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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner Product Brand : Fujitsu Model : FI-S1500 |
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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner Features
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner |
 Turn a stack of files into secure digital documents. |
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The ScanSnap S1500 offers resolutions of up to 300 dpi--color or grayscale--without sacrificing speed. With the touch of a single button, you can scan up to 20 double-sided pages per minute.
You won't need to do a thing to ensure that your scans look their best, because the S1500 comes equipped with paper-feed detection to monitor page size, as well as color and black-and-white detection. Better still, the scanner automatically rotates, crops, or de-skews documents.
If a small document (such as a receipt or business card) is mixed in with a stack of larger documents, the ScanSnap S1500 can be set to automatically increase the resolution of the small document to help ensure that finer print is discernable. What's more, an interactive interface allows you to choose to easily and quickly bypass double-feeds such as taped-receipts on expense reports.
Four Software Packages Included for Document Organization and Protection
When it comes time to manage your digital files, use one of the four software packages included with the S1500. View, manage, and edit PDF and JPEG files using ScanSnap Organizer 4.0. Or, to do more than just view and print PDF versions of your documents, try Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard. This package allows you to create digital IDs and implement password protection to keep confidential documents safe.
To convert your paperwork into editable text, try ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 4.0 PC Edition. Alternatively, use CardMinder 4.0 to quickly scan business cards, extract the contact information, and place it into editable fields that can be exported to Excel, Outlook, and other contact managers.
What's in the Box
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Scanner, A/C power cord, and software bundles (Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard, ScanSnap Organizer 4.0, ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 4.0 PC Edition, and CardMinder 4.0).
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Good hardware but no twain driver is a primary limitation : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe Bundle Sheet-Fed Scanner
So far, I love this machine! I originally bought it to digitize my book collection (I recently retired and will be sharp 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 motor hasn't even started breathing heavily. The foot print is small when folded up and doesn't growth much when opened up. Firing up the motor is as uncomplicated as opportunity the top cover. opportunity 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 primary to clear all paperwork from the desktop to use the scanner.
It's most impressive attribute has been its thinkable, 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 assuredly scanning. The same will be roughly be true with books (mostly exquisite 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 primary 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 ended 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 polite 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 join pages were'nt quite separated. The jams are rare and when they do occur, are easy to deal with.
Post edit: whatever 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 estimate of cleaning would eliminate that dust from the cut edge since more would crumble off in the scanner. Because of the large estimate of dust, some managed to work its way inside the motor 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 roughly 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 estimate 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 construct for dusting off Lcd Tv screens. The unit has been working fine ever since. If, after any 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 estimate in the covers, which I didn't assuredly care about as long as they are readable so the motor would still be appropriate for book scans.
Quality of magazine and book scans is not exquisite but is still pretty good, depending on the material being scanned. Because magazines are loaded with color and grayscale illustrations, it is primary 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 examine for this application. This means it will be impossible to read scans on whatever 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 ability 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 assuredly 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 inherent 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 great results with magazines. Even though the Ocr for making searchable Pdfs is slow, the desirability of being able to hunt magazines (all are tech or history related) outweighed my impatience. Even then, the allembracing 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 sharp and did not always yield good results. Concatenating files was a pain sharp copying and pasting into a Word doc, then converting to Pdf with a virtual printer. The s1500 can be set to whether scan pages into individual files or concatenated ones. The speed and ability 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 motor was not convenient 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 great ability 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 motor 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 first settings were made, was load about 10 or so photos into the machine, press a button (the only button), wait a bit for the motor to suck in them, then load in some more photos from the same batch. The only setting that needed changing between batches was the file name. The motor would automatically append the photo estimate after the batch name on each photo. The supervene 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 ability 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 roughly 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 length 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 ability of photos scanned on the s1500 is good adequate 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 thinkable, involves my current scheme 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 take off 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 join of pages. I found it was primary to first scan to Jpegs, then join them in Adobe. Scanning directly into Pdf resulted in lower scan ability 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 ability is ordinarily better.
The deskew feature worked like a champ...most of the time. Every once in a great while, regularly on a page with a predominance of graphics, it would lock on a near horizontal line and assuredly skew a page going straight 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 fancy container 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 enterprise cards and it's not that big a deal to manually change 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 briefcase ideas and have been satisfied with that ideas so I don't need the Snap Scan Organizer. Again, having only one data base is more efficient. I read in a recap 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 allembracing computer time. Since all I ever use is SnapScan Manager, I removed all the other programs from the startup sequence. I tried removing SnapScan owner 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 assuredly big gripe is not being able to adjust scan exposure on whatever other than black and white. That is a Huge problem. There should be an selection to convert 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 whole 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 assuredly fragile documents. Even ripped documents are more assuredly taped than scanned using the carrier sheet. And there is always the Epson I can fall back on.
The documentation that comes with the motor is not as good as I would like. One receives two sizeable manuals, set up and protection precautions, but each one has only a few pages in each of any languages. I cut out the few English pages, scanned them, then tossed the manuals. There is a more allembracing manual accessed from ScanSnap owner or the right click menu in the tray icon. I found it sharp 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 straight through the documentation is a pain because it is broken up into umpteen dozen separate documents that troops 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 motor 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 each year power bill. I would have been willing to pay more for a motor that had an onboard power supply, even if it was a tad bigger, so the Ac could be turned off when the motor was not in use.
Despite my complaints, I'm giving this motor five stars plainly because it has wildly exceeded my expectations and, due to the time it is rescue me, worth every penny I paid for it, especially since Adobe Acrobat 9 appropriate ($236 on Amazon) was packaged with it. Keep in mind this is not a do all motor but it does what it was intended (and then some) exceedingly well.
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