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Xerox Scanner DocuMate XMOBILE

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Mobile Document Capture:

Scanner vs. Phone Camera

A White Paper

by John Capurso, Vice President of Marketing, Visioneer Inc., a Xerox

® Trademark Licensee

Despite the trend toward everything digital, paper has not gone away. And while we have great

technology in our ofces to capture, organize and share the information we possess in paper form,

nding a solution for reliable document capture while on the road has been difcult.

A portable scanner is an attractive option with the functionality of being able to scan almost anything,

anywhere that you have your laptop. But what if you don’t have a laptop with you, or don’t want to

carry it? Or you do, but you are somewhere with no Internet connection and you desperately need to

send your scanned le to someone else? You could take a picture with your cell phone, but is that really

the best solution?

When given the choice to capture a document with a portable scanner or a phone camera, there are

many issues to consider. And many people would simply say, “but, my phone is with me all the time, I’ll

just take a picture of the document, it’s good enough.” Maybe...

Portable scanners have taken a tremendous functional leap recently with the introduction of the

Xerox® Mobile Scanner. This mobile scanner represents a new category of portable scanners that

“talks” to mobile phones and pads. These battery-powered, cordless scanners don’t need a computer

to operate. They are simple to use, create a PDF or JPG le of your scanned page and store it on a USB

stick or SD memory card. To make it even more impressive, the Xerox Mobile Scanner comes with a

wireless SD card that transmits the scanned les to your computer, phone, pad or the cloud over any

Wi-Fi network. So now it is possible to not only scan without a computer, but also transfer the les to

your phone and share them anywhere. Let’s consider the options and consequences of all this.

First, using a phone’s camera alone to capture documents produces limited, low-quality results. Several

things contribute to the poor results:

Lighting

Your phone camera relies on reecting light to the lens. You either get limited ambient light or

harsh ash, hot spots on the page, glare on glossy photos or magazines, basically inconsistent and

unpredictable lighting.

Focus

The camera shot is often out of focus from trying to frame the document and getting too close.

Aspect

The camera is rarely at the perfect top-down angle while the scanner positions the document

perfectly at and at the proper angle.

Cropping

You have to crop your document as best you can with the phone camera and you’ll still get more

table top around the document than you want. The scanner auto-crops any size document from a

business card to legal page.

Quality

Overall, the image quality is superior on the scanner. Zoom in on a camera photo and the same

page captured with a scanner and see which holds up better. Cameras do a great job at portraits &

scenery, but not documents or photos of photos.

File Size

The scanner’s le size is less than half that of the camera photo, yet the scanner has better image

quality.

There are some new apps for smartphones that are

far more sophisticated at document capture than

simply using your phone’s camera. I’ve tried many of

these and, I’ll admit, they are an improvement over

the camera alone, but that doesn’t mean this solution

is the one you should go with.

Xerox Mobile scanner scans a document in 10 seconds

and provides superior quality and detail while keeping

the les sizes to a minimum.

Phone Apps

The Phone Capture Apps (PCAs) still rely on the camera and therefore are prone to problems:

• Glare and hot spots from the ash still make the document lighting inconsistent.

• Image Enhancement (sort of an Auto-Exposure) by the app helps to clean up some bad lighting, but

it’s not great. Results are not optimal or consistent.

• PCAs usually have a “bounding box” for you to crop and straighten the photographed

document and it does its best to judge where the document ends, but you still have to manually

stretch the bounding box to capture the entire document when the PCA’s auto mode is not

100% right.

• A page that’s been folded introduces many problems, different focus levels, lighting and irregular

edges. At best you need two hands to hold the document at and another to take the photo.

• Capturing a single document might be convenient with a PCA, but I’m going to get very tired of using

these PCAs if I have to scan 10 pages or receipts.

So, if I had only my phone, would I use one of these PCAs to capture a document? Absolutely. It’s

better than nothing and with a little luck, it would be adequate. But my mobile scanner will give me

high quality results every time (better than any phone camera every time and better than any Phone

Capture App every time).

