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With its compact design, fast performance and superb scan quality, the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 is our top pick for portable scanners.

For anyone looking for a light-duty, portable document scanner, the ScanSnap S1100 is worth a look. It offers easy-to-use presets for scanning to Microsoft Office applications as well as cloud services like Evernote and Google Docs.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 is highly portable and easy to use, but like other ScanSnap models, it doesn't come with a standard scan driver, which would give it more flexibility.

This small, A4 scanner from Fujitsu is very convenient to use: it draws its power from a USB port and it can be used right there at your desk to scan loose sheets of paper one at a time. Some useful software ships with it, too, although its business card scanning software isn't great.

The quality of photo scans stumbles, but for all sorts of text-based documents, the ScanSnap S1100 is a mighty mini scanner.

All in all, it’s a flexible little travel companion, and it’s ... cheaper than the next model up in Fujitsu’s range, which doesn’t offer cloud scanning

This is a very good portable scanner for the money and is exceptionally easy to use, particularly if your main requirement is to produce PDF files.

Overall, the ScanSnap S1100 does an excellent job of scanning documents and photographs. Especially helpful is the scanner’s ability to recognize different sized documents as it scan them. It also recognizes and ignores blank pages, plus autocorrects for pages that you feed in bottom first.

This lightweight, compact mobile scanner seems a little fragile, but it's bundled with class-leading software that makes it a joy to use

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 is a portable document scanner that runs off of a single USB cable. It's quite fast and accurate in addition to being small, and it will automatically deskew scans so you don't need to worry about feeding paper in exactly at the correct angle.

So if you are looking for an ultra portable scanner that can fit in tight spaces, save images to a searchable PDF file, and can scan at high speeds and can than look to the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100.