Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner
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I've owned and used a Fujitsu ScanSnap S500 Clr 18PPM/36IPM Dupl Scanner with my PC for more than a year. When I recently replaced my PC with an iMac, I budgeted for the purchase of the Scansnap S510M (the Mac-compatible Scansnap). Because I have a lot of documents to deal with, and I don't want to be without this scanner.
My S510M has already scanned, in a stunningly short time, three years' worth of personal financial documents, in time for me to take the hard copies to a local shred-a-thon event to be commercially shredded. Besides scanning documents into pdfs for archiving, I often use it to scan documents to be sent as email attachments.
"Elegant" is defined as "pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner," and of a solution to a problem as "pleasingly ingenious and simple." In both senses, the Scansnap is an elegant machine. When closed it takes up little space on my desktop, and it opens simply to display only two buttons - on/off and scan. I insert the pages
My S510M has already scanned, in a stunningly short time, three years' worth of personal financial documents, in time for me to take the hard copies to a local shred-a-thon event to be commercially shredded. Besides scanning documents into pdfs for archiving, I often use it to scan documents to be sent as email attachments.
"Elegant" is defined as "pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner," and of a solution to a problem as "pleasingly ingenious and simple." In both senses, the Scansnap is an elegant machine. When closed it takes up little space on my desktop, and it opens simply to display only two buttons - on/off and scan. I insert the pages
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I bought this scanner last month after reading many positive reviews on it by others. I use it to scan all of my clinical records into electronic format for long term storage. That is a very big job.
so far, this scanner has certainly lived up to its positive reputation. it is very fast scanning and sending scanned files to the appropriate place is a breeze. It works very well now and I hope that it will continue to work so superbly in the years to come. It was rather pricey (>$400) but once again, it appears that you get what you pay for. I would buy one again in a heart beat.
so far, this scanner has certainly lived up to its positive reputation. it is very fast scanning and sending scanned files to the appropriate place is a breeze. It works very well now and I hope that it will continue to work so superbly in the years to come. It was rather pricey (>$400) but once again, it appears that you get what you pay for. I would buy one again in a heart beat.
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Fast, fast, fast. I'm churning through scans like never before. I'm in a paper-intensive business and also have stacks of papers from graduate school that I don't refer to often but that I still want to have available "just in case." All told, I'm talking reams and reams of paper. I put a small stack on the scanner, press a button, and I'm done. That easy. I also have an HP OfficeJet PSC 6300 all-in-one with a sheet feeder. This ScanSnap puts the HP to shame in all scanning ways possible.
Here are some key points to know about the ScanSnap 510M scanner:
1) This scanner comes with the full version of Adobe Acrobat. This scanner is worth the price for that software alone. Check the price on the software and you'll agree.
2) It does photos, too. I have five shoe boxes loaded with photos. I'm digitizing everyone for back up purposes in case of fire, loss, etc. I put a small stack on board and its scans them right to iPhoto. Scans them in at 600 dpi which is fine given that
Here are some key points to know about the ScanSnap 510M scanner:
1) This scanner comes with the full version of Adobe Acrobat. This scanner is worth the price for that software alone. Check the price on the software and you'll agree.
2) It does photos, too. I have five shoe boxes loaded with photos. I'm digitizing everyone for back up purposes in case of fire, loss, etc. I put a small stack on board and its scans them right to iPhoto. Scans them in at 600 dpi which is fine given that
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This product is a dream.
I read all the reviews on this site before I made my purchase. I was interested to see if the features and benefits would stack up to my expectations.
Wow! This is the best electronic device I have purchased in years. A flatbed scanner is painfully slow campared to this. If you have a ton of papers that need to be scanned you will be amazed at how neat this device is.
It arrived in a nice big box. I took it out and installed all the software on my Apple Laptop running Leopard. Installing the software took less than 10 minutes. I connected the device to my laptop through a USB hub and started scanning. It was flawless. As fast as stated, all the features worked, I really enjoy it.
I am now cleaning out all my old files and am excited to get rid of all the paper in my office. I am also considering adding an online backup from Amazon to cover myself.
I love this thing.
I read all the reviews on this site before I made my purchase. I was interested to see if the features and benefits would stack up to my expectations.
