| Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Macintosh |  | Brand: Fujitsu
Category: CE
List Price: $469.99
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Format: CD
Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 15.8 x 10.4 x 9.2
nv:Scanner Type: Sheetfed
Scanner Element: CCD
Light Source: White Cold Cathode Discharge Lamp
Optical Resolution: 600 x 600 DPI
Maximum Document Size: 8.5" x 14.17"
Interface Connectivity: USB 2.0
Power Source: AC Adapter
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: PA03586-B105
Model: PA03586-B105
UPC: 097564307584
EAN: 0097564307584
ASIN: B001XWCQO2
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| Features:
| • | Image Sensor: CCD | | • | Scan Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi Hardware / 600 dpi Optical | | • | Maximum Scan Speed: 20ppm (Color) / 20ppm (Grayscale) / 20ppm (Monochrome) | | • | Media Type: Plain Paper, Business Card | | • | Media Size: 8.50" x 14.17", 2" x 2", A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, Letter, Legal, Custom Size |
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Product Description
The ScanSnap S1500M provides Mac users an effective way to greatly reduce paper clutter, storage space, and security risk associated with unmanaged paperwork at home or office. Even better, documents scanned by ScanSnap take on a higher level of accessibility and usefulness once liberated into the digital realm.
Included items
1 USB cable (2.0),1 ScanSnap CarrierSheet,1 Safety Precautions,1 AC adapter,1 Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional DVD-ROM,1 Set-up DVD-ROM ,1 AC cable and 1 Getting Started
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| Customer Reviews:
Great tool for the paperless office April 10, 2009
Giovanni Bertani (Verona Italy)
99 out of 99 found this review helpful
Great tool. What a scanner should be. This is another world from the speed and software efficiency you have in the average scanner and All In One Printers. So I am happy to have both a AIO device and this great tool for document management.
My use:
Now all the invoices and in general, all my printed documents are converted into searchable pdf into an easy to access archive.
I can recover from a fax or a printed document and edit it in word or excel tables or iWork and save a lot of time retyping
Business cards are archived in a short time and included in my address book and so also on my iPhone.
PLUS
A single, easy to use, application manages the very fast scanning and efficient OCR conversion of printed documents outputting directly in searchable PDF, Word, Excel, email attachment, address book and VCF contacts. Also business card OCR is quiet effective and the limit is due to strange character and graphics and you can find on some more creative cards.
Compared to what you find in the AIO devices and average scanners, paper handling is superior and errors are avoided. In the case of skipped pages (Happens rarely) a sensor warns you and show you which page is missing.
CONS
Only shortcoming is that Acrobat Pro is included in version 8.0 and not the last 9.0 but I suppose that this will change soon.
Paper eater April 27, 2009
Donald H. Mcclelland (San Marino, CA USA)
69 out of 69 found this review helpful
But I mean this in a good way. The ScanSnap S1500M gobbles up piles of paper at an amazing rate. One-side or two-side scanning takes the same time. I have put just about every type of paper through it, often of mixed sizes and types (e.g., legal and letter size, 3x5 cards, newspaper and magazine clippings, unfolded brochures). A carrier sheet is available for crumpled, folded, or extremely thin paper. I've only had one paper jam (an odd-shaped, somewhat crumpled page that I ran without using the carrier sheet). Clearing jams is trivially easy because of the almost straight-through paper path. I am amazed by the quality of the scans. Photos sometimes look better than the originals. It small and almost silent. The software is easy to use. I have seldom, if ever, had a computer peripheral that I was as happy with.
Worth every penny April 19, 2009
Bryan Hunt (Austin, TX)
74 out of 75 found this review helpful
I've scanned approximately 15,000 pages with this scanner and it couldn't have been easier. I did get the occasional "paper jam" when the sheet feeder picked up the next page as it was feeding the current page. Clearing a jam is trivial: pop the cover open, remove the pages, snap the cover back, continue scanning. Considering I was feeding in papers from 15 - 20 years ago, I expected the pages to occasionally stick together. This scanner is worth every penny.
INVALUABLE & IMPECCABLE. June 23, 2009
Eugene I. Kim (Phoenix, AZ)
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
This is probably the most valuable hardware I have ever purchased for my Mac and for my office. I am considering purchasing a second one for my home as well. Now the machine looks clunky and large in the picture shown here, but the scanner can be folded down if you are not using it. Look for pictures of folded down machine. It is much more compact and nicer looking then it does on the above picture. That's important too; after all, you want your desk to look neater and less cluttered after getting this machine.
I owned a Neat Receipts Mac scanner previously. S1500M is superior in every way; the difference is so great, I probably should not even compare them. Neat Receipts was agonizing slow and the OCR software was also slow and unreliable (often crashed). I was sorely disappointed. Good thing I tried the S1500M. I've owned this machine for a few months now and have scanned all kinds of documents. Fast and reliable scanning every time. ADF works flawless; never skips a page. Scans both sides of a page automatically when needed; I wasn't even thinking about this feature when I purchased it, but boy that sure is a convenient feature to have.
