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Mac software (including CardMinder) is also bundled with the scanner, so you don’t have to purchase a separate scanner version for your iMac or Macbook, and the Mac version can also send documents to Skitch for easy markup. Fujitsu has also offered regular upgrades to the included software packages during the time I’ve had the software installed.

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I found no software glitches or errors that seemed to be related to Windows 8 compatibility.

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There were a lot of drivers and bundled software, so it took a good chunk of time to get everything set up. You also have to set up the connection for any services you wish to use, such as Google Drive, SugarSync, or Evernote. I tested the ScanSnap on a Windows 8 PC, and I had no problems getting it to work, other than time. While not 100% accurate, ScanSnaps suggestions were still very reliable, and they offered the easy ability to override them when they were off the mark. You can also save documents as searchable PDFs, so you preserve the flow of the text while still making it usable. The Quick Menu also offers to send business cards to apps like Salesforce or use the ScanSnap’s native CardMinder app. You can save it within the ScanSnap folder, export it to a desktop program like Office, or send it to cloud services, including Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, and SugarSync. Once you’ve scanned a document, ScanSnap software pops up with a Quick Menu that asks you what you want to do with it and offers suggestions depending on the type of document it detects. It’s the difference between a Word document and a giant picture of a document.) (OCR stands for optical character recognition, and it means that the software recognizes the picture of a letter and translates it into actual text. Text documents use ABBYY OCR scanning for conversion into editable formats. It will visually straighten crooked documents and turn upside down or sideways documents to the correct orientation. It also takes documents of different sizes without having to separate them. This is great for scanning in long documents without getting the page order mixed up. Like the competing scanners I mentioned, the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 scans both sides of the paper at once and allows you to stack several pages at a time to have them fed individually through the scanner. The ScanSnap also has sides that fold unobtrusively out of the way while not in use, like the Epson, but the look is sleeker on the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Both Epson and Fujitsu’s models offer fast 25 ppm, double-sided speeds, but the Epson can feed stacks of up to 75 pages compared to 50 on the ScanSnap. However, the ScanSnap is a newer model and does offer direct-to-mobile scanning over home Wi-Fi networks. The Competitionįujitsu’s iX500 is priced around $430, putting it squarely on the higher price range for home office scanners with similar feature sets, such as the Epson WorkForce or NeatDesk scanner. I swear I’m never using a hand-held scanner again. After reviewing the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500, I realized that sometimes it’s worth three times as much to get it done ten times quicker. It was downright tedious, even with mobility. It was still going to be a chore, but at least I would have everything organized. I thought the mobile features would make it easier, since I could move it into the living room and scan while watching TV. I started clearing out some of my paperwork with a smaller scanner that came with a direct-to-iPad adapter and a software filing system.

I intended to sort it and file it, someday, but the task was pretty daunting without some better technology. I’d rather just send it to Google Drive or Evernote and find it when I needed it.įor the first several school years, I had a file folder where I’d just stuff all my paperwork after school meetings. I don’t even necessarily want to keep some of that stuff on my computer.

There are plenty of other occasions where having a high-speed scanner with a document feeder would come in handy, such as after conventions when I have tons of business cards or during tax season when I have a pile of receipts. Raising a special needs student tends to mean killing a lot of trees with documentation. In fact, every school year, I want something higher speed. These days I do a lot of photo scanning with the flatbed built into my all-in-one printer, but that doesn’t mean I don’t occasionally want something higher speed. I’ve used a lot of scanners since the days when I bought my first SCSI flatbed scanner that took up half the computer desk and took ten minutes per page.

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