- AI
Azure OpenAI for Business
20 Mar, 2026







£115.97 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
The Epson WorkForce DS-70 is one of those “small, simple, and actually useful” handheld scanners. For £96.64 ex‑VAT, it makes sense if your team needs occasional A4 scanning where you *can’t* easily justify (or physically fit) a proper desktop/document scanner—think site visits, back‑office admin when files are sporadic, or quickly digitising signed forms. It’s also handy for capturing documents that are awkward to feed through a flatbed. The trade-off is that handheld scanning is always a bit more manual, so if you’re scanning hundreds of pages a day, you’ll feel the effort and time cost.
I’d recommend it for businesses that scan intermittently and value flexibility over workflow speed—small offices, field-based teams, or anyone doing straightforward document capture rather than high-volume scanning. If you need reliable batch scanning with minimal user involvement, or you’re likely to scan a lot of pages regularly, it’s probably not the best value versus a proper office scanner with automated feeding. In short: great “get it done” tool for light-to-moderate, occasional use—less convincing as a primary scanner for heavy document processing.

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