 | Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for PC
Worth every penny -- 2010-09-03
This scanner is an amazing piece of machinery. The scan speed is astonishing, and the quality is superb. The included suite of software makes quick work of standard scanning-related tasks. The folding design is ingenious and makes for compact desk presence. I've had no problem scanning anything from standard letter-sized sheets to credit cards and photos. A must-have for going paperless.
ScanSnap 1500 -- 2010-08-30
The ScanSnap does everything very well, it is fast and easy to set up and use.
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 | Canon LiDE100 Color Image Scanner (2923B002)
Decent quality, but only for FLAT NON-reflective surface -- 2010-08-30
Scan quality on this machine is not bad, but ONLY if the object you are scanning is totally flat and non-reflective. Objects that are even 1/5th of an inch off the surface will appear rather blurry, and anything reflective will leave streaks in the scan due to the CIS scan head. Otherwise, scanning speed was quick at 300 dpi, but 600 was another story.
Only buy this scanner if all you scan are totally flat objects with no recess (like documents or photos), otherwise get a CCD scanner with cold cathode light source or else you'll be disappointed.
Great for the price -- 2010-08-23
I'm sure it could be faster and have more bells and whistles, but I was looking for a basic cheap scanner that would scan things, and that's what I got.
Windows 7 installation was pretty straightforward. Note that I had to actually follow the directions it came with, and install the driver from the CD, and not use the driver Windows found for me.
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 | Epson Perfection V300 Photo Color Scanner (Black)
epson 300 photo scanner -- 2010-08-31
I bought this to scan a great deal of slides. I use this scanner nonstop, from morning to night. It is the best scanner I have ever bought. It works with both xp and vista. It is quiet, a lot of times I don't hear it when it gets done so I have to keep tabs on the screen. I am very happy that it scans like it should, I have had no problems with it. I haven't done negatives yet but I have done pictures and the quality of both the slides and pic's turned out great. It does take longer with higher dpi but I organize in between. I have scanned well over 1500 slides and still going. It doesn't come with a physical direction book, that is on the disk when you load it. I would rather have a book. All in all this is a great scanner and I would recommend it to friends.
Espon ships it broken - then forces you to go to a repair shop -- 2010-08-27
Massive delays. The scanner didn't work when it came (long vertical bar down the center of each scan - with wrinkling effect around the edges). Tech support identified it as a broken scanner, but instead of sending me a new one, the forced me to drive 15 minutes to a repair center. The repair center said it would take 4 days. But after 4 days they couldn't fix it because EPSON wouldn't send them the part.
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 | Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Mobile Scanner (PA03603-B005)
A Great product -- 2010-08-31
I have used the S510 at my office and have found that this scanner was perfect for home use. Its size and ease of connection were a plus in allowing it to be stored when not in use. Workes great with Mac and PC platforms.
WARNING Slow Shipper -- 2010-08-30
I normally receive orders quickly from Amazon. So far the printer has been on order for 10 days and has not even shipped. Note product is: In Stock and Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
You may want to try Newegg or someone else on this one!
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 | VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand Portable Scanner (PDS-ST410-VP)
The associated software doesn't work for Mac, only for PCs! -- 2010-09-04
The software that comes with the scanner is only for PCs. There is even no version for Macs. If you use a Mac, you can only scan stuff into jpeg files. Then, you have to convert each jpeg file into a pdf file and then combine all the pdf files into one pdf file. This is an impossible labor if your purpose is to scan many pages of documents, instead of pictures. Nowadays, more and more people are dumping PCs to switch to Macs. I just dumped four PCs. If the software company is stubbornly stuck with Windows, this product and its company are going to die.
Practical -- 2010-09-02
The scanner is very reasonably priced. Its portability is excellent. After a few minutes you can get the hang of it on how fast to move it over the scanned surface to be able to get a good image. In less than one minute of evaluating the scanned images one is able to learn how to move the scanner. I have obtained great results scanning both color and b/w images. It has proved invaluable when the sources of information scanned cannot be removed from a particular area. Images obtained from 3 d surfaces like books have been good and legible. The included software x ocr is fairly good. The fact that the equipment does not need to be attached to a computer to be able to scan is an advantage as one can travel lighter. It doesn't work if the microsd is not inserted so be sure to buy one along with the scanner if u dont have one already. Controls are toggle switches very easy to use; included instructions straight to the point. LCD is tiny so if you're above 40 you'll need eyeglasses to see well for the first few scans. You'll memorize the location of the icons for the next scans. I liked it so much that I have bought some to give away as gifts for friends and family.
