The KS810-P keyboard scanner
The KeyScan keyboard scanner “combines the best features of a full-function keyboard with a high-resolution scanner”.
The KS810-P keyboard scanner, produced by KeyScan, combines both a scanner and computer keyboard in a “convenient way to eliminate clutter and create your own document or image files”. The company stated that the technology is “so easy to use” that it “can be set up to automatically scan photos and documents just by dropping them into the keyboard’s scanner”, while resolution, colour and file size are easily customisable, with scans sent directly to an email address.
No “expensive add-on software” is required, and the keyboard scanner connects to a Windows machine (there is currently no Macintosh compatibility) through a USB2 socket, and works on Windows 7, 8 and 10 as well as XP and Vista. The scanner can also scan paper documents two by three inches up to 8.5 by 30 inches, as well as plastic cards, and can save output files as PDF, DOC, HTML, JPEG, BMP or TIFF, with an output resolution from 50 to 4,800dpi.
The KS810-P, KeyScan adds, is “the basic essential element for document scanning and paperless office”, and retails for $159.99 (€146.39).