Autonomous portable scanners

System comprising a battery-powered portable scanner and a terminal, the scanner comprising:

• a hand-held scanning unit for scanning documents and forming digital representations thereof, said scanning unit adapted to be manually moved over a document by a user for the scanning operation;
• a processor, communicatively connected to the scanning unit and provided for controlling the scanning operation;
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• a plurality of embedded storage capabilities which are communicatively connected to the processor and each provide a storage medium for storing the digital representations of documents upon being scanned by said scanning unit;
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• a wireless connection means, communicatively connected to the processor and provided for connecting the storage media to said terminal and for transferring the stored digital representations to the terminal, the wireless connection means comprising a wireless communication means, in particular by radio;
• wherein the processor is performing the following steps in sequence:
• i) an autonomous scanning and sorting operation of the scanner without connection to said terminal, wherein said scanning unit is operated to scan at least one document and the digital representation of the scanned at least one document is sorted towards and stored in a first of said storage media, said sorting being based on user-defined rules, the user-defined rules on which the sorting is based comprise a document type and/or size;
• ii) establishing a connection to said terminal, wherein said wireless connection means is operated to connect said first storage medium to said terminal;
• iii) transferring the stored digital representation, wherein said wireless communication means is operated for transferring the stored digital representation from said first storage medium to said terminal.