Avision MiWand 2 Wi-Fi Pro

Right now, going paperless is a very appealing notion with many cloud storage services offering a free amount of storage. While you can opt for e-bills and other forms of electronic documents and receipts, what happens to your old physical documents?

Scanning them is a given, but to place each and every piece of paper on a flatbed scanner seems like a tedious chore when you need to boot up your PC, and then start up the scanner. That’s why the Avision MiWand 2 Wi-Fi Pro offers a convenient option, and it’s portable to boot.

Design

The Avision MiWand 2 Wi-Fi Pro comes with a feeder dock, while the non-pro version just ships with the scanner unit alone. The scanner unit weights about 260g with the rechargeable battery inside, which makes it relatively light if you really need to carry the scanner unit around.

Scanning

The scanning process is very straight-forward as all you need to do is to place the page you want so scan on a flat surface and roll the MiWand 2 Pro over it slowly after pressing the scan button. The MiWand 2 pro offers three scan resolution, 300 dpi, 600 dpi and 1200 dpi, which should be more than enough for most users.

We did notice that even though the auto-crop function was enabled, somehow the MiWand 2 Pro didn’t succeed in cropping the excess edges out, so be prepared to spend some time cropping your scans. You will also have to try to roll at a slower controlled pace, as rolling the MiWand 2 Pro too fast will result in a "compressed" scan as the scanner is unable to process the input at that rate.

The MiWand 2 Wi-Fi Pro also comes with Wi-Fi. There’s a switch on the MiWand 2 Pro itself to toggle the Wi-F function which allows it to function as an access point. Your default web browser will automatically launch after you connect to the scanner (be it your PC or mobile device), and you can preview and download your scanned images from that webpage.

This means that you will need to log off your home/office Wi-Fi connection, connect to the scanner, and once you’re done downloading the images; connect once again to your home/office Wi-Fi connection. This is a rather cumbersome process so we recommend just connecting to the scanner via USB if you can afford to do so. Also, when the Wi-Fi function on the MiWand 2 Pro is on, you can’t use the scan function, so make sure you get all your scans done first before connecting via Wi-Fi.