Wow! This is the best electronic device I have purchased in years. A flatbed scanner is painfully slow campared to this. If you have a ton of papers that need to be scanned you will be amazed at how neat this device is.
It arrived in a nice big box. I took it out and installed all the software on my Apple Laptop running Leopard. Installing the software took less than 10 minutes. I connected the device to my laptop through a USB hub and started scanning. It was flawless. As fast as stated, all the features worked, I really enjoy it.
I am now cleaning out all my old files and am excited to get rid of all the paper in my office. I am also considering adding an online backup from Amazon to cover myself.
I love this thing.
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This is the second one I have purchased, and it works flawlessly. I replaced a $6,000 Canon page scanner with this and have fewer page jams than I did with the Canon. I'd highly recommend this for anyone having need of a small, fast page scanner.
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Just received the scanner this week and so far like it a lot. I spent an evening scanning hundreds of pages with no problems. Its very fast yet produces great quality scans. As others have said, this is a great tool to go paperless. Its surprisingly compact and the software is very integrated with Apple's OS. Also super easy to get started without reading any documentation (just remember to install the SW before you connect the scanner to your Mac). However, the included Adobe Acrobat Pro Software is very valuable and probably worth reading the manual for in order to get even more value from the scanner. I always read Amazon reviews and never post but thought Fujitsu deserved a few minutes of my time given the great quality of this product.
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This is the fastest scanner I have ever used. Being able to drop a stack of papers in, and not worry about it they are double-sided or not (it automatically detects and scans both sides!) is just great. The software is fine, too. Before, I used to dread scanning because it would take forever, but this scanner is faster than my fast printer. And it is tiny and looks nice. And it works perfectly with Macs, including with the latest Leopard 10.5 OS, which is more than I can say about most scanners. I can't imagine how anyone would be disappointed by it.
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This thing is amazing. My paper organization is completely divided into "before scanner" and "after scanner". I'm able to find any important document or financial statement I've received since getting the scanner; or rather - I can find the scanned version. The paper copy just goes in a big box to be stored for 7-8 years (for tax purposes).
The ScanManager software is great. It has a bunch of features, but ignore most of them. The best part is just to set it to "Scan to file" which means that it gets completely out of your way and just leaves PDF files in a folder on the disk ("Scan to folder" inexplicably makes you do a lot more work).
The included software can convert your documents to text - or more accurately add the text to the otherwise image-only PDF files. I don't use it though, it's pretty slow and makes the files A LOT bigger. For me just organizing the files by year and type ("banking", "taxes", "expense", "contracts") does the job. The scanner also comes with Adobe
The ScanManager software is great. It has a bunch of features, but ignore most of them. The best part is just to set it to "Scan to file" which means that it gets completely out of your way and just leaves PDF files in a folder on the disk ("Scan to folder" inexplicably makes you do a lot more work).
The included software can convert your documents to text - or more accurately add the text to the otherwise image-only PDF files. I don't use it though, it's pretty slow and makes the files A LOT bigger. For me just organizing the files by year and type ("banking", "taxes", "expense", "contracts") does the job. The scanner also comes with Adobe
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Well, Adobe Acrobat Professional on its own, runs about 384, and this scanner, with a free copy of Acrobat Professional, runs about 500. But outside of that, the scanner is an unreliable sheet feeder.
It has a great cold-cathode imaging light, meaning it gets solid color, great images, but it's sensitive to being banged around. When it scans, it does so effortlessly--recognizing double sided pages, and scanning both sides in an instant. The OCR software is convenient, but not pushy. You can OCR a bunch of scanned documents at a later time (as it occupies the computer).
But, the biggest problem, is double-feeding or triple-feeding pages. It has a fragile tensioner mechanism which keeps it from double feeding. As it uses a vertical/gravity feed, this piece is more important (compared with some horizontal feeders like the HP's and to a lesser extent, the Brother scanners).
The tensioner is so sensitive, that on a paper jam (the first day I used it) it became misaligned--it couldn't feed
It has a great cold-cathode imaging light, meaning it gets solid color, great images, but it's sensitive to being banged around. When it scans, it does so effortlessly--recognizing double sided pages, and scanning both sides in an instant. The OCR software is convenient, but not pushy. You can OCR a bunch of scanned documents at a later time (as it occupies the computer).
