As with most of Kodak Alaris's other models, including the Kodak i2800 and the Kodak i2600, the i1150 lets you define a set of profiles with descriptive names. According to the company, you can plug either one into a second USB port on your PC and control it through the i1150's front panel. If you also need a flatbed, Kodak Alaris offers two options-one legal size ($495) and one tabloid size ($1,400).

Unless you already have the programs you need, however, you'll have to buy them separately.īasics and Scanning The i1150 offers a 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) and a 600-pixel per inch (ppi) optical resolution.

The drivers will let you scan from virtually any Windows program with a scan command, so if you're looking for a scanner for more general-purpose use, there's no reason you can't consider the i1150.

As of this writing, Kodak Alaris expects to have equivalent for the Mac available for downloading shortly, with Linux drivers available for downloading soon after. It comes with two Kodak scan utilities: Twain, WIA, and ISIS drivers and EMC Captiva Cloud Capture, which is a developer's toolkit for creating connectors to let you send scanned images to cloud-based applications. The presumption with the i1150 is that you'll be using it with software-most likely a vertical market package-that you already have. The i1150 includes OCR capability in its scan utility, which will let you scan to searchable PDF format and editable text, but it doesn't include any standalone applications. But with the Canon DR-C125 you also get programs for document management, optical character recognition (OCR), and business-card management, plus a PDF utility. Looking strictly at hardware, the Kodak and Canon models deliver almost the same speed and capability. One key difference between the i1150 and scanners aimed at more general office use, like the Editors' Choice Canon imageFormula DR-C125, is that the i1150 doesn't come with any application programs. In most ways, however, the i1150 is simply a highly capable desktop scanner that can fit well in most offices. A small, raised ledge on the front of the scanner, for example, will let you prop up an ID card for easy readability. Indeed, there are some touches that will be particularly welcome for those kinds of vertical markets.

The Kodak ScanMate i1150 ($495) is aimed at scenarios like the front desk in a medical office that needs to scan documents from incoming patients into special-purpose software throughout the day.

Kodak i1150 driver