Epson Workforce ES-60W Wireless Portable Scanner

I’ve never had a portable scanner before and after buying this, I will never go back to not having one. This has been so great and I have been so impressed with everything so far. I bought it initially for work and scanning documents, but have since used it for other documents like medical receipts. This is great since medical bills are a tax write-off and having to store receipts for a year is stressful and tedious. Having them scanned and organized for this and to have as a reference when talking with insurance has been amazing.

Scanning is so fast and easy, even double-sided documents. I’ve also scanned long receipts for car rentals and the scanner had no problem with scanning such long documents. There have been no problems so far and I bought a case that helps with the portability and storing. I have been using this more often than expected and as helped so much with organization.

I bought this product for wireless connectivity. But after a long and painful installation process, couldn’t even once got connected to any wifi be it windows mac or android. Extremely frustrating experience

My wife is retiring from the Navy after 20 years, and she asked me to scan her medical records into files that can be sent to the VA. I have a scanner built into our printer at home, but if I had to toss a guess out, I would say each page on that thing would be about 20-25 seconds to scan. She has 5 volumes of medical records… That’s not happening. I’d considered contracting out this work as there are companies that will take the medical records, scan and index them, but I decided this scanner should work and provided at least some of the features the contract company was offering.

The software is pretty easy to set up, and it’s not difficult at all to get it connected to a wireless network. I admittedly don’t know if it would work without being connected to my PC, but as I was doing A LOT of scanning I kept it hooked up to keep the battery charged. So far, I’ve scanned about 3/5 of her records, which took me about 4 hours.

I’m very happy with the quality of the scans, and the software which allows saving the pages as searchable PDF files. I think my only gripe would be that once you save all the files, the page with all the scans closes. I’m not sure if those scans are saved on my PC anywhere, and haven’t really had the time to dig into it (for instance, if I wanted to go back and save parts of volumes without having to rescan the pages). It’s something I will look into.

I also scanned a few long receipts, as that’s a future use I wanted the scanner for, and it worked well enough. It’s a little difficult to keep them feeding straight if they’re REALLY long, but it’s not a deal breaker.

Pros: Ease of use, good software, very fast when compared to a traditional scanner you’d find on a household all-in-one printer.

Cons: Not exactly sure if scans are saved individually, and the charge did run down to half even while hooked to my PC during scanning. But I was doing A LOT of scanning over and over again, so probably wouldn’t be an issue except for VERY heavy use.

Overall very satisfied with the scanner.

Buen producto, fácil de utilizar y práctico.

The operating system of the device is too slow to start up and connect to the phone app – I’ve also noticed that my device cannot enter cleaning mode/calibration mode through the mobile app, I would not recommend this scanner if you are looking for a functional mobile phone scanner. Furthermore, the device will no longer pull sheets through the scanner – the hum of the motorized scanner wheels have turned into a distressed whirring, likely from some source of oil, dirt, or dust within the scanner assembly. Personally, after having upgraded from the ES-50 to the ES-60 – I will never buy Epson again. I was remarkably surprised by the poor quality of both devices as the ES-60 broke within 2 charges (about a week of consistent use or ~40 scanned docs). This was a direct waste of money for me.