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The software also you to save your scans as PNGs, PDFs, and PDFs with ABBYY OCR. The software can also pass scans to other locally installed software, like Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Photoshop, or Evernote, or to cloud services like Dropbox, Google Docs, or Doxie’s own Doxie Cloud. The lists of applications and cloud services can be adjusted in the software’s preferences.
To get an idea of the Doxie’s scan quality, I fired up the HP Deskjet 3050 all-in-one in my home office and made a few 300 dpi scans. This is hardly a top-of-the-line flatbed scanner, but it should be indicative of the scan quality you’ll get from the cheap all-in-ones sitting in most homes and offices.
The first sample image is from one of the inserts included with the scanner with battery such as Apple A1175 Battery , Apple A1185 Battery , Apple M9324 Battery , Apple M8403 Battery , Apple M7318 Battery , apple PowerBook G3 Battery , Apple PowerBook G4 Battery , Apple A1039 Battery , Apple A1057 Battery , Apple M9326 Battery , and it depicts an anthropomorphic Doxie scanner enjoying a beverage by a swimming pool.
The Doxie scan’s colors are more saturated (and to my eye, a bit more accurate), but it’s also decidedly softer and noisier than the scan made by the HP printer. Also note the shadow at the bottom of the Doxie scan—that’s coming from a place where the sheet was folded, and the lid of the HP printer did a much better job of flattening out the crease and eliminating that shadow. This was pretty consistent with any folded or wrinkled paper—the Doxie captured more of these imperfections while the HP was able to smooth them out.
In a text document like this Google Play receipt, the Doxie’s softer and noisier image quality is again evident. Also notice that the HP scan has higher contrast by default, which will be helpful if you ever need to re-print this document. Do note, however, that the Doxie’s software includes contrast controls that can help rectify this issue.
The Doxie Go's scan quality is perfectly usable for its intended purpose, but it's not something you'll want to use to convert precious family photos. For that, you'd be better off with even a cheap all-in-one flatbed, at least if our comparisons are any indication.
For an additional $30, Doxie will throw in a 4GB Eye-Fi SD card, which is a standard size SD card with integrated 2.4 GHz 802.11n wireless. These cards aren’t new—we first covered them all the way back in early 2008—but when inserted into the Doxie Go they enable wireless transfers of your scans directly to your PCs and Macs, or Android and iOS devices.