Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for PC
by Fujitsu Imaging
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Customer Review: Never Thought I'd Be This Excited About a Scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw a commercial for some scanner that would help scan in all your paper and de-clutter your life. I read some reviews of it and was not too impressed. Those reviews did lead me to this scanner, which I purchased.
The reviews said the Scansnap was fast, but I was still impressed when I hooked it up and started scanning.
In just the first few days of ownership, I scanned several thousand pages that were cluttering my desk, inbox, and filing cabinets. I still have a long way to go, but I know the scansnap is up to the task.
The Scansnap manager works well and I am pleased with it.
Everyone has different needs, but I'll give some other feedback/suggestion based on mine. I need for many of my scanned documents to be fully searchable, so I need every page to be processed for OCR. You have two options to do this. Scansnap manager can do the OCR automatically after the scan is finished, or you can go in later with Acrobat and use its OCR function on the PDF. Since OCR slows down the scanning process and because I think Acrobat's OCR cleans the document up better, I prefer to do lots of scanning first and the OCR later. While there is the extra step of opening the files in Acrobat, I think it is worth it both because I believe Acrobat does it better and because I can kind of be in "scan mode" and feed/scan in a bunch of documents first, then go in later and let Acrobat do the OCR in the background while I do other work.
The build quality, except for the tab that slides up and down at the top of the feeder, is first rate.
If you need to scan a lot of documents, this scanner if worth every penny.
Customer Review: Everything they said it was- big scanner in a little body.
Summary: 5 Stars
I needed a portable, super-high quality scanner for our tax/bookkeeping business and digitizing my home records. After about a month of research, I chose the ScanSnap. It's an investment-type price, but it's worth it. Everything you need comes in the box, and the install is very easy/fast- I've got it installed on both of my desktops and my laptop. I go to client's homes and scan in multiple years' worth of receipts, check carbon copies, invoices, and other tax documents at a time. The ScanSnap is small enough to carry with me or leave on my desk (the footprint is about the size of a half-sheet of legal paper) since it folds up so nicely. It's super fast, and the color and B/W scans come out incredibly clear- even wrinkled, faded receipts come out clear and readable. Since it scans both sides of the page, it cuts the time in half. The organizer is pretty good so far, I'm still learning the software. Overall, I couldn't be happier with this machine.
**I would recommend buying the carrying case and some extra carrier sheets, they're really convenient to have when you have super wrinkled, or oddly shaped papers. **
Others have complained about jamming issues, but the only time I've had a jam is when I first started using it and I put too many receipts in at one time- it grabbed multiples at once. If you feed them one after another, (its easy to do) or just use a carrier sheet, this doesn't happen. Just pay attention while you're scanning, and use common sense, you'll be fine. I scan for several hours at a time without a break, and have had no problems. I love this thing, and HIGHLY recommend it.
Customer Review: This thing is great!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I accidentally found this product by studying the Amazon location for a competitor's product. I noticed that other people who had visited the site I was at had bought this Fujitsu scanner instead and had rated it highly, so I checked it out. Am I ever glad I did. After reading a number of reviews, I decided to purchase it. I liked it so well, that within a few days, I also bought the Apple version for my wife.
I have been wishing for years that I had the capability to create a pdf file from an original document and email it to someone else. Other people I knew who had this capability obtained it via high-end copiers that cost at least hundreds of dollars per month to rent. I did not want it that badly, so made copies of such documents and then transmitted them through the regular mail.
The capability I obtained with this product is infinitely better than mailing xerox copies.
Also, it allows me to do several things using the included full version of Acrobat 9 software that are really useful. For example, I recently made multiple pdf files of different items (an insurance application, some data that had to be sent in with it, and a check for the first month's premium), and then combined them into a single new pdf file. For another example, I can take many other types of files (an Excel file, for instance) and turn them into pdf files with a single command. This makes it possible to, for example, email an Excel spreadsheet to someone who would not be able to open it, because they do not have the Excel program on their computer. Virtually everyone has the capability to open a pdf file.
Customer Review: Changed My Company! Should have bought it years ago.
Summary: 5 Stars
I had looked at this scanner or one of its cousins several years ago. Around the time that neat desk product came out. I had a neat receipts scanner in the past that had very clunky software and I was hesitant to by anymore of their products. I began to investigate the Scansnap line, and saw thousands (I did not read them all :) ) of reviews on all different sites saying how amazing the product is. They are right. We run a property management company and had begun a paperless switch over about 3 years ago with an HP multi print-copy-scan-fax machine...network scan and errors were a contstant hang up. With the scan snap it would have been a reality within 30 days to scan what we needed and continue to scan incoming documents. We wasted so much time, and we all know time=money. The only thing I noticed, and I did not give enough time to read all the instructions was the business card scanner....one at a time no problem...a stack consistently got jammed. Other than that we have literally scanned thousands of documents in the last 30 days without issue. The software is great too. You can easily scan a stack of different types of documents and then drag and drop for document separation or insert other scan documents into another document. This scanner can convert scans through OCR (optical character recognition) into editable formats like word. ...overall just an amazing product...look at youtube videos to see it in action. I am a real person and I have no affiliation with this company or product. .Customer Review: Fast and Clear Scans
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought one scanner for my office in July it worked so well that I bought another one the next month. The scans are so clear and the unit straightens up any pages which may feed a little skewed. It is true in operation to what it manufacturer states concerning dropping in different size documents and it takes care of straighting and re sizing. I have put in receipts with 8.5X10 documents and 8.5X14 some front only some front and back and it knows how to treat them all straighting each and skipping blank back pages as well as picking up double sided documents. The scansnap filing system is great for filing scanned documents on the fly. I have yet to have a misfeed and I have scanned some 500 documents my coworker has scanned about 1500 and her office is much more organized. The best part it scans both front and back with one pass and it knows to ignore blank pages. However the scan ocr character recognition when scanning to word is a little tricky. The original document must be clear. I have found that this works better with Word 2007 than with earlier versions of word. I have recommended this scanner to several of my colleagues. Our CPA had an older model Fujitsu scanner and loved ours so much that he plans to get this one as well. He liked the small footprint when folded up it measures about 9.5" X 5" and folds up for easy transporting as well as keeping dust out of the unit. I love it I plan to get one more for our office and I might just get one for my home as well.