Doxie is a line of document and photo scanners produced by Scanned, Inc, an American hardware and software company that also produces
IntelliScanner, Barcode Producer, and Easy Barcode Creator. Their scanners were first demonstrated live during the 2010
Consumer Electronics Show
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Las Vegas
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, and have been available on the consumer market since February 2010.
Products
Doxie offers several variants of scanners including the Doxie Pro series, Doxie Go SE series, Doxie Q series, Doxie Flip, and the original Doxie Go.
Software
All Doxie scanners come with included companion software for
Mac
Mac or MAC may refer to:
Common meanings
* Mac (computer), a line of personal computers made by Apple Inc.
* Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
* Mac, a prefix to surnames derived from Gaelic languages
* McIntosh (apple), a Canadi ...
,
Windows
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, and
iOs
Ios, Io or Nio (, ; ; locally Nios, Νιός) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides. It is situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about long an ...
. Scans can be synched to the desktop via USB or SD card, or, for models with built-in Wi-Fi, wirelessly to the desktop or iOs device. Documents can be saved as JPEG, PDF or lossless PNG.
Doxie software can perform automatic adjustments like cropping, rotation and contrast on each scan. Further modifications can be made such as merging documents into a single, multi-page PDF, converting PDFs to text using
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...
, interleaving single-sided scans to create double-sided documents, and, auto-stitching to turn overlapping scans into a single image.
Documents can be saved to the desktop or iOs device, sent to local apps like
Photos
A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an ''image'' or ''picture'') is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and prac ...
,
Mail
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, or
Messages
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, or sent to cloud apps like
Dropbox
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and Client (computing), client software. Dropbox w ...
,
Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and task management, task-management application software, application developed by the Evernote Corporation.
History
Evernote was acquired by the Italian technology company Bending Spoons in November 2022.
Usage
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,
OneNote, and
iCloud Drive
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.
See also
*
Document scanner
An image scanner (often abbreviated to just scanner) is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object and converts it to a digital image. The most common type of scanner used in the home and the office is the flatbe ...
References
External links
* {{official website
Computing input devices