But, the biggest problem, is double-feeding or triple-feeding pages. It has a fragile tensioner mechanism which keeps it from double feeding. As it uses a vertical/gravity feed, this piece is more important (compared with some horizontal feeders like the HP's and to a lesser extent, the Brother scanners).
The tensioner is so sensitive, that on a paper jam (the first day I used it) it became misaligned--it couldn't feed
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There's only one feature that could make this a better scanner: a shredder attachment at the bottom. :)
Seriously, this machine is fast, makes great document scans (and not too shabby on images too), and its been very reliable.
We spent 3 solid weekends scanning and shredding 15 years of personal and professional documentation -- emptying 6 full file cabinet drawers! That would have taken months (years?) with our flatbed scanner.
The scanner very rarely jammed, and when it did, it was paper that was wrinkled up, too many holes from staples, or I didn't orient correctly to begin with. Occasionally, thin paper (such as carbon-less copy paper) would sometimes jam or feed multiple sheets.
For those who complain that it loses connection to the computer and they have to force-quit the application, there's a much much simpler fix: close the scanner lid and reopen it! If the scanner and software lost connection, flipping the lid fixed the issue ... every single time.
Sometimes pages
Seriously, this machine is fast, makes great document scans (and not too shabby on images too), and its been very reliable.
We spent 3 solid weekends scanning and shredding 15 years of personal and professional documentation -- emptying 6 full file cabinet drawers! That would have taken months (years?) with our flatbed scanner.
The scanner very rarely jammed, and when it did, it was paper that was wrinkled up, too many holes from staples, or I didn't orient correctly to begin with. Occasionally, thin paper (such as carbon-less copy paper) would sometimes jam or feed multiple sheets.
For those who complain that it loses connection to the computer and they have to force-quit the application, there's a much much simpler fix: close the scanner lid and reopen it! If the scanner and software lost connection, flipping the lid fixed the issue ... every single time.
Sometimes pages
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I purchased this product in a effort to eliminate large amounts of paper from my house. Apple made huge improvements to the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X Leopard, so I felt it was about time to go "paperless". A friend recommended using this scanner as a way to get documents into an electronic format quickly.
Using the S510M, I'm able to scan 100s of pages in one hour. Once scanned, I simply put them all in a single directory on my computer and use Spotlight (the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen) to find any document I need. I don't need to file them with meaningful filenames or put them into folders - Spotlight hasn't let me down yet, and it's very very fast at finding what I'm looking for.
Everything you've read in other reviews of this scanner is true. It really can scan both sides of 18 pages in 1 minute. To use Spotlight to find documents I need to use the excellent OCR software that is included, called FineReader. Depending on the amount of detail on the page,
Using the S510M, I'm able to scan 100s of pages in one hour. Once scanned, I simply put them all in a single directory on my computer and use Spotlight (the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen) to find any document I need. I don't need to file them with meaningful filenames or put them into folders - Spotlight hasn't let me down yet, and it's very very fast at finding what I'm looking for.
Everything you've read in other reviews of this scanner is true. It really can scan both sides of 18 pages in 1 minute. To use Spotlight to find documents I need to use the excellent OCR software that is included, called FineReader. Depending on the amount of detail on the page,
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It won't be any surprise, given the trend of good reviews, for me to follow suit. I am another *very* satisfied customer.
Like one of the recent reviewers, I realized you had to have the ScanSnap Manager open for the button scan to work. If you don't have it open, the LED on the scanner will flash.
It works well with the stock ABBYY FineReader, and Acrobat, as well as the DEVONthink suite, and Readiris.
Here is a question I had for you other ScanSnap owners... now that you've got this fabulous device, and have scanned up your stuff... do you have an expensive scanner collecting dust, or are you finding continued uses for it?
It seems to me, to be able to keep free from the clutter, by digitizing as much as possible, is worth the price of admission.
Like one of the recent reviewers, I realized you had to have the ScanSnap Manager open for the button scan to work. If you don't have it open, the LED on the scanner will flash.
It works well with the stock ABBYY FineReader, and Acrobat, as well as the DEVONthink suite, and Readiris.
Here is a question I had for you other ScanSnap owners... now that you've got this fabulous device, and have scanned up your stuff... do you have an expensive scanner collecting dust, or are you finding continued uses for it?
