Features:

• Integrated Type II CF card and scanner plugs into the Type II CompactFlash slot of Windows Powered P
• Uses an advanced SE-824 Class 1 laser scanner engine from Symbol Technologies
• Automatically decodes the most popular bar code symbologies including UPC/EAN, Code 39, Code 128, MS

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
The CFSC 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. Just plug the card into your Windows Powered Pocket PC, launch Socket's SocketScan keyboard emulation software, and read bar code data into any Windows program. Fuzzy logic technology enables the reading of damaged or poorly printed bar codes. Bar code scanning is the most efficient way to enter data into a computer. If the data to be entered is bar coded, using a laser scanner is 50 times faster and 10, 000 times more accurate than manual data entry. And it only takes one hand!

Rating : - 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.