Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner by Fujitsu Imaging
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Digital camera reviews of Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner
Digital camera Review: Amazing Paper Management/Productivity Tool!
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone out there who, like me, tends to accumulate a lot of paper needs to beg, borrow, or steal to get their hands on this baby. I've had it exactly a week today, and it's already had a huge impact on my life. I've had one of those "milk crates" sitting in my office, stuffed full of papers I wanted to keep or scan using my flatbed scanner for several months. I would make a dent in it every so often, but certainly never emptied it. With the ScanSnap, I finished it in under one week.
The scanner is a lot smaller than it looks in the pictures - takes up very little room when closed, and not much more when opened fully. It was simple as can be to hook up - install the bundled software, plug in the power and USB cords, and you're in business! It has worked like a dream since scan #1 and I am finding the ScanSnap Organizer software adequate for my needs.
I'm fine 90% of the time with the simple PDF format, but the OCR/searchable PDF settings have worked just fine also with the software I already had installed. the scan quality at Normal/Fastest is still clear enough for most things I want to save, and even when I've changed the setting to Best Quality a few times, the scan was still pretty fast.
As most people have noted, the scanner does not have TWAIN support, which was my only concern pre-ordering this, as I am pretty attached to my Nuance PaperPort software. But I haven't missed it at all. PaperPort can still view, organize annotate, and edit the ScanSnap PDFs just fine. I just allow PaperPort a view into the new folder and voila! The PDF format is just so universal these days, that I just don't think it's an issue. If the ScanSnap's output was a proprietary format, my opinion might be different, but you just cannot argue with 1. place papers to be scanned in tray, 2. Hit big green button to scan. 3. Throw newly scanned papers away. Open PDF in whatever program you want to use to edit, annotate, etc.
I have had minimal trouble with papers jamming and when it did happen, I could easily see why - paper had a tear I didn't see, a stray staple got stuck, etc. The rollers do slip and make a squealing sound on glossy paper sometimes. I have had maybe 2-3 instances of the scanner pulling through more than one page at a time, and again, I could usually see why this happened. More user-error than the fault of this wonderful invention!
Another big-time bonus for me -- when scanning with my flatbed through PaperPort, that software holds the scans in a temp file somewhere until you have scanned your whole batch. You also have to scan a blank page between each set of pages to separate articles. On more than one occasion, I have scanned a pile of magazine articles or something into PaperPort, made sure all my blanks were in place, and hit the "Finished Scanning" button, only to have it freeze up on me and lose EVERY single page. I have yet to find where those temp files might be (if anywhere) to try and salvage them when this happens. I'd resorted to scanning only about 20 pages at a time before letting it do its thing stacking and dividing. Definitely slowed me down even more than scanning one page at a time with a flatbed should take.
But that has all changed. The ScanSnap is the tool I have been waiting for to help me FINALLY finish my office decluttering. It is truly amazing, and if any of what I've said rings true for you, you NEED this scanner. It's not a luxury - it's a necessity!
Digital camera Review: Amazing Performance in a VEry Small Package
Summary: 5 Stars
I just purchased this scanner and it's amazing, when I opened the box I was surprised how small and lite it was, installation was simple, however I didn't really like the organizer software but I never really needed it anyway.
If you need a fast document scanner then get this one.
Digital camera Review: Amazing machine
Summary: 5 Stars
This little scanner amazingly does what it advertises, unlike many gadgets on the market. And it does it very fast. If you value your time this scanner is the one to get to go paperless. One con: the lowest setting gives poor OCR (for searching). However, the next highest setting is nearly as fast and works well. Bought at web best price from Ctistore and had nary a problem.Digital camera Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
It is so quick and easy to scan documents and then decide where and what to do with them. Multiple documents scan in moments rather than opening a typical scanner and setting each page separately. As a realtor, with lots of documents to share, I love my Scansnap!Digital camera Review: Awesome Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this product. I have been trying to convert my office to paperless for years, but with my Epson flatbed scanner and autofeed attachment, it just took forever and was very painful. Scanning both sides of a document was very tricky, since you needed to turn the whole stack of paper around and pray that it would not skip a page, then everything else would be off. The ScanSnap is awesome.
I had the scanner now about 4 weeks and have scanned over 2000 pages, with no problems. From business cards, to greeting cards, to average papers. If you use the guides to get the paper aligned it will work perfectly. My Epson would often pull in multiple pages for a scan, the ScanSnap has done this only twice so far, which is a fantastic rate. When I have a minute I gather up 50 to 100 pages and depending on the folder structure with a press of a button they are archived within minutes.
For weird pieces you can use the scan envelope that comes with the scanner. I have not scanned any pictures with it since the resolution may not be as good, in addition I still have my Epson around. And besides that it is a document scanner.
You sure can't beat the conversion to searchable documents for rapid finding of information.
The install went ok, wasn't the fastest since there were a bunch of components to install. But you usually only install it once. I am working on Vista and have not encountered any problems nor interference with any other hardware/drivers.
In all, worth every penny if you want to scan lots of documents.