The Scanshell 1000B offers a user-friendly, ultra-compact solution for scanning and gathering information from a variety of ID card types. This flat-bed card scanner is perfect for capturing images and text data from driver's licenses, passports, business cards and more.Connect to Scanshell 1000 to any standard USB port. Because the scanner is a bus-powered USB device, there's no need for an external power supply. It uses a CIS (contact image sensor) to offer color, grayscale and black and white scanning, and an optical resolution of 600 dpi.Thanks to optical character recognition technology (OCR), the Scanshell 1000 is capable of capturing images as well as text data during the card-scanning process. The included idScan software offers an intuitive platform for gathering information from both card sides, and can quickly export images and data to other applications. It can also read barcodes and magnetic stripes.