanner, with both a small size, at 1.1 by 10.5 by 1.5 inches (HWD), and light weight, at seven ounces.
The dock weighs another one pound five ounces, which is enough that you might not want to bring it with you. It also needs a power source, which means you have to connect it by the supplied USB cable to either a computer or the supplied power adaptor, with the adaptor plugged into an outlet. The good news is that even though the weight and need for a power source make the dock less portable than it could be, it earns points for being easy to use. I found I could snap the scanner into place or remove it in less than a second.
In addition to its dock, USB cable, and power block, the scanner comes with a permanently installed rechargeable battery and Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint for optical character recognition (OCR). Unfortunately, it doesn't come with microSD or microSDHC card. That's important to know before you buy the scanner, since you can't scan without one. According to VuPoint Solutions, you can use cards with up to a 32GB capacity.
Setup is easy. Plug in a memory card, charge the battery by connecting to a computer or power outlet, and optionally install FineReader on your computer. When the battery finishes charging, you're ready to scan.
Scanning
The scanner offers slightly different resolution choices depending on whether you're using it by itself or with the dock. As a wand scanner you can set the resolution to 300, 600, or 1,050 pixels per inch (ppi), set the color mode to color or grayscale, and set the file format to JPG, image PDF for A4 size paper, or image PDF for letter-size paper. Snap it into the dock, and the color mode and file format choices remain the same, but the resolution choices change to 300, 600, and 1,200 ppi.
The scanner offers slightly different resolution choices depending on whether you're using it by itself or with the dock. As a wand scanner you can set the resolution to 300, 600, or 1,050 pixels per inch (ppi), set the color mode to color or grayscale, and set the file format to JPG, image PDF for A4 size paper, or image PDF for letter-size paper. Snap it into the dock, and the color mode and file format choices remain the same, but the resolution choices change to 300, 600, and 1,200 ppi.
After choosing your settings, you can scan as a wand scanner by staring with the scanner at the top or side of a page, pressing the scan button, and then sweeping down or across the page. If you're using the dock, you feed the page far enough for the rollers to grab it, and let go. Using the dock, I timed the scan at roughly 11 to 15 seconds, depending on the resolution setting.
After scanning you can see thumbnails of your scans and zoom in on them to check scan quality. The feature is limited however. You can only scroll up and down when you're zoomed in, not right and left. In addition, the aspect ratio on the previews is off, so everything looks relatively longer and thinner than the actual scan. It's easy enough to discount the distortion, but it could lead you to overlooking an actual problem in scan quality.
As with most scanners that scan without a computer, you can move the scan files to your computer either by physically moving the card or by connecting to the computer with a USB cable, letting the computer recognize the card as a USB drive, and copying the files. You also have the option of either connecting the USB cable directly to the scanner or connecting it to the dock, with the scanner mounted in the dock.
Results
Given that Abbyy FineReader is the only program the scanner comes with, there were only two applications I could test the scanner for: optical character recognition (OCR) and document management. It did reasonably well on both, although the lack of an automatic document feeder and duplexing (two-sided scanning), puts limits the maximum possible score in both cases.
Given that Abbyy FineReader is the only program the scanner comes with, there were only two applications I could test the scanner for: optical character recognition (OCR) and document management. It did reasonably well on both, although the lack of an automatic document feeder and duplexing (two-sided scanning), puts limits the maximum possible score in both cases.
For OCR, the combination of the scanner and FineReader did a good job, recognizing text on our Times New Roman test page at 10 points and on our Arial page at 8 points without a mistake at 300 ppi. It also helps that FineReader can turn multiple individual files with one page each into a single, multi-page text file for editing. For document management, similarly, it can turn multiple pages into a single, multi-page searchable PDF file.
I'd like this scanner even more if you could run the dock from batteries, if it had a better preview function, or both. As it is, if you want a portable manual feed scanner that doesn't need a computer and can run on batteries, you should take a look at the Brother DSmobile 820W. And if you don't need the manual feed at all, you should consider the Editors' Choice PDSWF-ST44-VP, with its Wi-Fi capability. If you need both a wand and manual-feed scanner, however, the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDSDK-ST470-VP) can easily fill both slots.
VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDSDK-ST470-VP)
Bottom Line: The VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand With AutoFeed Dock (PDSDK-ST470-VP) is both a highly portable wand scanner and, when mounted in its dock, a manual-feed scanner, too.
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