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 | Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Macintosh
Works like it should! -- 2010-09-04
So many computer-related items have great promise before you buy them, but then turn out to be flaky or lack abilities you think they should have. Not so with the ScanSnap S1500; it's very solid, and performs really great!
It really does reorient the pages very reliably. Upside down, portrait vs. landscape, all mixed in a stack--it turns them all upside right in the output. It has failed to do this only a couple of times in the stacks and stacks and stacks of paper I have fed through it.
The feeding is fast and reliable. As some other reviewers have pointed out, you need to load it gently into the feeder; if pushed in too hard, it sometimes will feed more than one page at a time (which it always detects, and recovers from gracefully). I have had (infrequent) occasions where, with a stack of heavyweight paper, I had to lightly hold the stack on the input as it fed in to allow the scanner to grab the pages one at a time. Overall, though, it is fast and feeds very well.
Image quality is good. Its quality is good for archiving documents (which is what I use it for). I haven't tried it for photos or anything like that.
It folds up into a nice small package, and has a permanent place on my desk. I love to use this thing!
I purchased the Mac version in anticipation of buying an Apple; I was using a Windows XP machine at the time. The included Windows drivers and basic software on the CD worked well on XP, although, of course, Acrobat did not (Mac only, as expected). I did eventually get a Macbook (running Snow Leopard), in June of 2010--the software on the ScanSnap CD didn't quite work, but there was an update available that made it work well on Snow Leopard (Fujitsu said when I purchased the unit that Snow Leopard support would be available as an update, so this was no surprise).
Overall a great product! I'm still very happy with it after almost a year!
Fast, Easy, Reliable, Quiet, Amazing! -- 2010-08-27
I use this scanner to archive EVERYTHING! I drop all of my receipts, invoices, contracts, leases, business cards, EVERYTHING into it and it handles it like a champ!
I use the scanner with a Macbook Pro over the USB connection. I scan into Evernote [...] which is also very awesome. This one is a no brainer...buy it! If you have questions, feel free to email me, tweet me, call me.
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 | Pandigital Photolink One-Touch PANSCN06 8.5-Inch x11-Inch Photo Scanner
EXCELLENT scanner for the price -- 2010-09-04
I was leery of a $100 scanner but having over 1,000 photos to scan prior to moving I took a chance and it was WORTH IT! I've scanned 1100 photos in less than 5 hours and they all look great. Definitely worth the price if you value your time but want digital copies of old photos. Recommending this to all my friend. Scanned sizes from wallet up to 81/2 x 11 with ease and great quality!
Greatly exceeded expectations -- 2010-09-02
I have had the unit for three days now.
We were using a flatbed scanner to scan photos going back as far as the 1950's, Using a flatbed was a hassle. Having to scan, cut, and crop, not much was getting accomplished. I wish I had known about this scanner sooner.
In two days, in my spare time; I have already scanned over 100 photos without any trouble.
After a quick read through the manual, the unit was running in about 5 minutes.
Scans are to the embedded card and at the same time the unit is hooked to a Win7 laptop.
Color/reproduction quality has exceeded expectations. Files sizes are much smaller than expected. I have yet to have to crop a photo. Some photos will need Photoshop adjustment, but this was expected.
We sort photos by size, then orientation before scanning. This keeps moving the slide bar to a minimum.
Tried both 300 and 600 dpi, I settled on 300 dpi as there is not (IMO) a great increase in quality, and at 600 and scans are much slower (relatively speaking).
I also have read about the scan lines, so this is something I will keep an eye out for, but no problems so far.
On one photo (one only), the border was black where I inserted it, it just sat in the scanner and refused to go through. I simply turned the photo over and the scan went without problems.
We were good about keeping our photos in good shape (very little curling, kept in cool, dry place). So I am sure this is also making our job easier.
In you have tons of photos (as we do) and want to make quick work it, I would highly recommend this scanner.
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 | Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner (2168B002)
A Great Scanner for OCR -- 2010-08-20
I bought the CanoScan 8800F as an upgrade from my trusty CanoScan 4400F which I used for several years as part of a system that converts text to speech, as a reading aid for my low vision. I often scan a hundred or more pages at a time, and the procedure is highly repetitive; I hoped the 8800F would make the process go faster. As soon as I connected the scanner and made the first few scans, I knew I had made a good choice.