It seems to me, to be able to keep free from the clutter, by digitizing as much as possible, is worth the price of admission.
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Here's the best thing I can say -- just bought a second one so I can have one in both of two places I live. I had very high expectations of this and it far exceeded even though. If you are looking for a small footprint scanner that works fast to keep paper documents in an electronic format, this is for you. Buy it.
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I'm a computer professional with over 24 years of computing experience and I have to say that this is probably one of best technology purchases I've made in quite some time. I've always been a paper pack rat and after looking at a electronic document management package called DevonThink with it's tight integration with the ScanSnap series of scanners I took the plunge and purchased this unit. Within just a week I scanned in excess of 800 pages of documents and started filing them away properly and cleaning out the filling cabinet.
The only negative review complained about how it does not handle different page sizes in the same ADF load and this is partially incorrect. I've found that if I place the larger pages in the front and the smaller pages in the rear that the scanner will detect them automatically and it works like a champ, and at this point you can re-arrange them via the include Adobe Acrobat Professional that comes with the scanner.
The quality of the scanned pages is great
The only negative review complained about how it does not handle different page sizes in the same ADF load and this is partially incorrect. I've found that if I place the larger pages in the front and the smaller pages in the rear that the scanner will detect them automatically and it works like a champ, and at this point you can re-arrange them via the include Adobe Acrobat Professional that comes with the scanner.
The quality of the scanned pages is great
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Honestly, I would have to say that this is one of the best electronic products I have ever bought. The ScanSnap works exactly like advertised. It is extremely easy to use. Just put your document in the feeder and push the scan button. It scan's multi-page documents both front and back quickly and automatically saves them in PDF form. You have the option of saving the document as a text searchable PFD. This is a must have product for anyone wanting to rid themselves of the clutter of paper.
Works like a charm on a Mac. It is extremely easy to find documents after scanning with spotlight.
Works like a charm on a Mac. It is extremely easy to find documents after scanning with spotlight.
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Scanning should not be an art form. With too many scanners, users are given lots of choices-simplex or duplex, tiff or jpg, pdf or Word.
This scanner skips many stupid steps. You insert paper and press a button. It detects double sided pages. It saves to a standard director. It saves in a format you want for the type of material you are copying. Feeling bold, go ahead change the settings. It is a snap. Resetting is not difficult either.
Speed? It promises12 ppm color duplex. If anything it is even faster. It removes blank pages and rotates everything to the correct orientation.
Great value.
This scanner skips many stupid steps. You insert paper and press a button. It detects double sided pages. It saves to a standard director. It saves in a format you want for the type of material you are copying. Feeling bold, go ahead change the settings. It is a snap. Resetting is not difficult either.
Speed? It promises12 ppm color duplex. If anything it is even faster. It removes blank pages and rotates everything to the correct orientation.
Great value.
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ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner
I generally purchase electronic equipment with a healthy amount of skepticism for manufacturer claims. This scanner, however, is all that it's cracked up to be. I teach an online class and I return corrected papers on a daily basis. My previous scanner was giving me a bad case of "scanner arm."
I had the product unwrapped, installed and running within 15 minutes of delivery. I use it daily and I especially appreciate the ability to scan to email while saving a copy for my files.
Since the product was made for a mac, there has been no tweaking necessary. Truly plug and play!
I generally purchase electronic equipment with a healthy amount of skepticism for manufacturer claims. This scanner, however, is all that it's cracked up to be. I teach an online class and I return corrected papers on a daily basis. My previous scanner was giving me a bad case of "scanner arm."
I had the product unwrapped, installed and running within 15 minutes of delivery. I use it daily and I especially appreciate the ability to scan to email while saving a copy for my files.
Since the product was made for a mac, there has been no tweaking necessary. Truly plug and play!
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This is potentially a great unit. And it works beautifully with my Mac. Image quality and OCR and duplex all work just as advertised. One flaw is that it cannot scan different size pieces of paper as part of the same document group; so, if you have a bunch of papers from your mortgage file, but they are different sizes--as is often the case--forget about it. You will have to scan them separately. But for me, the worst is that the ADF [the Automatic Document Feeder] quit working properly after just a week. No matter what I do, it pulls through multiple sheets at the same time. I can actually scan individual pages faster on my Canon flatbed.
