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: Better than I expected
Summary: 4 Stars
I have a love/hate relationship with technology and most of the items work barely like they are supposed to. This item however, seems to work as advertised.
I have only had this for <10 hours and I have scanned 590 pages of items. You could say I went crazy with it, and I would agree. I figured it is the best way to break it in.
This thing takes up very little space on the desk and is FAST! I have a flat bed all in one, and it takes about 1 minute per side. This thing I could throw a stack of items in and try and remove a staple from the next stack, and it would be done by the time I got the staple removed.
It works great for scanning all the items in a folder and just archiving them as a single PDF.
The software could use some improvements. It would be great if it supported drag and drop of PDFs into other PDFs or pages of a PDF into pages of another. I guess that is where Acrobat 8.0 comes in. I have yet to try it out.
As far as scanning business cards go, I think this item kind of stinks for it, unless they are really thin and cheap cards. The thicker/nicer cards had to almost be forced through.
As far as misfeeds go, in the 590 items I scanned I probably had 10-12, and some were due to me not knowing how the machine pulls stuff.
I wonder if they could have made one w/out Acrobat and charged like $100 less.
So far I am really happy. I now need to destroy about 450 of those 590 pages, so a paper shredder may be on my next thing to buy. I am looking forward to scanning all of my tax related items this year!
I am interested to see how it holds up over time.
Digital camera Review: Bought one for business, then bought one for home
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought one for a construction office where they needed to scan and send 20 to 30 page PDFs up to the main office every few days. The first scanner we bought sucked. Pages took for ever and the file size was huge (20 megs +). Then we bought the Scansnap. It has met our expectations. Fast, easy to use and it comes with a full version of Acrobat ($200+ value). After it performed flawlessly on the job site for the past four months, I treated myself to one as a Christmas present. I am running Vista on my home computer and after downloading the Vista driver all was fine. I am very happy with my purchase.Digital camera Review: Busily scanning in a medical office for over a year
Summary: 5 Stars
This scanner has been busily scanning thousands, yes thousands, of insurance EOB's onto a server for permanent archiving instead of saving assorted size papers. It has been wonderful to use and very few problems. I probably scan about 100-200 pieces/day with it. It doesn't do ID cards very well so I have a fi-6130 waiting in the wings to be installed for front desk insurance and ID card scanning. The carrier sheet that came with it almost 2 years ago is still going strong but a little marked up with ink from making notes on receipts before scanning. I do wish there were an easier way to switch between color scanning (business receipts, copies of statements with stamps, etc.) and B/W with OCR for searchable archiving of PDF's. I'm anxious to order an S1500 and see how it performs compared to this workhorse.Digital camera Review: Clean up your office. Never loose mail.
Summary: 4 Stars
PROS:I'm a Pharmacist and we use something similar to this scanner for prescription capture. This thing is faster. Very useful for home use too. Paper mail, magazines (cutting the bindings), and other documents get scanned. Google desktop indexes(download). If I need to find some info, I search what every word I can remember. Boom! There it is. I hate my filing cabinet. I love this.
CONS: No Twain drivers and doesn't work on Windows Home Server.
Digital camera Review: Completely satisified.
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of the reviews have it right. There are some minor flaws, but overall this is a great product. If you can find their main site, watch the video and see a demonstration.
It's fast. There are four levels of quality for scanning: Normal, Better, Best, and Excellent. I don't know why they rate "Excellent" as faster than "Best." But still, I usually scan at "Best" and it's a good speed and quality scan.
I don't see why their cleaning kit is necessary. I use Windex Glass Wipes and that does the trick. Watch the glass because over time, some ink and dust buildup will cause scan lines. If you see strange lines in your images, then you should check for that buildup and use the wipes to clean the glass.
I can go more than a thousand sheets (50 sheet stacks each) without a jam by fanning the pages like they show in the manual. I pinch one end of a stack, slide the other end along my finger so the sheets "staircase on edge" -if you can understand that. Then I pinch the staircased end while loosening the other grip. And I gently place them in and they're off. It's so easy. But some paper will take better than others.