ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner

Tremendous scanner. Software setup went quickly (10 minutes). Fed several scans in - they literally take 2 seconds. Both sides scanned at once. OCR took maybe 30 seconds. Set up different profiles (single sided, both sides at once, OCR) and feed away. Highly recommend. This little machine is going to eat all my papers, and (for me) Im going to OCR them all and have everything saved and text searchable on my Mac. They seriously should set these things up at Apple stores - their sales (I mean Apples, as well as Fujitsus) would fly off the shelves.

It wont be any surprise, given the trend of good reviews, for me to follow suit. I am another *very* satisfied customer. Like one of the recent reviewers, I realized you had to have the ScanSnap Manager open for the button scan to work. If you dont have it open, the LED on the scanner will flash. It works well with the stock ABBYY FineReader, and Acrobat, as well as the DEVONthink suite, and Readiris. Here is a question I had for you other ScanSnap owners... now that youve got this fabulous device, and have scanned up your stuff... do you have an expensive scanner collecting dust, or are you finding continued uses for it? It seems to me, to be able to keep free from the clutter, by digitizing as much as possible, is worth the price of admission.

This is a really nicely made product. The white color complements my Mac and I had no trouble setting it up out of the box and getting it running in about 10 minutes. It is quiet, very fast and had only about one or two misfeeds in three or four hundred pages of documents. Scan quality on the slowest setting is superb and excellent on all others. It is happiest with about 25 pages in the feeder but will go up to 50. The software interface could be better or faster in use but gets the job done and offers you enough options to be flexible and useful in naming scans and so on. The inclusion of the Acrobat Pro software is a nice bonus. Also the covers can fold top and bottom to enclose the unit when not in use which helps to keep dust out. I turned a four drawer chest of papers into a 4GB thumb drive with this baby! I would have given it 4.5 stars if possible - the only ding is the software (at least for Mac). Highly recommended!

Youd think everyone would know this is for Macs. I was reading of Adobe Professional so strongly I was looking to have a black one at home and the white one at work. I got the black one and when I finally get around to using it things should be fine - the white one is now in someone elses home. Wish Id read MAC sooner. Just in case there is someone else out there who doesnt read - this is for a MAC! I could have sent it back but I was trying to think of ways I could use it and 30 days zipped by! Oh well, my friend says its going to help him.

I bought this so I could send faxes from home. I know, you can get fax machines for much less, but I didnt want to mess with shared lines or installing a separate line. The image quality on scanned sheets is great, it automatically saves the file as a pdf and it integrated perfectly with my MacBook Pro. The files work fine with my online fax service and the pdf format makes file handling simple for emails, file sharing, etc. Its a little challenging to get the paper to feed straight for the scan (especially a multi-page scan), but thats the only (minor) issue Ive had with this unit.

I have owned this scanner since November 2007. It just works. I mainly use this scanner to scan receipts for expense reports. It handles receipts of all sizes easily. I do not find the inclusion of adobe acrobat helpful. You can scan to email, print, preview, or file. With OS X Leopard and quick view scanning to file is easy. You can also scan to Chronos SOHO, iphoto, or pdfPen. I really dont need or use acrobat. My favorite application to scan directly into is ReceiptWallet. This allows you to scan a receipt into pdf format and automatically link this receipt to a spreadsheet and calculate totals, categorize, date and describe transactions. This makes submitting receipts to work very easy. Overall one of my most helpful purchases

If you are thinking to go paperless (or reduce the clutter) in your office or home and keep digital archives this is the product you need. I have it for 2 weeks now, I use it with an Apple computer and it works flawlessly. The installation is easy, the software is intuitive, comes with Adobe Acrobat and the machine is as simple as you can imagine. The quality of the scans is great. The paper feeding system works well. Sometimes the papers may get trapped in the rolling system but it is easy to resolve opening the front panel. The footprint of this scanner is very small (it will surprise you) so it sits well on the side of my computer without using much desk space. Something to remember ... once you do digital, be sure to implement a backup system that is automatic so you never loose these important documents. Second, implement an organization system for the files [..] and think about the need to encrypt some of the files that contain personal information ... so if your computer is stolen, you dont loose all the personal and critical information with it.

A friend insisted that I upgrade to a ScanSnap S510....I didnt read ad carefully enough to note that scanner offered for sale was for a mac and not a windows pc.... but all was not lost. My daughter was pleased to get such a wonderful gift and loves it. Me..I went to the Amazon Market Place and purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 to work on my Windows system and I am very pleased. Anyone interested in a used Visioneer XP450 in great condition? I find that recently I have become long on scanners

I have used the product for little over a month now with Apple Mac OS X Leopard. The first impulse I felt after seeing this ScanSnap in action was to get all my documents out of the drawer, scan them all and dispose off the space robbing file folders/boxes or whatchamacallit! Its one of the best investments I have made. It works flawlessly. It gives new meaning to the word ease of use! The inclusion of Adobe Acrobat 8 (not yet fully/officially supported on Leopard but so far works fine) itself is worth the price. Fujitsu seems to have understood very well the concept of elegance in simplicity so much espoused by Apple in its products and philosophy. This is one of those products where you cant think of anything to add to make it better!

I am amazed by this product. All the reviews said it was good, but I was surprised how good it actually is. Its very compact, which I also wasnt expecting. It is fast, accurate, the output is very high quality, the software bundle is very good, although I use DevonThink Pro Office with it as a one-stop shop repository. I only wish it came in Black instead of white for the Macs. I dont know if the non-M version would work the same with my mac or not. I have been scanning and shredding happily. No issues.