Epson Workforce ES-60W Wireless Ultra Portable A4 Document Scanner with Li-ion battery (300 page) and USB 3.0, 200-1200dpi, 4 seconds per page

If you have to do ANY accounting with paper receipts, BUY THIS SCANNER. I was honestly contemplating shutting the company down would be less hassle than doing any more scanning of paper receipts, trying to get them to flatten on the table and hold the camera in the right way so the light makes them visible, whilst in that time they scrunch back up. This thing is GENIUS. The software is Epson so if you're over 30 you know exactly what I mean (it's like 00's software and not the most intuitive) but once you get going, it's very easy. Can be used with iPhone or on your Mac/Windows (just Google ES-60W drivers and download – this thing comes with a CD-ROM LOL). The auto-feed meant I could scan receipts in one sitting doing around 100 in 15-20 mins. The desktop software is the best and I just kept scanning and scanning, with it then outputting each receipt as an individual image and plop into Free Agent (or whatever accounting software you us with receipt matching). Tip: charge it fully before using. Even plugged in it doesn't seem to love not being fully charged. With the Epson software, it auto-crops, auto contrasts and rotates the images so they're more or less perfect. The time this has saved is just beyond anything and receipts are way easier to read now than low contrast photos. Only criticism other than slightly crunchy software is that in 2025/2026 it charges and connecting using a Micro USB cable; but this is fairly typical with a lot of Japanese tech.

Picked this up for £85 on sale having decided a scanner with paper feed was much preferable to a 'wand' type which I think was the right decision. Software comes on CD but better to d/l more up-to-date from Epson, including the usual firmware update for the scanner. Scan time is just a few seconds and you can adjust resolution, set to B&W only etc. which is what I did for scanning letters. The OCR works well to create searchable PDFs, however the Epson s/w shows its age with an interface that is quite basic. Slightly annoying that the scanner uses micro-USB connection, I'd have preferred a USB-C but there's a lead in the box. I found that the scanner works OK connected to a USB hub to reduce plugging in/out to laptop. I think this would be ideal for a home user or very light office use to save having to file paperwork.

I bought this after I saw that a colleague used one: I travel frequently and need to scan lots of documents. Previously I packed a lightweight flatbed scanner, but this one is so much better. It's well built, but compact and light. Installed really easily, scans fast and loads straight into an editing program. And the editing program is so simple to use - (here's your scan - do you want to add pages - where do you want to send them?) just the controls you need and seems to default immediately to the best options. Scans by default to pdf. Haven't looked for or tried other formats. Highly recommended.

Stopped working after six months.

Some have said it's scan time is slow, not the case, a few seconds per page. I had a little trouble installing the software, but once rebooted it worked a treat. There are options to save as a PDF with password protection and once setup, you can plug this in, press a button and then continue scanning by inserting new pages. Once you're done, you press the button again and then the software asks you where to save your document. Simple, great quality, totally portable and excellent. Worth getting a case for it but it's superb!

