Epson Workforce ES-50 Ultra Portable A4 Document Scanner USB 3.0, 200-1200dpi, 5.5 seconds per page, Scan to Cloud or e-mail, Searchable PDF

This is such a good scanner
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.

Good scanner, OK software
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.

Slow through put.
I never managed to get this to work with my desktop.

Portability is good, works in Linux using SANE, however the quality of scans is low
You get portability and its fairly easy to get working with linux with no drivers. If you want something simple to scan A4 documents, photos or ID its fine. However, if you your scanning pencil drawings it really does not pick up on subtle shadings at all, images looked washed out even at the highest settings. I was able to get better quality scans from an old cheap flatbed from 10 years ago. Same goes for scanning colour art posters, for some reason everything is quite grainy / rough on output despite the original artwork being slick / sharp poster stock. Over downsides is its not USB C which makes no sense in 2023 and you constantly need to clean the scanner after every few scans dew to line streaks appearing on images. Would not recommend if your want high quality scans, overall disappointed with the output.

Tenía una impresora escáner que no me quejo pero no te go suficiente espacio para tenerla y esto ha sido un éxito, la uso y guardo en un cajón, no ocupa espacio, escanea perfectamente y conexión facilísima.

تمت اعادته .. لايعمل .. والذي وصلني مستعمل

L’installation et la mise en route bien terminées, j’ai commencer à faire des scans des feuilles A4. Tout se passait bien, j’ai scanné une carte de visite, pas de problème non plus, ensuite j’ai scanné un ticket de caisse d’un supermarché, aucun problème, mais ensuite ça se gâtait：à partir de ce moment-là, tous les scans donnent une partie plus claire sur le côté gauche de la feuille (voir le document en annexe). J’ai essayé tous les paramètres du logiciel sans succès.Le service support d’Epson ne donne que l’accès à des pilotes, des logiciels, des conseils mais ne permet pas de les contacter directement.Je vous déconseille donc l’achat de ce produit, sans assistance en cas de pépin aucun intérêt !