Review on Kodak 1960988 ScanMate I940 Scanner by Maurice Strawther

A few minor imperfections here and there but most of the issues mentioned in negative or neutral software reviews were posted in July 2014 fixed Regarding the version I'm currently using (1.7.111) I would say that the software is actually one of the best features of this device and Kodak seems to be constantly updating it. To use this device, press the arrow button to select the preset on the device itself, then press the green scan button to scan. You can have up to 9 presets and turn off the ones you don't use so you don't have to scroll through them with the arrow key. The resolution you select on the Settings tab determines the scanning speed. It technically works up to 1200dpi but I've found that the image quality doesn't improve beyond 600dpi and it can sometimes crash on OCR (optical character recognition) at 1200dpi. The settings are a little confusing, but one of my main problems with the software has recently been solved, which is that you can't have more than three settings shortcuts. The settings link is a setting in each task link preset that relates to how the image is created. For example, previously you could not use more than three different combinations of resolution/number of pages/compression/document type. Now you can have as many as you want. In general, I just don't understand how anyone can complain about this device. It does exactly what I want and it's very cheap. Ergonomically, it does its job well considering it's a lightweight, small form factor device. Regardless of what Kodak says, the document feeder can handle 20+ pages and will scan all day, as long as you can fit paper. Here are some of the presets I used: 1) Grayscale OCR PDFs for scanning regular documents (single sided and double sided, I have presets for each) 2) Color OCR PDFs for scanning color documents 3) Color BMPs - files for scanning photos 4 ) High-resolution non-text PDF files, non-OCR, for scanning music - works very well, no distortion. The OCR works very well, although it seems to distort the background image quite a bit like older versions of Abode did. Probably a solution I haven't explored. I can't complain if I don't have to pay an apartment to get decent OCR scanned documents. If I have to disagree on one thing, it's that the color photo scanning is so-so. Tablets are a much better choice for photography. You cannot use JPEG compression at all with photos in the i940 software or they will be blurry and oversaturated. And you have to clean the glass almost every time you scan a photo, otherwise you get streaks. because basically all the presets are too low (like 200dpi) and if you add the standard jpeg compression it will ruin practically every image you scan. I'm 100% sure they did this to promote better scan times. You need to start at 300 dpi to get decent quality and then work your way up. If you just got this thing and the images look awful the answer is YES, you need to play around with the software to get the best scan quality. Presto Bizcard included - don't really know how it works but it's excellent. Upload a business card, click Get business card. It automatically sends it to Outlook linked to my Gmail account for me, so I'm done. It's impressive how accurate it is. It always seems to fill in the correct fields. So for the price, the Kodak i940 is an excellent scanner. I really see no reason to spend more money on the average home office. Edit: I'm deducting a star after a year because the software is getting harder and harder to get and Kodak won't be selling it anymore. Also, they haven't been updated for a long time. However, the hardware still works perfectly after so many years.