Canon imageFORMULA P-215II Portable Scanner | Double-sided Scanning | USB Powered Scanning | Home, Office & when Mobile | Up to 15 Pages Per Min | 20 Sheet Feeder | Canon CaptureOnTouch Lite Software

Even if you don't need it's portability, the P-215ll is a superb scanner. Made all the more useful by the excellent software that ships with it, which is both easy to use and very versatile. The best feature though, has to be the dual scanner heads. Both sides of the page are scanned at once and the software orientates the page based on the text it 'sees'. The scanner software lets you build up a library of scan folder locations and gives you the choice of adding your own naming convention, have the scanner name your scans using the date and time, or combine the two. You can set up different naming rules for every scan folder location. So as a Project Manager, I can prefix my scans with the project name depending on the target folder I select. The final killer feature is the dedicated business/ID card slot. This makes scanning a batch of business cards quick and easy. The scanner includes the BizCard software program for organizing your scans and integrating them with Microsoft Office.

I Have purchased 6 or seven of these at least over the years for myself and work colleagues. They are ideal for the 'mobile office'.Unbelievable that you can scan double sided unlike an A4 Flatbed or other Portable Scanners that I have researched and scans as fast if not faster as a big desktop scannerThe software is very intuitive and easy to use yet gives you functions for editing, renaming, document sorting and many other customisable.Its more expensive than some, but the best value for money

Up until recently I had a multi function device from Canon (combined printer and scanner) but it wasn't particularly easy or light to move around, so I was on the lookout for a combined portable printer and scanner. Unfortunately I found that Canon doesn't make such a device, but ended up buying their portable printer (iP110) and this device as the scanner.First thing to note - it's fast - very fast - if you scan at the default setting which is black and white, it churns through a page very impressively (around 1s) - if you ramp it up to colour and 600dpi (the top setting) - it slows down quite a lot - but then again so do most scanners.This is the 2nd version of the P-215 scanner (as signified by the II postfix on the model name), and has been around for a while - the software that you get for this device is a little confusing - it comes with CaptureOnTouch v3.2, however if you look at the support website the Pro version (v4) is also available. If you choose to install v4 then you should uninstall v3.2 first - it will not install "over the top" of v3.2.The other worthy thing to note is that it comes with 2x USB cables - one is a micro USB data connector and the other is for power (it ends in a yellow power connector) - you are supposed to be able to get a "wall wart" adapter for this, but I've been unable to find a part number, and to be honest as long as you have 2x USB sockets, you don't need one.I connected this to my desktop PC, installed the software and it worked straight away, however on my laptop it was a slightly more involved affair - I know for a fact all my USB ports work on my laptop, yet I had to try different USB ports in order for the printer to work correctly - I am not sure whether this is due to the amount of power being drawn from a particular controller or a firmware issue (there are no firmware updates for this printer on their support site), but I had to use different USB ports depending on when I had powered my machine on (i.e. it changes between each reboot of the laptop).This device is also supposed to be able to scan even if it's not connected to a computer (and indeed is recognised as a drive when connected to a PC) but I have not yet used this functionality and will report further when/if I do so.There is also an optional WiFi adapter for this device which I had to purchase separately which allows you to operate this scanner independently and do not need to plug this scanner into a computer - it is in effect a USB Ethernet adapter. My recommendation ? Do not buy the WiFi unit or scanner - now I have used this device for a few months, it has become extremely irritating and if I could return it I would.Firstly I haven't been able to get the USB Ethernet adapter (Canon badged) working properly on Windows 10 (only Windows 7 is supported but I didn't find this out until after I had purchased the device and tried to get support on it - I say tried as no one from Canon called me back to assist further). Secondly although this item has a sheet feeder it is very temperamental in whether it picks up ANY pages - let alone any pages after the first. In daily usage I find I have to give the scanner a helping hand and push the paper into the scanner in order for it to pick up properly - this issue is exacerbated if you have a piece of paper which has been folded up (e.g. a letter) which you are trying to scan. I really wish Canon had tested this product further in their R&D labs before releasing it to the public.This device is so bad I will think twice before buying Canon again in the future.

Not very quick, but very quiet! Sometimes it feeds extra pages so have to observe it all the time while scanning. I love the software coming with it, very easy to use and straight forward. I also love the fact it automatically rotates the pages and the scanning quality is really good.I would recommend this product!

The Canon P-21511 is a brilliant piece of equipment. I bought it to replace the Canon P-150 Scanner which was not compatible with upgrade to Windows 11. The P-21511 can scan many sheets of paper in one go, either duplex or simplex; it detects whether pages are black and white / 24 bit colour / greyscale. Scanned pages can be printed / sent to file / attached to email. The scanner is portable and takes up very little desk space.