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This is potentially a great unit. And it works beautifully with my Mac. Image quality and OCR and duplex all work just as advertised. One flaw is that it cannot scan different size pieces of paper as part of the same document group; so, if you have a bunch of papers from your mortgage file, but they are different sizes--as is often the case--forget about it. You will have to scan them separately. But for me, the worst is that the ADF [the Automatic Document Feeder] quit working properly after just a week. No matter what I do, it pulls through multiple sheets at the same time. I can actually scan individual pages faster on my Canon flatbed.
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If you're not hip to the ScanSnap, you're not really scanning. I don't have anything new to add; I only want to confirm what's already been said. All the excellent reviews you've been reading are true. Best... purchase.... ever!
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I was on the fence about this scanner because it's a little pricey and I already have an all-in-one Epson flatbed scanner, however within the first few hours of using it I feel absolutely great about this purchase. For me, it's a "what is your time worth" problem. I keep paper copies of all of my statements, bills, etc. to the point that it's filled my 2-drawer filing cabinet and about half a dozen of the plastic tote filing bins you get at Office Depot. Seeing that this may be a tad ridiculous I realized that moving to electronic copies for most everything was the way to go. I'm a Mac power-user so I was expecting to be really critical of the software - too often apps are ported to the Mac with little care but Fujitsu did this right in that they developed for the Mac user. The Scanner hardware works really, really well and is successful in 99 out of a 100 docs on average - I have only had about 1 jam on an old mess of a document and it handled it perfectly the second time. As others have
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I have used the product for little over a month now with Apple Mac OS X Leopard. The first impulse I felt after seeing this ScanSnap in action was to get all my documents out of the drawer, scan them all and dispose off the space robbing file folders/boxes or whatchamacallit! It's one of the best investments I have made. It works flawlessly. It gives new meaning to the word "ease of use"! The inclusion of Adobe Acrobat 8 (not yet fully/officially supported on Leopard but so far works fine) itself is worth the price. Fujitsu seems to have understood very well the concept of "elegance in simplicity" so much espoused by Apple in its products and philosophy. This is one of those products where you can't think of anything to add to make it better!
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I am using this scanner mainly for food magazines. I have plans to make everything digitalized and then setup a computer in the kitchen. Anyway, I have a stack of magazines in hand. When I finished setting up the scanner, put a page in, press the Scan button on the machine... I kid you not, it took less than 5 seconds for the piece of paper to go through the scanner. At first I was like "is it doing some kind of warm up?" But then I saw on my computer screen that it's actually processing the scan... WOW. The quality was superb. It's just amazing.
OK, let's run it through the OCR. I wasn't sure what to expect. You know magazine pages have all sorts of images and texts and they're all overlapping each other. Anyway, it came out perfect, I mean, perfect. I don't know how these guys managed to do that. Although I have to say the color of the page after being OCRed is a bit degraded, but not very noticeable.
So I started tearing up the whole magazine, removing all the ad pages,
OK, let's run it through the OCR. I wasn't sure what to expect. You know magazine pages have all sorts of images and texts and they're all overlapping each other. Anyway, it came out perfect, I mean, perfect. I don't know how these guys managed to do that. Although I have to say the color of the page after being OCRed is a bit degraded, but not very noticeable.
So I started tearing up the whole magazine, removing all the ad pages,
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I just received this scanner. I've been collecting a stack of documents to scan and finally ran out of excuses with its arrival. I settled in for a long evening of unpleasantness. I put the first batch of 6 pages into the hopper, pressed the Scan button expecting a sloooowww, painful grind. But....? Each sheet whipped through effortlessly! Both sides of the double sided sheets scanned on a single pass! Everything was oriented correctly and automatically and the legibility was excellent. How did they DO this? I'm used to scanning taking so long I continually forget what I'm doing before I'm done. This is a whole new experience. Suddenly, I'm seeing the real possiblity of reducing all my file cabinets to a few CDs in my lifetime. Wow.
This is about my 5th scanner (HP, Epson previously) but the very first one to take the agony out of scanning. And it's such a cute little machine. I never would have believed it could accomplish such a masterful job. It also handles legal sized documents
This is about my 5th scanner (HP, Epson previously) but the very first one to take the agony out of scanning. And it's such a cute little machine. I never would have believed it could accomplish such a masterful job. It also handles legal sized documents
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