Intro:
The Fujitsu Scansnap S500 is a 600 dpi x 600 dpi, enterprise scanner.Compared to other enterprise scanners on the market, it is midpriced at around $420.
Noteworthy Features:
Comes with Adobe acrobat 7.0 standard, ScanSnap organizer 3.0, ABBYY FineReader, and CardMinder 3.0 software, which is somewhat more favorable than some similarly priced scanners.
Weaker Features:
None noted, given available product data.
Suitability:
An enterprise scanner, suited for high-volume document scanning.This scanner can handle legal (8.5 in x 14 in) documents.
Value:
Overall, this scanner's features are as expected for this price.
5 out of 10 - Average The Avg rating is based on one major problem
This is really not a review of the scanner, rather it is an alert to very large file sizes when ...
This is really not a review of the scanner, rather it is an alert to very large file sizes when compared to other scanners. One test file scanned in B&W 200 dpi created a 1.4 meg PDF on the ScanSnapbut only a 480,000k on a cheap Brother 7820N - seevral other tests had the Fujitsu creating files that were at least 2 times larger than other scanners created. That is unacceptable performance.
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by PSSnyder (see profile) -
June 14, 2006
9 out of 10 - Spectacular The Best Document Scanner EVER!
I've had this scanner about 2 months now, and it's been my best office investment. This bad baby ...
I've had this scanner about 2 months now, and it's been my best office investment. This bad baby is SUPER FAST with documents! It works surprising well with photos as well to convert to jpeg. I initially called Fujitsu before buying and asked about photos and I was assured it would work (not much is mentioned about photos with this scanner). I've been very happy with this scanner. It has allowed me to work to achieve a paperless office by scanning in receipts, contracts, and other forms to archive on a separate hard drive for safekeeping. I use this in conjunction with Quicken H&B 2007 to scan in my receipts daily to their program. It's super easy way to eliminate files of receipts, while at the same time complying with IRS guidelines.
The OCR software is very accurate. I was hesitant to use it based upon past use of OCR technology, but it has really come up! This allows me to save time from typing in documents that I have hard copies of.
My only gripe (which isn't really one, I knew this going in) that there's no option to scan from a book or magazine. Simple solution: I bought a $99 personal copier and whenever I need to do this (which is every blue moon), I can copy it and scan it (I needed a copier anyway, so it works out).
3 out of 10 - Poor This is NOT Twain compatible so you cannot append in Acrobat
This is a perfect little scanner EXCEPT that it is not Twain compliant so you cannot append / add pages to ...
This is a perfect little scanner EXCEPT that it is not Twain compliant so you cannot append / add pages to Adobe Acrobat files - Tech Support said you have to get the two seperate files and merge them - not very efficient. I am exchanging for the 5110C
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by countingman (see profile) -
September 25, 2006
9 out of 10 - Spectacular High quality and amazing scanner
I have owned several flatbed scanners over the years, now my latest is shoved to the back- this scanner has ...
I have owned several flatbed scanners over the years, now my latest is shoved to the back- this scanner has improved my productivity tenfold- the multiple sheets, duplex scan, automatic straightening, rotation, color vs lineart selection, and ability to take receipts and business cards up to documents longer than legal sized are all things that make this a joy to use.
With the OCR text embedded into the PDF files, and the inclusion of Acrobat 7, this is really a great package. I use Copernic desktop search to make all the files indexed, and I can get at anything within a second.
I found that I eliminated paper jams by slightly fanning the stacks so that I could see the page edges as I inserted the stack. It now easliy takes 60 page documents and scans them at copy machine rates. It's amazing to watch.
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by Jamie-Murdock (see profile) -
September 24, 2006
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
9 out of 10 - Spectacular Keep It Simple Stupid
For the money, this scanner rocks. They follow K-I-S-S or Keep It Simple Stupid technology. Push the green button and ...
For the money, this scanner rocks. They follow K-I-S-S or Keep It Simple Stupid technology. Push the green button and it scans. Set your profiles for what you are scanning and it automatically adjusts. 1 or 2-sided, color or no color or auto-color for a mixed feed, auto rotate or as fed, and a lot more. I scan documents, reports, cancelled checks and more and it does it all. If you get a jam, of which there are very, very few (and mostly my fault since I forget to remove a staple), it is stupidly easy to open and un-jamb. The thing is small, like a loaf of bread. The only bummer so far is that when you create OCR docs, it scans them fast but takes a l-o-n-g time to software them into read/write format. It is a software issue, not a scanner issue, I think. But the OCR is pretty bloody accurate. I have used many scanners. If you need to go paperless and want a good document scanner (not good for photos or weird shaped pieces, you need a flatbed scanner for that stuff) this thing should be your #1 choice for what you get for the $$.
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by Frogman800 (see profile) -
May 12, 2007
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