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Strobe Pro NT Visioneer.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)

Computer Weekly

| March 16, 2000 | Smith, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2000 Reed Business Information Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If there's one single bit of hardware that I had to choose as the best bit of kit I've ever had, it would have to be the Visioneer PaperPort. Renamed the Strobe Pro, this was one of the first kitchen roll-sized sheetfed scanners. Now it. and the company that makes it is back.

The Strobe Pro NT has always been one of those rare products focussed sharply on one key function: breaking down the barrier between paper and PC. Sitting neatly between keyboard and monitor, its L-shaped paper path means that you can feed a page into the front and it comes out the top.

Its excellent PaperPort Deluxe document management software handles your scans expertly. Like very few other products (the Palm .PDA would be another). the Strobe Pro just does one job very well.

The Strobe Pro NT now features USB (and parallel and serial port) connectivity with Win98 and NT4. as well as 300 dpi. 30-bit colour. Set up is straightforward. And scanning itself is very quick-an A4 page will whip through in about five seconds. But this product is as much about the software as the hardware. The PaperPort Deluxe software uses an Explorer-like interface. with ...

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