The 8800F has two advantages over the 4400F that I noticed immediately. First, there is no warm-up time for the light source in the 8800F. The 4400F has a cold fluorescent bulb that takes about 30 seconds to warm up when it is cold, and if it sits for a few minutes it does another short warm up before it will scan. The 8800F, on the other hand, has an LED light source that requires no warm up at all. The 4400F leaves its light source on for 12 minutes after a scan (this time is adjustable) to shorten the warm up time, whereas the 8800F shuts its light source off after each scan. Second, the 8800F scans faster than the 4400F. It seems to be about twice as fast, though I have not measured the scan times. These two advantages enable me to be about 50% more productive with the 8800F than with the 4400F, which makes the 8800F worth the higher price.
The two scanners have the same size platen (scanning surface) that takes document sizes up to A4. Most of my scanning is of books, and most of the time I can lay the book flat and scan two pages at once, though for larger books I am only able to scan a single page at a time. It would be nice to find a scanner that can accommodate larger formats, but I did not find one among the consumer scanners that I examined.
The 8800F has a power button, which the 4400F does not. Both scanners have the same buttons that you can use to initiate various scan operations. I never use these, as I always control scans through the software. On the 8800F the buttons are on the top rather than on the front, as for the 4400F, where I would often bump them with my arm, causing a flurry of dialogs to open on the screen.
The basic software user interface is the same for both scanners and consists of two applications that work together: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5 and Canon Scan Gear. PhotoStudio is a combination image editing and scanner control program. It calls Scan Gear to do each scan and accumulates scanned images which you can edit and save. The 8800F comes with several utilities which I haven't used, and also comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and 5.0.
If you do a lot of OCRing, as I do, avoid the ScanSoft OmniPage SE application that comes with the scanner. It is old and extremely buggy. I used it after I bought the 4400F and was in OCR hell for a year until I wised up and bought the latest version of OmniPage Professional, which seemed like magic after that. OmniPage can integrate with Scan Gear, which improves scanning efficiency for OCR operations. I also tried ReadIris 11, but it had a peculiar bug that duplicated letters in OCR'd text. ReadIris technical support never responded to my query about that.
The 8800F has lots of other capabilities that I have not tried yet. I understand that it shines as a photo, slide and negative scanner. I don't know if there is a better scanner out there, but the 8800F suits me very well.
Canon Slide Scanning Tricks and Tips - 8800f -- 2010-08-17
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R10NDPTRFN83WR Stephen Paul West, Author and Artist in Austin Texas, shows how to use the Canon Scannner to maximum benefit for slides, negatives and other projects. See more at[...]
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 | Canon CanoScan 9000F Color Image Scanner
Outstanding film/slide scanner -- 2010-08-19
The Canon CanoScan 9000F is an outstanding film/slide scanner. It also accomplishes excellent images of old photographs and old newspaper items.
I opened the shipping box, unpacked the hardware, then read the simple instructions. I installed the driver software, plugged the CanoScan into my iMac. Plugged in the power to the CanoScan, installed the slide frame and four slides, closed the door and turned on the CanoScan.
The iMac asked if it should scan.
That's it.
Spent the remaining afternoon scanning slides and then popping the superb jpeg images into the iPhoto application.
I was a really happy camper!
Magic CanoScan -- 2010-08-17
The CanoScan 9000F is an excellent product I have been looking for for many years. I have been trying to digitize a large collection of personal and work related slides, negatives and B&W and color photos. In the past six years I have quit the project several times because the scanners I used were not up to the task. Some of the slide/negative scanning gadgets (not inexpensive) I used simply did not deliver acceptable result. With the 9000F I am finding it a joy to get the work done. The output in my opinion is just incredible and is delivered by a scanner affordable in price for an average nonprofessional.
The 9000F is easy to install and operate (I use Windows XP system). The output is of excellent quality, thus I can focus my energy on cleaning the inputs from dust and other debris rather then being preoccupied with keeping the scanner operating. The 9000F reliably recognizes the input being scanned. Digitizing 35 mm slides and negatives with the 9000F brings the scenes to life in a way I have not seen before, except those provided by professional labs. The scanner is also very good in recognizing multiple photos being scanned at the same time. I am very happy with the product and without hesitation recommend the 9000F to anyone with large collection of slides, negatives and photos wanting/needing digital rendition of high quality. Assuming the product is durable as well (I have been using the 9000F for about three weeks very intensively, digitizing about 3000 targets so far), I will have only praise for the CanoScan 9000F.
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