| Scanners Reviews : Sheet-Fed |
 | 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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 | 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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 | Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Instant PDF Sheet Fed Scanner
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Instant PDF Sheet Fed Scanner -- 2010-09-03
I have used a SCSI version of this scanner. A real pain to hook up and connect. Now that its now USB connected, it's much easier to use. The RAK2File software is a bit intimidating at first, because I am used to the Windows explorer method of managing files. Once you get the hang of it, it's really quite impressive. It is so easy to scan and file documents, I plan to scan everything and get rid of my 4-drawer legal size filing cabinet and boxes of paper files. I am not quite a hoarder, but my office sure looks like it. Graphically, you're looking at bookshelves with binders and your files are put into binders. Your files look as if they're in real binders. You can tab your binders and the tab names become titles on the front page binder index. How impressive is that! Even my computer novice wife thinks it's great. She plans on buying our two daughters one for Christmas.
Plans:
1. Scan all my user manuals - I usually have to look on the Internet, because I don't know where the hard copy manual is.
2. Scan magazine articles I want to save. So even if I don't read them they're not taking up space.
3. Scan all my old military and government service documents.
4. Scan all my financial documents.
The top feeder tray folds out and the bottom output tray both fold out, so it's a pretty compact package when both are folded in.
A files management rule - store at least two copies in separate drives. So if one drive goes down, you have the other to fall back on.
The scanner comes with a business card filer so you can scan your business cards. I haven't used other card filing programs so can't say whether this is better or worse than others.
I have a lot of other PDFs that I created with the previous scanner, that I should be able to integrate into the RAC2filer program.
Mr. Accountant -- 2010-08-23
The machine is easy to use and fast. I have put through a 20 page document without any jamming or 2 for 1 scans. Excellent quality scan. The plastic shell is a little cheapish. It does not affect the quality of what I bought it for. It does not get moved around and has aquired a fixed spot on my desktop.Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Instant PDF Sheet Fed Scanner
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 | Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner
Frustrated the entire time I used it -- 2010-08-31
I bought this scanner in the beginning of 2010.
It makes great scans of black and white 35mm negatives. I haven't tried black and white 120 negatives, but I assume it's the same thing.
As far as color goes -- not the best, at all. No, let me correct that: it will make good color scans if your exposure was correct and if the film was developed correctly. But even then, the colors are usually seriously off and needs to be corrected with software. Sometimes the colors are so off that the image is not even useable. Also sometimes I have to scan more than once because the scanner cannot even pick up the negative. At first I thought it was just me not using the scanner correctly; but I WAS using it correctly. It's jut a terrible scanner.
But now after just living with these frustrations, it won't even power on. It's completely dead. It sits on my computer table and hasn't been dropped, I don't know what's wrong with it and I am so angry that I have to buy a new scanner. It's not even worth fixing or sending back.
I'm not expecting perfection, but a little consistency. $130 is not much to a lot of people, but it is to poor college students like me.
I'm now saving up my money to buy a better scanner.
love my epson -- 2010-07-24
I received my Epson scanner within two days of order. It is wonderful, very easy to use, and excellent quality. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a user-friendly, high-quality scanner for the price.
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 | Visioneer RoadWarrior RW120 Color Mobile USB 2.0 VRS PDF TWAIN (RW120-WU)
no mac software -- 2010-07-26
Amazon didn't clearly show that this product only had PC software . . hard to understand.
My old Visioneer DID have mac software, so I assumed this one would too. By contrast, other Visioneer products work on both mac and PC platforms.
Easy to Use -- 2010-03-03
Compact and easy to use. One note, documents must be brushed off of dust or they will appear streaky.
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 | Genius Colorpage-SF600 Sheet fed Scanner
awesome scanner -- 2010-06-14
scans with great accuracy and legibility. use for shipping documents, even duplicates and triplicates scan extremely well. Stopped using all in one HP scanner/printer & use this one instead.
Genius Colorpage-SF600 Sheet fed Scanner -- 2010-05-24
Works extremely well, the OCR leaves errors, but not too many. Its portability is excellent, and the fact that it can be put aside standing means the desktop is clear.
Leon
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 | Penpower Docket Port 467 A4 portable sheetfed scanner
Not as Mac compatible as they claim -- 2010-06-01
Support was great to work with, but the driver to make it Mac compatible did not work well. It works, and the image is fine, but to have the quality I would like, the MB's are too big to upload to the program I use it for.
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 | DCT DocketPort 667 A6 Portable Sheetfed Scanner
It works well -- 2010-06-10
Purchased this device to scan ID cards into our banking system. It works well. Images are good, it reads the barcodes perfectly. The only complaint I have is the sensor sees the ID being inserted doesn't always see the card and thus doesn't pull the card in every time.
Do not believe the hype -- 2009-09-08
As far as I can tell this device does not work at all with ID cards. The one I got wouldn't even scan pictures or text reliably. Most images were blurred, hashed or cut to pieces. Stay away from this dog.
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 | Visioneer Strobe XP 450 20 PPM USB ADF PDF TWAIN (SXP4501D-WU)
Awesome Scanner -- 2010-02-26
this is the most awesome scanner.. It is small & compact and so easy to use. For use in the office, when I have to scan contracts I can do it with such ease.. then I save it as a PDF and then can email to all concerned - FAST. I recommend this machine to everyone who needs a fast scanner for their home or office. You will not be disappointed. There may be cheaper machines out there but once you use this, you will wonder how you got along without it.
Great scanner...if you have a later version -- 2009-02-06
I love this scanner...it is fast, generally bullet proof. There are a few weird things about it, like it doens't like to be plugged into UPS. It prefers to be plugged into a stip of the wall.
It does lose connection occasionally (not often). The fix is to power off the scanner and turn it back on with the switch onthe back. It takes 10 seconds...MAX.
This last purchase from Amazon however the scanner on this order I received was an older version of the scanner, which leads me to believe it had been sitting in the warehouse for a long time.
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