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Many portable scanners also come with optical character recognition software. This allows you to scan printed documents and store them in a digital format that you can easily edit later on. The files that you create with OCR software can also later be opened with your choice of word processing software. Portable scanner of the sheetfed variety is also particularly useful if you typically have to scan several documents at a time. Many of these devices are quite small and very portable, typically weighing less than a pound.