Best Scanners For Mac Laptops : Portable MacBook Scanner
#1 Portable Scanner For MacBook
Any hard-core business traveler who's had to do document scanning on the road with their Apple MacBook will tell you Fujitsu's SnapScan single-sheet hand-fed scanner CHEWS thru reciepts, invoices, contracts and more with amazing speed - and spits out a JPG or PDF file to your Mac laptop screen or saves to your hard drive in seconds. Just a great mobile accessory for travel needs.Best-Selling Mobile Mac Laptop Scanner
USB-Powered ScanSnap S1100
10.7 x 1.9 x 1.3 inches and weighing only around 3/4 of a pound - This is the Mac road warrior's top choice for ultra-compact travel scanners. See Fujitsu's Mac scanner support pages for Drivers and OSX compatibility notes for ScanSnap Manager, ABBYFineReader, CardIRIS and EverNote software if needed.
Two-Sided Mobile Apple Notebook Scanner
This Fujitsu ScanSnap mobile scanner model is larger and slightly bulkier than the above - but offers DUAL-SIDED scanning and 10-Page automated sheet feeding abilities in a jiffy - which can be a real time-saver for multi-page, two sided documents. It's imporant to note this USB-powered portable scanner requires your Mac have TWO USB ports (or a powered USB hub) for adequate power - and as such it's use of a 'Y' cable is NOT the right choice for MacBook AIR models with only a single USB port - and a bit problematic requiring a USB A-B extender cable with new ThunderBolt AIR's with two USB ports - but on OPPOSITE sides...Duplex Portable Scanner
S1300 Travel Scanner
The base S1300 model around $249 is the right Mac OSX choice. (There's a slightly higher-priced $299 "DELUXE" Bundle version of the S1300 that includes additional PC software for WINDOWS ONLY!)
Cordless Portable Scanner For Mac
A trend in portable scanning is built-in flash memory and battery to allow wire-free cordless scanning anywhere. When you're ready to transfer scans to your Mac - just plug in via USB and it appears as a 'drive' icon on your Desktop ready to copy files, or remove the SD card and plug into your Mac's SD card slot.Iris Scan Anywhere 2
Mac OSX Software Suite
The scan anywhere comes with 512MB built in memory, a 2GB SD card, ReadIris OCR and business card scanning software for Mac. All in all a great bundle.
HP Portable Scanner for Mac? - Definitely PC
Recently Hewlett-Packard started offering the ScanJet Professional 1000 travel scanner that works with OSX Leopard 10.5 and up for TWIAN scanning support many Mac owners who've owned other HP products are familiar with.HP Travel Scanner
Manual-Feed + Duplex Scanning
Note the included Windows software supports far more advanced and intelligent document manager features and OmniPage OCR only on Windows. May be a functional solution - but not IDEAL option for Mac users.
Brother Laptop Scanner
MacBook Scanning - To Go!
Brother offers a compact Mac laptop scanner at a more affordable price than most. Do be aware you'll want to download the latest Mac OSX drivers for it _before_ plugging it in. Brother is pretty good about Mac support - tho Mac scanner drivers for OSX Lion are available online. See this page for Apple DS-600 scanning drivers and support info.
