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My ancient HP scanner (actually, it wasn't that ragged) died a few months ago and it was time for me to secure a fresh one. I accidently came across the predecessor to the ScanScap S1500 (the S510) last week while I was having my taxes done and was amazed at the run and compactness of it. My tax person also gave it pretty reviews. As I wasn't aware that Fujitsu manufactured scanners, I concept I'd do a minute research which led me to reviews of the S510 here on Amazon. Rather amazingly, I was very surprised to get that the S510 had so many extraordinarily high reviews (something that I don't acquire I near across too often, especially with items such as scanners) . One of those reviews mentioned that a current model (this one - the S1500) had honest been released by Fujitsu. After some more research (it wasn't yet listed on Amazon), I found that this scanner was available and that it had many original features. As it turns out, I was the "first kid on my block" to rep one and I'm gratified I did! This machine is fabulous!
The accelerate is absolutely blinding - an unbelievable 20 pages per runt but, because it scans both sides of a page at the same time, double sided documents scan at 40 PAGES PER Exiguous! Wow! As with previous models, this scanner is very petite and appears to be well built: it's quite heavy for its shrimp size and fits very nicely on my minute computer desk. The scanning quality is equally spectacular - it scans up to 600 dpi in color, grayscale, and shadowy and white and mine came with a suited assortment of software (Adobe Acrobat 9, Rack2-Filer, and ABBYY FineReader) . It scans documents beautifully! While I've been too busy scanning the billions of pieces of paper that have cluttered my life for years (this scanner will actually do that expeditiously and efficiently - something I've always fair dreamed would be possible), I haven't yet tried to scan photos; I suspect that this scanner will do a grand job but that another type of scanner would probably do better for archival purposes) .
The only problems I've had were with Acrobat (I already have Acrobat 9 Pro on my computer) - I found that importing previously scanned documents into Rack2-filer were always listed in reverse order (ugh!) and Fujitsu tech succor replicated the plight. They suggested, however, that I completely uninstall (not honest repair) Acrobat and reinstall it. That did the job. BTW, I received tremendous tech help from Fujitsu.
One though-provoking thing is that this scanner does not advance with TWAIN drivers. Because of this, it is not possible to consume it to the same extent as other scanners. Objective the same, my reason for getting this scanner was to build .pdf files and this scanner does it like no other.
Overall, I'm thrilled with the Fujitsu S1500 - there is no demand that it is the best one I've had (and I've had many) and is well worth the money (the S1500 is also the most expensive scanner I've ever purchased) . I would recommend this to anyone who needs to scan documents.
I have never had a dedicated document scanner before. In the past, I archaic the Auto-document feeder on my all-in-one printer/scanner/fax machines to scan documents into adobe acrobat. That meant for each batch of papers, I needed to space the color/resolution/paper size/quality settings and then work through Acrobat in order to put each file. It worked, but it was boring going.
Then I bought this modern scansnap 1500, based on the ratings of the earlier model (the scansnap 510) . I installed only the main program to my computer (the software also includes OCR programs, organizational programs, and acrobat 9, which I already have) . I curved up the scanner and stuck in a stack of frail notes I took from some college courses--some notes were in color, some were b&w, some on two sides, some on one side, and some of the pages were upside down. I hit the only button on the machine (SCAN), and to my sheer amazement, it started flying through the stack of notes without any additional prompts or anxiety. It then automatically saved my file as a pdf--all of the pages were in order, color pages were in color, b&w pages were in b&w, etc. The only articulate I noticed was that if there were any marks whatsoever on the help side of my brand papers, it included those blank pages in the file.
I repeated this process with any papers I could derive my hands on. I even tried sticking in papers of varying sizes, and it sped through them all without a pickle. I am officially crooked. (In a moment of either stupidity or genius, I sliced the spine off of an broken-down book and scanned that in too.)
I did stare a few things that are worth mentioning specifically: 1) This scanner is powerful smaller than it looks. I was expecting something the size of a inkjet printer, but it is actually about the size of a loaf of bread. 2) You have to space the papers GENTLY into the scanner or it will spot. If I push the papers in too far, it pulls through several pages at a time and the software warns you to commence over. 3) I am running the software on Windows 7 RC1, so I can explain you that, at least in my case, it will work on Win7.
i really like this scanner. it does a expansive job of fair being simple and functional.
things i like:
duplex scanning
automatic blank page removal (useful for duplex scanning single sided pages)
includes pudgy Adobe Acrobat
OCR
initiate from scanner. you don't need to initiate from the pc
specialized biz card scanner - it identifies addresses, phone numbers, email, etc
auto-rotate & straighten - doesn't matter how you scan the sheet, it fixes the rotation for you.
things i don't like:
paper feeder errors out frequently - it's easy to dilemma the feeder or pull more than one page. This is the single most frustrating thing about it.
limited paper feeder - if i feed more than 10 sheets at a time, i have a very high chance of jamming the feeder.
biz card scanner ocr gets company names sinful more often than not.
overall though, i'm level-headed resplendent ecstatic with this scanner.