After ample confusion of choice and research, I finally decide to buy this rather than buy a Canon DR-C225W II, or any another Canon and Brother scanner, because: * The Canon DR-C225W II looks to still use the same flawed sheet-feeding mechanics and sensors as the Canon DR-C225W, including the same overpriced rollers! Possibly hiding designed-in obsolesce too. * This document scanner has USB 3, which later proved it's worth, and WiFi, also allowing use over network, a decent sized touch screen and far more powerful functionality, including a contacts directory and direct send to file shares, email, cloud, etc. * Epson seems to provide Linux support for most/ALL of their scanners, unlike the pathetically limited Linux support of Canon and Brother, contrary to some web articles about document scanners for Linux! * Other makes and models were far too expensive for equivalent functionality, with Ethernet support being shockingly more expensive, than the price of a decent USB 3 Gigabit Ethernet adaptor, maybe only 100Mbit too! * This only cost me £279.99 via the recent Prime day sale, bargain. Pros: * It is small enough that it does take up much desk space and maybe portable in a large laptop backpack. * The paper exit bends the paper far less that the U travel to the Canon DR-C225W exit sheet slot, is simpler, and has a higher capacity optional pull-out tray. * Hopefully the, initially confusing, pull off-the-back (queue-type) sheet feeding, will ensure more reliable feeding, and top-first (upside-down sheet) scanning, will ensure faster throughput, with less need for feeder maintenance, than the pull-off the front (stack-type) sheet feeding and bottom-first scanning, with spurious feed failures, of the Canon DR-C225W and probably C225W II too. * Epson provide a downloadable "Epson Scan 2" desktop GUI with a "epsonsane2" SANE backend for Linux, with useful options, which works for USB 3, and source code separately; the latter probably to support other Linux distributions and CPUs. They even support Linux for ARM 32-bit and 64-bit, so it's probably usable by a Raspberry Pi with enough RAM. * The "epsonsane2" backend was faster and more functional than the SANE provided driver, for both USB and network devices. * The USB 3 connection really shows its value for 1200DPI A4 scans. * Network seems good enough up to 600DPI A4 scans, which should be good enough for more uses. * For Linus, the github.com/cyanfish/naps2 deb SANE frontend worked great with it for both USB and network, (epsonsane2) devices, generating a searchable (OCR'd) PDF from a multi-page duplex document, and is probably a better SANE frontend than the "Epson Scan 2" GUI for most uses. Cons: * "Epson Scan 2" for Linux failed to scan anything via network device, despite triggering the scanner to show the "Load originals." screen, whereas other SANE frontends worked fine, hmm! It also lacks a lot of the other functionality of the Windows bundle, and does not appear to support auto-generation unique filenames for saved files, which may cause accidental overwrite of prior saved files, and does not allow page view/edit before pages saving. * I can't say I was impressed by the Windows utils for it either; so maybe NAPS2 would also be better for it on Windows too. * This document scanner doesn't appear to support 5G WiFi, because my router listed it as a 2.4G connected Wi-Fi device; and when I test scanned A4 pages at 1200DPI using NAP2, it was a noticeably slower transferring the page images than over USB 3! 1 star dropped for not supporting 5G WIFI. Notes: * WPS WiFi setup didn't want to work for me (maybe an ISP router issue), but WiFi was easy to manually setup using the touchscreen. I'm wary of WPS, anyway, because it's a security risk, even for only 2 minutes. * Beware of brscan4 (official Brother SANE backend) for Linux, I had it installed, and mine had a broken libsane-brother4.so.1 causing a seg. fault, causing puzzling exits of multiple SANE frontends; so I had to uninstall it! This is one reason why decent and maintained Linux support is so important, also why the SANE maintainers need to cut the lame "proprietary" excuses, and trap and log device-backend load failures, to prevent puzzling (seg fault crashed) disappearance of SANE frontends! Update 2025-11-03: I discovered that the "Epson Scan 2" desktop GUI for Linux provided the option to scan extended length pages, with no specified length limit, at 300 DPI (max allowed for this mode). Speculatively, I tried to scan some very-wide old landscape school photographs sideways, each approximately 2 to 3 times A4 height, and it worked. I later rotated the images back to landscape and re-saved them, to view them and zoom in. Before that I could only to use a flat scanner and scan multiple sections which was obviously disjointed to view; it would probably have been hard to trim the overlays and splice all of the sections into one image for each photograph. I may later try to specify a custom page-size of the photograph dimensions, to see if the scanner can support scanning them at higher DPI, to allow seeing more detail.

Un appareil esthétique et peu encombrant. Son utilisation est d’une facilité élémentaire et je l’ai trouvé bien plus rapide qu’un scanner intégré à une imprimante. Il a aussi l’avantage de proposer des paramètres de « scanning » selon l’image que l’on veut obtenir. Attention lors du nettoyage de l’appareil : n’utiliser que le kit de nettoyage en « mousse » fournie avec le produit ou un kit de nettoyage prévu à cet effet et aucun autre type de carte !

Den Epson Workforce ES‑50 habe ich bereits 2020 zum ersten Mal gekauft und war damals schon sehr zufrieden. Jetzt habe ich ein weiteres Gerät bestellt, da sich der Scanner im Alltag als zuverlässig und langlebig erwiesen ht. Besonders positiv ist, dass er sich auch unter Linux problemlos verwenden lässt – ein Punkt, der für mich entscheidend war. Der Scanner ist stabil gebaut, wirkt hochwertig verarbeitet und benötigt kaum Platz auf dem Schreibtisch oder der Tasche . Trotz seiner kompakten Größe arbeitet er überraschend schnell und liefert saubere Ergebnisse. Die Produktbeschreibung passt und entspricht dem, was man erhält. Ein kleiner Schwachpunkt bleibt jedoch die USB‑Kabelverbindung. Die Buchse im Gerät wirkt etwas empfindlich, sodass man beim Einstecken und Herausziehen vorsichtig sein sollte. Funktional beeinträchtigt das den Scanner zwar nicht, aber hier hätte ich mir eine robustere Lösung gewünscht. Insgesamt ist der ES‑50 ein sehr guter, platzsparender und zuverlässiger Scanner, den ich trotz der kleinen Schwäche weiterhin empfehlen kann.

Très bon petit scanner portable, Très facile à installer et à configurer, Très bonne qualité et légère. Je recommande vivement se scanner pour les déplacements en voiture.

Necesitaba un escáner para digitalizar miles de fotos en papel de toda una vida. Este escáner ha sido la solución perfecta ya que es muy rápido y con una buena calidad de escaneo. Al principio me costaba que las fotos salieran rectas y enteras, pero tras practicar la inserción de la foto ya conseguí que salieran rectas. Para las fotos 10x15 le puse las medidas al perfil para que salieran completas, las más grandes lo pongo en detección de tamaño automática y salen perfectas.

Mooi apparaat, werkt erg snel, zeer tevreden mee en handig voor onderweg!