Adobe Acrobat which came with the scanner is nice; but I recommend also getting Yep! (shareware which utilizes Spotlight -- remember to enable Spotlight or it won't work!) for previewing and organizing all the PDF files you will be creating. You can't work efficiently without a great document scanner and organizer in the 21st century. Invaluable. Invaluable. Get it. Just do it.
UPDATE: Recently some ignorant clerk at the IRS sent me a document of about 20 pages stapled a bunch of times using a broken stapler (the staples were bent irregularly in multiple places). I took off 4 broken staples and ran the document through and realized that there were actually more broken staples in between the documents where it was not visible to me until it jammed my ScanSnap S1500M. It made a grinding noise and I was horrified to discover about 5 more broken stapes between the documents. I thought the S1500M was a sure gonner. After clearing all the jammed papers and staples, it went right back in to smooth action!!! The quality on this scanner is absolutely beautiful. Nevertheless, make sure you thoroughly check your documents before inserting them to your scanner ADF, especially the ones from IRS.
An exceptionally reliable and versatile scanner August 21, 2009
Ernest E. Svenson (New Orleans, Louisiana United States)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've been using ScanSnaps since they first appeared on the horizon. Prior to that, I'd been on a serious quest to become totally paperless. I worked in a law firm and convinced them to get a scanner and I learned how to use it. The machine was large, complicated and expensive. If it hadn't been so expensive I would have bought one for myself to use at home, but I just couldn't justify it. When the ScanSnap was announced I realized that finally there was a scanner that could scan batches of documents at an affordable price. I assumed that there had to be a catch, and that would mean the scanner wasn't quite top-notch.
I bought one anyway. I realized instantly that this was the holy grail of scanners. And, as I said, I've been using them ever since. Every one of these scanners has been a model of reliability. I've recommended these scanners to hundreds of people and every single person I've recommended it to has wound up falling in love with it. Like anything in the world of technology, it is best if you take the time to explore the settings and figure out how to make it work best for you. As a home scanner there is simply no other option, not in my view. The all-in-one machines are fine if you only want to scan a few things here and there. If you are going to scan stacks of documents then you need a real scanner.
How good is this scanner?
Well, like I said, I'm a lawyer and I've recommended this scanner to other lawyers and helped them set it up. Many other tech-savvy lawyers I know have discovered this scanner on their own. Lawyers as you may know, are huge devourers of paper. A couple of lawyers I know work in small firms where this is the only scanner. It can totally handle the workflow of paper that a small firm of lawyers receives. But, most of these firms quickly decide to get a scanner for each lawyer. And why not? It's not that expensive, especially when you consider that it comes pre-loaded with Adobe Acrobat (which is normally a $200+ value). If you want to be paperless then you want to scan to PDF, and having Acrobat allows you to manipulate your PDFs (e.g. add signatures, insert pages, rotate pages, make sticky notes etc.).
I've used both the Mac version of this scanner and the Windows version and they are completely equivalent. They both work wonderfully. The Windows version of this scanner comes with wonderful software called ScanSnap Organizer, which makes it really easy to batch scan a bunch of different papers (e.g. bank statements, utility bills, receipts etc) and then later on put them into folders or whatever you want to do to organize things. The Mac version doesn't come with this software, but there is a great program called 'Yep' (just google 'yep mac software' and you'll find it) that costs about $34 and is even better (in my opinion) than the Organizer software that comes with the Windows version of the ScanSnap.
It's rare in the world of technology that one product winds up dominating because it simply stands heads-and-shoulders above everything else that purports to compete with it. The Fujitsu ScanSnap is one such product. I advise a lot of lawyers about becoming paperless, and whenever I hear that someone has tried and failed to make the switch away from paper, I often find that the root problem is with their scanner. It's either too powerful (and therefore too complicated), or it's not powerful enough (e.g. the all-in-one device, and this is even true of the $10,000 high end multi-function devices). The ScanSnap is like the porridge in the Goldilocks fable: it's just right.
Install the software, then plug it in and hook it to the computer. Configure it and then load a stack of paper. Try putting a letter in upside down and see what happens (it will auto rotate it to the proper orientation). It will straighten pages that you load crooked, and it will scan the front and back of pages at the same time. But it will toss out the back pages if they're blank. It can scan in color or black & white. You can run OCR (optical character recognition) so that the document will be text-searchable (I don't do this because it takes a little extra time and generally isn't worth it, but you can do it easily if you want). If you get this and want more room on your desk then get rid of your fax machine and get a low-cost web based fax service like [...] which lets you send and receive faxes by email. You've got the Scanner and I presume you have an email account.
What are you waiting for? The paperless revolution awaits you, and all you need to make the first step is this Scanner.
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