Test

I conducted an informal but very controlled test of a document that came in the mail today, the

back of my 1099-HC Massachusetts Health Care Form. The original is a standard 8 ½” x 11” US Letter

document, clean laser copy and folded to t in a standard #10 business envelope. I compared an

iPhone® 4 camera (high quality 5.1 MP) coupled with a free app called Genius Scan which many users

have asked about as a substitute for a mobile scanner, against the Xerox Mobile Scanner with its free

iPhone app, DocToMe.

Genius Scan rst re-oriented the document image upside down so I had to rotate it 180˚. The app

does auto-cropping, image enhancement, and lets the user select PDF or JPG le format. It also

allows the user to pick among small, medium, large and actual size when emailing the image. Being

marginal quality, I opted for actual size to put image quality at its best and to fairly compare with

the Xerox Mobile Scanner which also acquires the image at actual size.

My Xerox® Mobile Scanner was set for black and white PDF. It scanned the document in 10 seconds

and wirelessly delivered the PDF image above instantly to the iPhone app, DocToMe.

Conclusion

Quality clearly suffers with the phone camera and Genius Scan and it would be an act of last resort.

If I want to capture documents with any regularity and quality is important, then the Xerox Mobile

Scanner is my mobile scanner of choice, any scanner.

Consider this

Would you use your phone’s camera to shoot your vacation to Europe? Would you use your phone’s

GPS as your main GPS device in your car? Of course not. In a pinch, your phone’s apps do an

adequate job for both of these functions. But with any regularity, you want a full function device,

one that was designed for this purpose because it has been optimized for quality, productivity, ease

of use and compatibility.

Why do people buy Kindles instead of reading books with the Kindle app on their phone or

computer? Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, explained, “People want a designated device, people want a

purpose-lled device, where no trade offs have been made, where every single design decision […]

has been made to optimize for reading.” Substitute “scanning” for “reading” in Jeff’s quote and

you have another well-stated reason why you should use scanners over a phone camera to capture

documents.

For more information about the Xerox line of scanners, visit www.xeroxscanners.com

States and/or other countries. Apple® and iPhone® are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Prices, features,

specifications, capabilities, appearance and availability of Xerox products and services are subject to change without notice. 03/12

BR1579

Scanned page and a detail zoom shown above

scanned by the Xerox® Mobile Scanner as a B/W PDF

at 300 dpi. The le size is 80 KB,

Picture of the same page and a detail zoom taken by

the iPhone 4 Camera w/ Genius Scan app as a B/W

PDF, 5.1 MP sensor. The le size is twenty times larger

at 1.5 MB.

Product specificaties

Merk:	Xerox
Categorie:	Scanner
Model:	DocuMate XMOBILE
Kleur van het product:	Roestvrijstaal
Gewicht:	638 g
Breedte:	70 mm
Diepte:	292 mm
Hoogte:	51 mm
USB-poort:	Ja
Compatibele geheugenkaarten:	SD
USB-versie:	2.0
Type beeldsensor:	CIS
Ingangsspanning:	100-240 V
Ondersteunt Windows:	Ja
Soort voeding:	Batterij/Accu
Ondersteunt Mac-besturingssysteem:	Ja
Mac-compatibiliteit:	Ja
Standaard interfaces:	USB 2.0
Optische scanresolutie:	300 x 300 DPI
Maximale ISO A-series papierformaat:	A4
Duplex scannen:	Nee
Kleurdiepte invoer:	- Bit
Scan naar:	Memory Card, USB
Maximum scanformaat:	216 x 297 mm
Scan bestandsformaten:	JPG, PDF
Kleurenscans:	Ja
Film-scannen:	Nee
Dagelijkse diensten cyclus (max):	300 pagina's
AC-ingangsfrequentie:	- Hz
Scanformaat documentinvoer (min):	51 x 51 mm
Maximum scanformaat (documentinvoer):	216 x 297 mm
Lichtbron:	LED
Kleurdiepte uitvoer:	24 Bit
Flatbed scan snelheid (b/w, A4):	10 sec/pagina