This is not the full version, but it does the job. For optical character recognition the scanner comes with Nuance OmniPage. You get Nuance PaperPort for organizing the resulting scans. The scanning software for the Windows side is pretty good. Text is slightly blurry and photos are washed out and very soft. We had to rescan a lot of sheets to get one that was straight. The software does not do a good job of automatically straightening the sheets. First, the sheet feeder has a real problem sending the pages through straight. The great idea turns south when it comes to execution with the Visioneer Strobe 500. While docked it does duplex scans in single pass mode. The sheet comes through the scanner to get the top side (face down) and then scans the bottom side (face up). It doesn’t scan them with just one pass, though. But it is a duplex scanner, meaning it scans both sides of the paper. It is not the smallest portable scanner around. So you have a duplex scanner that can travel with you. There is a USB cable to connect to a computer and one that connects to the power port so that you can power the scanner through the USB port on your laptop. What makes this scanner interesting is that when you want to take it with you, just press the release button on the lower right side and the scanner pops out of the dock. The dock has both a paper feeder and a holding tray to keep the sheets after they are fed through the scanner. It achieves this double life with a docking station that holds the scanner and turns it into a sheetfed duplex scanner. It is both a desktop scanner and a mobile scanner in one. The Visioneer Strobe 500 is a unique scanner.
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