Doxie Portable Scanner Will Send Your Documents Right To iBooks

Doxie Portable Scanner Will Send Your Documents Right To iBooks

While the iPhone and iPad are incredibly useful devices for the road warrior or mobile worker aiming to live a digital lifestyle unburdened of dead tree flesh, their inability to interface directly with the likes of scanners can make getting a digital copy of a commonly-used document onto your device a little convoluted.

Doxie’s button-cute, 10.9-ounce scanner gets around this quite nicely by interacting with iTunes. Slot in a document, push a button and Doxie will scan the page at 600 dots-per-inch, convert it into a PDF an plug it right into iTunes, ready to be read on any iOS device with the latest version of iBooks.

It’s a neat little road scanner, small enough to fit into any gear bag. You can buy the Doxie now for just $129 directly from the official website.

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  • Mike

    Would be great if it had an iPad/iPhone dock connector interface.

  • Tim Caldwell

    I’ve been eyeing Doxie but am waiting for the price to come down a bit, or some special deal on it. Reviews seem good (not stellar, but good) and the convenience factor and great integration with the Mac OS and popular cloud storage systems is the huge advantage. Just wish I could snag one sub-$100.

  • http://www.getdoxie.com Paul Scandariato

    Tim, waiting for Doxie’s price to get lower than $129 is silly. It’s already absurdly cheap for what you get.


    Paul Scandariato
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    http://www.itsapparent.com

  • Susan

    Yes, this would be great if it were using the dock connector and bypassed a computer directly.

    Even if it just used Bluetooth tethering to the iPhone and uploaded to dropbox, that would be a huge step up.

    I don’t want to have to carry my Mac around any more.