<p>Portable duplex scanners usually come with a price premium attached, but Canon's little P-208 offers this and more for a lot less than the competition. What's more, this compact scanner trumps lighter simplex scanners by cramming in a 10-page ADF.</p><p>At 600g, the P-208 is almost twice the weight of Brother's compact simplex scanner, the DSMobile 600, but the payoff is versatility. The Canon's ADF might comprise of nothing more than a couple of flimsy linked arms protruding from the flip-down front panel, but it still manages to feed documents effectively.</p><p>The P-208 also has another handy trick up its sleeve: flick the rear switch to the Auto-Start position and it appears as a USB storage drive on the host PC. Run the CaptureOnTouch Lite app directly from the drive, and you can use the scanner without loading any drivers whatsoever. This means you can whip out your scanner at a moment's notice and scan documents directly to a client's system without leaving a software footprint.</p><p>The Lite version of the software is limited to scanning to a local folder and choosing from PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PPTX or BMP formats. To get support for scanning to email, Google Drive, EverNote and Microsoft SharePoint, you'll need to install the main CaptureOnTouch app plus the scanner drivers.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/scanners/385789/canon-imageformula-p-208">Keep reading...</a></p>