| Scanners Reviews : Sheet-Fed |
 | Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner
Epson Scanner 4490 -- 2008-11-04
I am very pleased with the product. I use it for scanning both opaque graphics and 35mm and 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 transparencies. I never use the holders for the mounted transparencies allowing me to scan more at once. I then separate them with the cropping tool in Photoshop. HINT! If the first slide in the row is too close to the top of the light slot the scanner will treat the material as opaque.
Excellent scans, weak software -- 2008-11-01
The Epson Perfection 4490 produces excellent scans of both opaque material, such as post cards and photos, and transparent material, such as slides and negatives. I was even able to scan 2.25" x 2.25" (120) mounted Ektachrome slides by removing the gate that holds medium format film in place. The gate is easy to remove and replace. This was important to me as I have many medium format slides in need of saving to digital format. The picture post card I scanned showed no moire artifacts and captured the colors perfectly.
The OCR software seemed limited and became confused if anything outside of standard text was on the page. It did, however, recognize a letterhead logo and captured it as a picture. When a poor quality carbon copy was scanned I spent more time correcting the errors than I would have spent typing it all myself in the first place.
Heads up on the advertisement that Photoshop Elements is bundled with the scanner! The included version is Photoshop Elements 2. That is a pretty old version since versions 6 and 7 are now out.
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 | Visioneer RW120-WU RoadWarrior Sheetfed Scanner
Excellent -- 2008-12-21
This is a great little device that I highly recommend. Only complaints are: 1) the user-interface to adjust image properties is a little counter-intuitive -- you right click on an icon that doesn't seem like something you're supposed to right-click on. 2) Sometimes it is hard to make the paper go straight through without fooling the machine into prematurely starting to scan.
warrior -- 2008-12-20
good product, main use would be for the person on the go scanning recipts and such, scans well, software good, if looking for great quality stuff that scans real straight without any distortion especially on letter size, go with a full size flatbed.
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 | Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner
Performs like an inexpensive scanner -- 2007-10-17
Unfortunate for this scanner, I own a Cardscan 700c which does a great job at scanning business cards and has very slick software which builds the contact list, imports or exports contacts from/to popular programs, creates entries that have the front and back of the cards, has drag and drop functionality, and more.
I purchased this Genius ColorPage BR600 as a gift for my better half who recently became a Real estate agent. Of course, she has seen my Cardscan in action in the past. Her comment about this Genius scanner was "you could tell its a lower priced and inexpensive scanner. If the print on the card is in anyway faint, this scanner will not pick it up". Also, she has business cards that have black backgrounds with white text (business cards of the agents where she works). This scanner can not scan and OCR them, but the Cardscan scanner does well with these cards.
If cost is the most important thing to you, then this is a good product. But if you are looking for a scanner which can scan almost anything you give it, you should spend more and get a Cardscan product.
Item received isn't as pictured -- 2007-10-11
Item received isn't as pictured. Tried to contact seller to no avail. Would like to get it resolved.
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 | HP ScanJet 7650 Flatbed Scanner with Auto Document Feeder (L1940A#B1H)
Decent Enough. . . -- 2008-08-04
I've been using this device for about 12 months now and I'm happy enough with it. Perhaps in the future, I might try this product which seems to get stellar reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000YA1XVG/ref=nosim/gizmodo-20
Yes, it does seem to jam a lot, and when it does, it does seem to be a pain to get it out, depending on where it is. But for the hundreds of documents I scan in, mainly office papers, it does the work well enough.
It creates searchable PDFs, and I simply scan in a document through the ADF, and it creates a file, subbed by the month, and I'm able to later search the documents by the month.
I also use the flat bed for documents that are strangely shaped, or look as though they won't fit the feeder, but those are rare for me.
Overall, I'm happy with it, but I do wish I got the item I linked to above instead, because I don't think I would've expected as much for only $260. For the price of about $460 that I paid for this. . . I think we all expected less hassle with jams. . .
Does not work on Vista! -- 2008-07-25
If you are running vista, save your money! Do not buy this scanner!!! Tech support will get it to print to their crappy software, but your computer will not recognize the driver. You will not be able to use it with any purchased software.
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 | CSSN Portable Business Card Scanner and Reader - Scan2Contacts
Just ok -- 2008-11-04
I had to return the first scanner I received because it did not work. This company does not provide any telephone contact information; you have to go to their website and send an e-mail. However, once you contact them, they are very helpful and very responsive. The second scanner I received does a good job of reading business cards. I do find it is necessary to check the information for accuracy before saving. The only time there seems to be a problem is when the business card is graphic intensive.
Easy to use and works great; directions are non-existent -- 2008-08-15
My husband collects tons of business cards as a small business owner, and needed a way to manage all of them. After reading reviews, I purchased him the scan2contacts. It works very well. You do have to proofread everything b/c it makes errors, but it's much easier than entering everything by hand. The manufacturer COULD include some installation instructions, however. Installing it and configuring was a bit clunky. Overall, it's a good product.
