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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner Reviews

Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner Reviews

So far, I love this machine! I originally bought it to digitize my book collection (I recently retired and will be moving into a travel trailer: there is no way I'm giving up my books but there is no way I'm going to have room for them all). I've done about 3500 scans so far (about 1000 were test scans while learning how to use the scanner and testing for settings to use) and the machine hasn't even started breathing heavily. The foot print is small when folded up and doesn't increase much when opened up. Firing up the machine is as simple as opening the top cover. Opening out the document out tray is optional. Not using the tray allows more documents to be fed without the already ejected documents getting in the way of the outgoing ones. The document out tray also sets slightly above the desktop so it isn't necessary to clear all paperwork from the desktop to use the scanner.It's most impressive attribute has been its incredible speed compared to using a flat bed scanner with minimal misfeeds or jams (maybe one every 200-300 scans, mostly my fault). So far, I've scanned one book and a dozen magazines with good results. On magazines, I spend more time cutting off the spine with a rotary paper cutter than I do actually scanning. The same will be almost be true with books (mostly perfect bound paperbacks) once I get my band saw set up to cut off the spines (changing blades is a pain). I found that it is necessary to separate each page from the next prior to loading them (in batches of 20) into the scanner to avoid misdeeds or jams. Even so, once I separated 20 pages and loaded them into the s1500. I was able to get the next batch ready about the time the previous batch was finished scanning. Overall, it took between five and ten minutes to scan a 100 page magazine or book, a figure I'm happy with.Post edit: While scanning magazines, I've found I can put up to 140 pages (70 sheets) into the scanner without so much as a gentle belch from the scanner. I've found it's much faster to just fan the pages along the cut edge, put them all into the scanner, and deal with any paper jams that may occur because a couple pages were'nt quite separated. The jams are rare and when they do occur, are easy to deal with.Post edit: Anyone buying this scanner to scan books, be aware that using a saw to cut off the spines is not a good option. After scanning over a hundred books, I found that paper dust on the inside of the glass camera plattens was causing streaks in color and grayscale scans. The problem was caused by my using a bandsaw to cut off the book spines. The teeth of the blade left a fine, friable edge that shed paper dust like a long-haired dog in Spring. No amount of cleaning would eliminate that dust from the cut edge since more would crumble off in the scanner. Because of the large amount of dust, some managed to work its way inside the machine even though I didn't use compressed air (which is forbidden in the manual) to clean it (the band saw also accumulated huge amounts of dust and glue would get on the blade and tires; I had to spend unacceptable amounts of time frequently cleaning glue off the blade and the tires of the saw). I bought a guillotine type paper cutter and that almost eliminated the dust problem. When I called Fujitsu about getting it cleaned inside, they agreed to clean it under warranty but said the scanner was intended only for office work and not for book scanning since the cut edges crumbled so much but they did agree to "clean" it under warranty (they said the cameras were sealed units and would have to be replaced). After receiving the unit back, I cleaned the small amount of dust that accumulated in the scanner after each book (probably no more than 300 or more office documents would have left behind) with a small vacuum (per Fujitsu's suggestion) and a small brush design for dusting off LCD TV screens. The unit has been working fine ever since. If, after several hundred more books, dust gets into the scanner cameras again, I'll just get a second s1500 for scans other than books and save this one for books only. The streaks did not show up in B&W scans, which is what I use for the body of the book and only a small amount in the covers, which I didn't really care about as long as they are readable so the machine would still be acceptable for book scans. Quality of magazine and book scans is not perfect but is still pretty good, depending on the material being scanned. Because magazines are loaded with color and grayscale illustrations, it is necessary to use the Auto settings and Normal compression to get decent scans. Text tends to be a bit on the faint side. As good as the OCR is it is still unbelievably slow so searchable PDFs are out of the question for this application. This means it will be impossible to read scans on anything other than a computer screen or a large e-book reader. Since I don't plan on scanning magazines until after I've read them, I won't be viewing them except on a large computer screen so that's not a problem for me. The quality of book scans depends on if there are any color or grayscale illustrations on the page. Exposure can be set only when doing black and white scans. Most so called black and white illustrations, even line drawings, are actually grayscale and will look horrible scanned on the black and white setting. If a page is all text, it will look fine when scanned with the auto setting or a grayscale setting. Any kind of illustration will cause the text to be fainter, especially color illustrations. Since most books limit color illustrations to separate pages and the covers so if it proves to be a problem, I can always scan the color pages separately and concatenate them in Adobe, an easy process. I plan on reading my scanned books on an e-book reader but I'm waiting for the prices to come down and the features to improve, such as adding zoom, backlighting (or, if not possible with e-ink, front lighting), etc. I won't be in any hurry for one for at least a year or two so I can wait. I'm guessing it will only take a year or so.Post edit: I've found using Color and setting compression to 3 gives slightly better results with magazines. Even though the OCR for making searchable PDFs is slow, the desirability of being able to search magazines (all are tech or history related) outweighed my impatience. Even then, the overall process is much faster than it would have been using a flatbed without OCR.Of course, the intended purpose of the s1500 is office paperwork reduction. Trying to scan all my receipts, statements, etc, on my Epson was painfully time consuming and did not always yield good results. Concatenating files was a pain involving copying and pasting into a Word doc, then converting to PDF with a virtual printer. The s1500 can be set to either scan pages into individual files or concatenated ones. The speed and quality is amazing. I emptied a drawer full of paperwork I had been procrastinating on scanning in about an hour. From now on, as soon as I get receipts, etc, that need scanning and tossing, I'll do it the instant I get them. It is so much more convenient and faster than using the Epson.Most said that the machine was not suitable for scanning photos (I only have a thousand or two that need scanning). Based on the results and techniques of one reviewer, though, I decided to try scanning some photos. I was able to get slightly better quality from my old Epson 1660 Photo but each photo required one prescan, setting the scan area (basically, cropping the prescan), a second prescan to fine tune the scan area settings, reset the exposures settings, then , finally, scanning the darned thing. Every few