Handles receipts and invoices deftly, if there aren’t too many of them
Over the past few years, Epson has released several scanners, such as the Editors‘ Choice-winning RapidReceipt RR-600W, bundled with software for scanning receipts, invoices, bank statements, and other financial documents. Now Canon has fired back with its own scanner and financial software bundle, the $449.99 imageFormula DR-C225 II Scanner Small Business Edition Powered by Receipt Bank. In addition to the usual document scanning and management software, you get Dext’s popular program for scanning financial papers and extracting pertinent data for export into your bookkeeping software. The hardware or scanner itself, compared to the Epson RR-600W, is as about as entry-level it gets. But if your scanning volume is low—say, no more than a few hundred scans per day—you can save at least $50 by opting for the DR-C225 II. Upright Design, Small Footprint Measuring 8.7 by 11.8 by 6.1 inches (HWD) and weighing 6 pounds, the imageFormula DR-C225 II is the same size and girth as the original DR-C225 reviewed here back in 2014 and the Wi-Fi-equipped DR-C225W in 2015. The advantage of the scanner’s upright design is that it doesn’t require extra room when you open the output tray. The upright, U-shaped paper path takes little space, even when you extend the ADF tray. Most desktop document scanners have input and output trays that extend outward from the chassis, doubling or tripling the machine’s footprint. Among the handful of scanners that come with software for importing financial documents, a few are portables without automatic document feeders (ADFs) that you must feed one sheet at a time. With that in mind, then, the new Canon’s closest competitors are three Epsons: the RapidReceipt RR-600W mentioned earlier, the WorkForce ES-500WR Accounting Edition, and the WorkForce ES-300WR Accounting Edition. As an entry-level scanner, the DR-C225 II doesn’t have much of a control panel, consisting only of a power button and a Start or Scan button as shown below. The control panel consists only of Start and Power buttons. You configure workflow profiles that contain instructions, such as resolution, destination (local drive, a cloud site, a document management program, email, FTP, or whatever) via the bundled software, which we’ll look at shortly. Documents travel on a U-shaped path from the 45-sheet ADF under the scanner and into the upright output tray.
