Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner
by Fujitsu Imaging
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Customer Review: This scanner is wonderful, beyond belief
Summary: 5 Stars
I save every piece of paper that comes in the mail or crosses my desk. I have phone bills dating back to when I first got a phone line, and that was quite some years ago -- we won't go into exactly how many. With the stacks and boxes of paper accumulating, and the filing cabinets overflowing, I decided that the only way out was to scan things to PDF and shred them.
I quickly learned that scanning double-sided, multi-page bank statements using a cheap flatbed scanner was going to relegate me to paper purgatory for the rest of my life.
When I found the ScanSnap, I was overjoyed. Not only does it scan both sides of each page in one pass, not only does it have a multi-sheet feeder that rarely misfires, not only does it scan documents into PDF format, but it makes the PDFs searchable, thanks to an excellent OCR software package that comes with the scanner.
Pros:
- Lightning fast scanning (pages go through the scanner very quickly)
- OCR software is great
- Save as PDF, import into Word or PowerPoint with the click of your mouse
- Compact design means it takes up very little space on your desk
- Very easy to clear jams or misfeeds when they occur
Cons:
- Sometimes mis-feeds when processing a large stack of paper
- Cannot handle different-size sheets within the same batch
- Post-processing is slow (your mileage will vary depending on your computer, but it takes the software on my computer a good 20 minutes to post-process a 15-page scan before I can save it to PDF)
Overall, this scanner is a truly remarkable piece of technology and I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to go paperless.
Customer Review: More than expected
Summary: 4 Stars
This scanner far exceeds my expectation and I never expected it to do photos as well as it does. I purchased this with the intent of using it as a document scanner for archiving bills, contracts etc which it does very well. Reading reviews about how photos are too stiff for it did not stop me from purchasing this as I have a high end Epson flatbed photo scanner for that purpose. Well turns out the scansnap s510 zips through photos flawlessly. The scans are about 90% as good as the 32 bit dedicated photo scanner which is really pretty amazing. I am about half way though scanning a book case of old photo albums. Over 1600 photos so far and the only two Jams I had is when I put in too fat a stack of photos so the stack did not make it to the pickup roller. No way would I do this one by one on a flat bed! What is really amazing is some of these photos came off the old sticky glue type albums where the photo pages are one big sheet of adhesive with a plastic cover and the photos all but tore getting them out (most lost 1/2 -2/3 the paper thickness to the stickum); even these went through! I don't know how many years the old prints would last till they are to faded to use but it sure is nice to have the old photos join the ranks of my newer digital photos
Only reason I didn't give it a 5 is it would be nice to have multiple programmable scan buttons rather than one programmable button. The software is nice and makes it easy to control the function of that button but it would be nice to have separate buttons for preprogrammed profiles like document, photo, send to printer, and send to email.
Last thing, I am shocked how well the OCR function works when it makes PDFs
Customer 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.
Customer Review: amazing little scanner
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of people have said that it can only scan to PDFs, but if you set the color option to Color, JPEG becomes an option for the file format.
In a few weeks, I turned a filing cabinet of papers, business cards and receipts into PDFs, and it was so satisfying that I'm trying to find more things to scan now.
The interface seemed restrictive at first since I was used to a flatbed scanner with Twain, but I got used to it too. Once I defined different modes for receipts, business cards, etc., all I had to do was switch between them, put a stack of things in the ADF and press the big green button. I could leave for a few minutes, come back and find a searchable PDF in the folder where I wanted it.
I have had a few problems with jams, but they have all occured with papers that had a lot of creases in them. There is a simple latch that opens up the scanner, freeing any jammed papers. The only complaint I have regarding jams is that when I load a piece of paper that is longer than about 15 inches, the scanner stops and displays the error message indicating a jam. It would be nice to be able to scan arbitrarily long pages, but this is almost never an issue.
My only other complaints are that (1) you can't arbitrarily set the resolution of the scan. Your options are something like "ok," "good," "better," and "best;" also, (2) if you choose to create searchable PDFs, the OCR runs after the scanning is done, and you can't continue scanning until it is done. This is a minor inconvenience, but it seems to be an unnecessary one.
Overall, I am as satisfied with this scanner as I have ever been with a piece of technology.
Customer Review: INCREDIBLE BOON FOR SMALL BUSINESS OF ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING TO DECENTRALIZE
Summary: 5 Stars
This little gem helped me exit a clinical psychology practive of 25 years last Spring of 2007. Amazon had the best price, and I got an added warranty from the mfr. Like a fool, I waited until the very end of my business life only to find out I had to retain many, many records. What saved me was buying this machine, then hiring my office manager's daughter for three weeks to feed documents through it - about 1/3 of the 3,800 pounds of confidential clinical and financial records I sent to the shredder. Now I am going to use it go get rid of an attic of paperwork. The full Adobe software works flawlessly. The paper feeds very nicely and handles some items I did not think would go through.
ONE LITTLE TIP: For scanning small groups or batches of paper that are stapled, I did not bother to take the staple out, as that process creates wrinkles. Just become adept at snipping off the stapled corner of the whole batch of sheets with some heavy-duty shears (I replaced several of these) and you don't usually lose anything worth keeping. If you have stapled groups of papers in the same file folder, this trick cuts down on time to scan several hundred percent.
ANOTHER TIP: You can use this machine to back up everything on paper that you really want to keep.
ANOTHER TIP: Tonight I used Adobe to sent three receipts via email, because I can use the Adobe to create a pdf file and email it in two or three minutes, no xeroxing or extra hard copy.
In short, if you are wanting to scan and store or send a lot of paperwork - even to the point of many hundreds of pounds, this scanner does an amazing job. And I clean it minimally.