scanning for idiots | Scansnap S500M Clr Dupl Scanner (Mac Version)

And I never looked back... | Scansnap S500M Clr Dupl Scanner (Mac Version)

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	• Scansnap S500M Clr Dupl Scanner (Mac Version) Fujitsu Imaging Fujitsu Imaging average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Works as advertised

I've had the ScanSnap 500m for a few months now. It works as advertised. Scans both sides of my documents quickly, even on "best" quality. It's easy to use to, just insert the paper and push a button and it goes into a PDF that I can edit later. I took a star off because it doesn't support TWAIN so you are stuck with the basic scanning software that comes with it, but once it is in a PDF file most any OCR software will read it and use it. I've found that ABYY Finereader is the best at OCRring, wish they made a Mac version. Anyways, the scanner's great.

scanning for idiots

Very easy to set up, and very easy to use. It is very fast. It exceeded my expectations.

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And I never looked back...

This product was something that I had wanted to try and that I had really believed in, but was unsure of. It was expensive, and I wasn't convinced I would use it enough, or that it would do all it said. I bought it after installing Devon Think Pro, and the two products work wonderfully well together.

Other reviews mention slow OCR, but I have frankly had great luck with the OCR. We recently got married and I took all contracts, pictures, diagrams, napkins, ideas, etc. and scanned them in. When I needed to reference something, I just typed in a quick search term and jumped right to all of the places it occurred in my docs. Now all of my bills, invoices, receipts, ideas, etc. wind up in there. Devon Think allows you to also create your own notes, docs, and link to other files of many different formats, so that you can easily bridge the electronic and printed world.

It is easily the best money I have spent on organizing my life; as essential as a hard drive.

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Scansnap S500M

Back in the PC days, there was a product called a Visioneer scanner. It's come back now, but alas, it still does not work with a Mac. That is why I was interested in this product, even though the price is much higher than the original Visioneer.

The Scansnap turned out to be worth every penny. It is fast and accurate, and the included Adobe Acrobat works extremely well with it. The ability to scan both sides simultaneously really is an advantage.

There is an occasional glitch when it feeds 2 pages at a time, but the software allows easy recovery, either during or after the scan. This product is highly recommended!

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Beware if you plan to OCR

I just purchased the newer version of this scanner, the S5210M. I did so reluctantly because I have switched to a Mac and my wonderful Canon DR-5380c scanner isn't supported. It won't even work with Windows running under Fusion.

The S510M is very nice mechanically. It's small (though not particularly attractive) and its scanning operation is smooth, quiet, fast and accurate. The problem is that the OCR is done as a separate pass in software, using the ABBYY Finescan software included. The OCR process takes approximately six times as long as scanning the document! A 28 page document scans in about 45 seconds, but takes five additional minutes to OCR. And if you're not careful with the settings, the resulting OCR file will be several times the size of the original (The documentation is very vague about the settings, so you have to set them by trial and error). I just scanned a 100 page document in under 4 minutes, but it required an additional 20 minutes to run through the OCR engine. The Canon scanner performs OCR in hardware in a single pass that is as fast or faster than the Fujitsu's scan only.

If you, like I, plan to scan stacks of documents into searchable archives, it would be an incredibly slow process. You can drag files to the OCR engine later, but there doesn't seem to be any way to batch them and let them run overnight, for example. Mine may be going up on ebay soon.

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ScanSnap S500M defines the Fujitsu way that an efficient document scanner for the office professional's personal every-day use should look like. Now for the first time simple high quality scanning of typical office documents is becoming available within the Macintosh environment, without the burden of additional work. ScanSnap S500M uses a specially developed method of driving the scanning device. Actually, the "normal" scanning process is totally reversed.Using ScanSnap S500M you just insert a stack of paper and press a button to initiate the scan process. This will automatically create and store a PDF file and hand it over to Adobe Acrobat. Utilizing the OCR functionality of the full version of Acrobat that is included within the ScanSnap S500M package, this scanned document can even be converted to a fully searchable PDF file. Since all this is achieved within seconds to a visibly high quality standard, any user will utilize this scanner every single day when office documents need to be transformed into an electronic format. Instantly, even piles of document on top of office desks begin to vanish.

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