photos, I had to take time to clean the platen (every once and a while I had to dismantle the machine and clean the underside of the platen and blow out the dust that somehow makes its way inside). With the s1500, actual scan time was maybe twice as fast as the Epson, but all I had to do, once the initial settings were made, was load about 10 or so photos into the machine, press a button (the only button), wait a bit for the machine to digest them, then load in some more photos from the same batch. The only setting that needed changing between batches was the file name. The machine would automatically append the photo number after the batch name on each photo. The result was I could scan ten photos on the s1500 in the time it took to scan one, maybe two (if I stayed focused; I have ADD--me, focused?), on the Epson.As I mentioned, the quality of photos scanned with the s1500 is less than what I got from the Epson when scanned at similar settings (600 dpi and similar compression). File size was larger on the Epson. Still, one almost has to look at the on screen images side by side on my 22" LCD widescreen monitor to see the difference. When viewed on my 32" LCD widescreen TV, the pictures look fine from a distance of five to six feet. Scanning photos on my Epson was so slow, I was considering buying an ADF photo scanner but the ones I checked out didn't exactly get sterling reviews. I was seriously considering farming the job out, no matter the cost but the quality of photos scanned on the s1500 is good enough and the speed of the scans so fast, I'll probably do all of them on the s1500. Any photos of exceptional value or I plan on printing enlargements of I can also scan on the Epson (both of them).A bonus use I hadn't anticipated involves my current project to digitize my CD collection. I kept all my CDs in a huge 400 CD changer (which was maxed out) so to save space, I filed all the CD covers in binders with photo album pages and tossed the jewel boxes. When I move, I won't be able to take the CD changer with me because, besides being huge and full, I would have to remove the CDs from the changer anytime I moved the travel trailer, a pain in the (ahem) I don't need. So I'm ripping them all to my computer. The binders with the CD covers in them also take up too much room and it's too easy to spill the covers from the binders so I've been scanning them with the Epson, pasting the resulting JPEGs into a Word doc (I didn't have Acrobat at the time), then using a virtual printer to convert the Word doc into a PDF. Talk about time consuming!I tried pulling staples and cutting the CD covers to individual pages and scanning them with the s1500. Most of the time, this worked well at blazing speed. Covers that were multifold rather than a stapled booklet required single sided scanning and being fed one page at a time but it still went much faster than using the Epson. The only times I was forced to resort to using the Epson was when an illustration and/or text spanned more than a couple of pages. I found it was necessary to first scan to JPEGs, then combine them in Adobe. Scanning directly into PDF resulted in lower scan quality and considerably larger file sizes. Again, even with the extra steps, the process was amazingly fast. I can do at least ten covers in the time it used to take to do one using the Epson. The quality is generally better.The deskew feature worked like a champ...most of the time. Every once in a great while, usually on a page with a predominance of graphics, it would lock on a near horizontal line and actually skew a page going through correctly. The fix is easy; turn off the deskew feature and rescan.The biggest complaint I have concerns the software. I shelled out the extra $25 for the Deluxe package but, so far, the only extra software I've used is ABBYY FineReader. It works reasonably well but I do not expect to get a lot of use from it. I also installed Card Minder and Snap Scan Organizer. I get very few business cards and it's not that big a deal to manually transfer the info to my phone book. I would rather do that than maintain two separate data bases anyway. I already have a lot of data stored using Windows folder system and have been satisfied with that system so I don't need the Snap Scan Organizer. Again, having only one data base is more efficient. I read in a review importing data into SSO is a pain so why bother. For that reason, I haven't even bothered to install Rack2-Filer. Again, these are my needs and others may be more likely to have use for the extra software.Post edit: When installing the software, the installer sets them up to start when booting the computer. This noticeably slows overall computer time. Since all I ever use is SnapScan Manager, I removed all the other programs from the startup sequence. I tried removing SnapScan Manager from th startup sequence but found when I fire up the scanner, it doesn't automatically open the Manager--I had to go into the start menu to open it--so I put it back into the startup sequence.Another really big gripe is not being able to adjust scan exposure on anything other than black and white. That is a HUGE problem. There should be an option to change the default levels in the auto settings, especially since they tend to be a bit on the light side.The carrier sheet is a joke. I tried using it to scan the CD covers and found out one has to preset the page size in. Otherwise, the entire carrier is included in the document. I found it to be one heckuvalot easier and faster to just cut the covers apart than to use that idiot carrier, preset the page size, then still have to crop the pages in Adobe. The only use I foresee is when scanning REALLY fragile documents. Even ripped documents are more easily taped than scanned using the carrier sheet. And there is always the Epson I can fall back on.The documentation that comes with the machine is not as good as I would like. One receives two sizeable manuals, set up and safety precautions, but each one has only a few pages in each of several languages. I cut out the few English pages, scanned them, then tossed the manuals. There is a more extensive manual accessed from ScanSnap manager or the right click menu in the tray icon. I found it curious that the manuals, when instructing one to install the software on the Snap Scan disk, do not tell one to also install Adobe. Fortunately, even this computer challenged, old broad was able to figure that one out on her own. Navigating through the documentation is a pain because it is broken up into umpteen dozen separate documents that forces one to keep going back to the menu to go to another topic before continuing. It would have been one heckuvalot easier if it was one continuous document that was indexed. I did find a PDF manual online ([...]) that was set up that way. I've since found it was on the installation disk but accessing it is inconvenient.Use of the final menus in a scan was a pain to figure out. I bypassed them until I figured them out (sorta).A minor complaint is the brick power supply. Even when the machine is turned off, the brick is still drawing power. Add that to that all the power the other bricks my equipment use (seven total) and we are talking about a noticeable dent in the annual power bill. I would have been willing to pay more for a machine that had an onboard power supply, even if it was a tad bigger, so the AC could be turned off when the machine was not in use.Despite my complaints, I'm giving this machine five stars simply because it has wildly exceeded my expectations and, due to the time it is saving me, worth every penny I paid for it, especially since Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard ($236 on Amazon) was packaged with it. Keep in mind this is not a do all machine but it does what it was intended (and then some) exceedingly well.