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 | Visioneer Strobe XP 100 Sheetfed scanner (Windows)
Review of Visioneer Strobe XP 100 Sheet Feed Scanner -- 2008-11-02
It is very portable and very useful for a person wants to carry while on the road. it is reasonably fast in Gray and Black white mode. Color can be slow and noisy. The sheet should be properly fed if not the scanning image will not be straight. Image is not perfectly straight most of the times. Soft ware of Paperport is very good has very useful feature in Folder management. Lacks the preview of image before scanning as it is possible in Flat bed. Of course it is not possible to preview and scan with any sheet feed scanner Wish price could be less than $100 for this product. The current price of $179.00 is a bit high.
Piece of garbage -- 2007-08-03
This is my second Visioneer scanner in three months. Bought the Road Warrior, installed it, worked fine. (I agree with the warnings about difficulty in aligning pages to scan.) Then it stopped working. Scans totally black. Uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. Still dead.
So I bought this one (XP100), because I was leaving for a one year overseas trip, and needed it immediately. Yes, I must be a glutton for punishment.
Same deal. Installed, worked fine. I must print, sign and scan docs twice a week. First time I tried to use it on the road, it was totally dead. Got a nice tech guy at a college where my kids are training to help, he got it working once. Next time I booted, dead again.
I will never, never buy Visioneer again. I'm now looking on Amazon for a robust portable scanner to have Fedexed to me overseas by my U. S. office, from another vendor.
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 | Xerox DocuMate 252 - Document scanner - Duplex - Legal - 600 dpi x 1200 dpi - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - Hi-Speed USB
Very Weak Twain Driver on Vista -- 2008-06-05
We use Adobe Acrobat Pro version 8 to scan documents and at the same time we have it perform automatic OCR all at once. Once scanned and OCR'd with Acrobat, if we need the actual text any time in the future we can 'save as' that document as a Word file. It's a system that works well for our office. So, when we needed another scanner to work with our new Vista machine, I read the reviews and the Xerox 252 came out on top.
Like others have said, this is a very nice scanner. The hardware seems really well made - it's sturdy and sounds like a solid piece of equipment in operation. The feeder works really well and in the four straight hours I tried to get this scanner to work directly with Adobe Acrobat in Windows Vista, it did not jam or double feed one single time. But there's the rub: on Windows Vista, the current twain driver (direct from Xerox's website) doesn't work at all with Adobe Acrobat 8. When you go to scan from within Acrobat, Acrobat completely crashes. (Photoshop can't find this scanner at all using the twain driver.) After Googling for answers and trying many, many things, it just doesn't appear that Xerox (or should I say Visioneer) has completed work on their Vista drivers for this scanner yet. This scanner does work just fine under Vista using the included Paperport software (which has some really great features - when you eventually find them in the non-standard taskbar interface), but this scanner should also work directly with other twain compliant applications like Acrobat Pro 8, but it doesn't at the moment. As a result of this, if you need a scanner for Vista that works directly with Acrobat, the Fujitsu 5120 we have works great directly with Acrobat under Vista (although I like the Xerox hardware better).
Unbelievable Scanner - Done wonders for my office -- 2008-04-23
I have now owned the DocuMate 252 for over one year and it is amazing! Our real estate company scans virtually every contract, legal document, tax bill, tax return, etc. with virtually no problem. The scanning itself is amazingly fast (but the lamp first must stabilize when you've just started a job when the machine was dormant - which involves a short delay of about 20 seconds). We routinely scan 40 to 50 page contracts without problem.
The OCR is fantastic, there are multiple pre-set scan options including searchable .pdf file format. We scanned thousands of pages of searchable .pdf for some litigation we were involved in saving us a ton of legal fees. We send out our property due diligence information electronically now. Paper jams have not been an issue at all. I spent a lot of time looking at different brands but I am incredibly happy with this Xerox and am very glad we got a upper end scanner rather than settling for a low end version. Note that it will not do oversized paper (such as our huge property survey's or plans) - we use it only for letter and legal sized papers. We had a very old and slow flat bed scanner - this is an enormous improvement.
This may be the best technology buy I have ever made. We do not have an IT department but both the setup and operation are painless. I'm thinking of buying another one for the house. This is without a doubt the most valuable equipment in the office other than our pc's. I will never work in an office without one again.
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| Genius Colorpage-SF600 Sheet fed Scanner
small, functional, low price -- 2008-10-14
the Genius Color page sf600 scans in good speed and takes very little desktop space. The image on the page is wrong and this is why the previous customer thought he received the wrong product and had to return it. I can scan jpeg and convert it to pdf format. Pretty handy. Scans letter size document too.
Wrong shipment sent: -- 2008-09-09
The wrong shipment was sent to my office. Returned and requested a refund and it was granted. In retrospect, I do believe I read a previous post that indicated the same. I would not waste my time buying one here. Goodluck!
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 | Kodak i 40 - sheetfed scanner ( 888-2649 )
Great For a Small Office -- 2008-09-07
This installed easily in Windows XP and runs great. It is apparently identical to my earlier Xerox DocuMate 252 with more robust plastic trays (the Xerox tray lost a hinge and could not be replaced). Although there are packaged software for scanning, I prefer to use Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Kodak Scanner -- 2008-09-07
Product is great, seller is great, shipped within few days, all in all, I am satified. Tx
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