Product Description

The CF Scan Card 5M will turn your Pocket PC into an advanced mobile bar code scanner. Socket's bar code scanning brings a new level of convenience and portability to mobile data collection by combining Socket's Mobility Friendly™ CompactFlash technology with a revolutionary laser scanner from Symbol Technologies. The CF Scan Card 5M is equipped with a powerful Class 1 laser bar code scanning engine, and is able to handle large volume and high speed scanning. Its state-of-the-art laser technology enables the reading of damaged, poor quality and hard to read bar codes, even on curved and reflective surfaces and in dim environments.

Product Details

• Brand: Socket
• Model: IS5025-609
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 6.50" w x 9.50" l, .50 pounds

Features

• Sold Individually

Customer Reviews

Save your money!
We bought this to use for scanning ISBN bar codes on books--what a disappointment! It won't read any bar codes which aren't PERFECT (that is, black ink on a clear background). Scanning over colored paper, through clear wrappers, or faded items simply WON'T work. Even perfect bar codes need several attempts. We have the Socket Scan 5P, and that works GREAT on all kinds of media and poor conditions. This one is nothing but frustration. Spend the money on the higher end model. It's worth it!

Great Scanning option
The Socket Brand CF scan cards work great for integrating barcode scanning capability into Pocket PCs.

Our company writes applications for Pocket PC and I recommend the CF scan cards with laser scanning capability over the CMOS imager (which are often $150-200 cheaper) as the CMOS imager seems to have more difficulty reading barcodes that are wrapped in cellophane as well as reading UPCs in more difficult lighting conditions.

Socket makes a nice driver for the Pocket PC which will allow a user to assign a button on the PDA and begin scanning in MS applications like Word and Excel right away.

Good Product
I am very happy with the performance of this product. It has greatly improved the efficiency of my business. The scanner does a very good job of reading bar codes. It will even pick up just a sliver and slightly faded codes. I use this item with an HP PDA and it was easy to install and set up for 1-click scanning.

My only complaint is that the scanner does not come with a case/cover. A $300 piece of technology needs to come with a case or at least have third party options. My PDA came with a nice case, but I have to carry my combined PDA and scanner in a zip-lock bag to protect the scanner attachment...not much protection and not very attractive.