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My girlfriend told me that the level of paper clutter I had was unacceptable, so I began looking for a solution. I've found that for bills this device works great. For some old papers (scientific) that I scanned in, I've found a bit more difficulty. More often than not, things work great. Unfortunately, there are some paper jams. When these occur, I find that the software's simplicity works against it and it's not easy to recover from easily. Also, it takes some effort to remove the jam. But, given how rare this happens, I can still recommend this product. The speed is also amazing!

• One button searchable PDF creation


• Intelligent paper feed detection


• Blazing 20ppm color scanning


• 50-page Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)


• Comes with Adobe Acrobat Standard, CardMinder business card software, ScanSnap Organizer, and ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap

MBA

I scanned thousands of pages in a single weekend. It is as easy as loading each statement, and hitting the scan button. If you have the SnapScan Manager open in the foreground, it goes right into the application as a PDF. Otherwise, it asks you where you want to scan to.The SnapScan Manger, which scans into searchable PDFs, and lets you organize documents and easily verify each scanned page. Out of thousands of scanned pages, I had 2 misfeeds. Both were the problem with the page being scanned. Some very lite-weight pages needs the translucent "carrier" to make it through properly. But that also lets you scan receipts.I double-checked the fronts and backs of the first several hundred pages, but by the end I was fully confident it didn't miss a single page. Even then you can look at the mini-previews in the SnapScan Manager.The most amazing thing about this device is the duplex scanning. It scans both front and back simultaneously. It is blistering fast!!!!!!!!This was an amazing investment!!! I am close to paperless!!!The only potential con is the lack of Twain driver support (no direct scanning from apps). But since the SnapScan manager saves directly to PDF, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, etc, it is a minor trade-off.

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This scanner installed and worked just as easily as advertised - I have not used the software filing system that came with it, but it works so well without it, I may not even try it. I have had no complaints and have scanned many different types of documents from business cards to legal documents, without a problem. Much better than the all in one printers as it is so much faster and reliable. Highly recommend.

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