ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner

This is a great machine. It works right out of the box. It is amazingly fast and simple to use. Quiet too. My old multifunction just cant compete. It is now in the basement. Installation is simple. Is much smaller than you would imagine and has a very small footprint. I use this in a home office to scan important documents, receipts, etc. One can actually imagine going paperless. Has a very solid feel. Simple and straight-forward design. One thing to keep in mind, to be able to use the auto-scan button on the scanner you need to have the scan manager software configured as a startup option, the auto scan button only works when the software is up and running. This is easy to do and only puts an icon on your dock. I wish all products were this well designed and useful. This is the Ferrari of scanners. Before I bought it I wondered about the comparatively high price, but after using it, Ive concluded it is actually a bargain compared to the alternatives. Well worth the money due to its speed, design, and quality of output (I havent tried it with photos, only text, magazines, and similar). Pros: simple installation speed small size solidly built good easy to use design high quality scans of documents Cons: One small software glich -- custom file naming is rudimentary and standard built in file naming options are limited. This could be improved.

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 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

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.

Have now had this for almost 3 years. Fantastic product! Easy to use. Great form factor (folds up when not in use, does not take up a lot of space). Occasionally the page feeder will feed more than one page at a time and have to start a scan again but that is a rare occurrence. Lots of settings that enable great flexibility re: how an item is scanned / what done with it after the scan completed. Would highly recommend. 2015-09-14 : scanner still going strong. use it all the time. More than 90,000 pages scanned and still going strong... Mostly paper scans but have also scanned thousands of photo prints I took in pre-digital camera days...Dont know what i would do without this little machine.... It has let me go about as digital as possible.

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!

We bought this scanner a few years ago after doing a lot of research. I think it paid for itself in terms of time saved, within the first month of use. It has continued to give us outstanding service all this time. I never had much success with the Cardiris but we have been so thrilled with its other functions that this is a minor regret. We are getting ready to buy a new one (newer model?) for home and bring the old one to our second house because, no matter where you are, there are always papers to be reckoned with, and this little machine makes short work of them!

Ive used a few auto-feed scanners over the years from Visioneer and HP in an attempt to create a paperless home office. All of them have had one thing in common. They were frustrating to use. They jammed frequently, had poor drivers, etc. This one does not fit that profile. I was initially a bit leary of the price. $400+ for a home scanner was a bit of a pill to swallow. Having used this scanner for a few months now, Id have to say Id be willing to pay more! It is an absolute joy to use. It plows through my bills, receipts, statements, whatever, with not a single hiccup. It hardly even blinks when I give it crinkled and folded paper (although it has its limits). I got a pleasant surprise recently when I decided to scan a bunch of store receipts. You know the 3-inch wide by 12 inch long kind? No problem. Even if the auto-feeder sucked it through a little crooked, the software straightened it right back out. Wow. ...and the speed. Holy cow. It flies. Having a full Acrobat Pro license included is a heck of a nice bonus.

The speed at which this product scans the paper is amazing. And it scans both sides at the same time. Butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Im impressed. Im horrible at keeping up with paperwork and Im hopeful that this will help my ADD self get a little more organized. When the kids bring papers home, calendars, phone lists, field trip permission slips, fundraiser paperwork.. I will scan it so WHEN (not IF) I lose it, I can reprint it. YES. Ive been saving my sons Kindergarten work but I decided to scan it and save it. INCREDIBLY fast and does a beautiful job. I like to think Im up to date on the latest and greatest but Ive never seen anything work this well. I scanned documents that I know I couldnt replace if I lost them.. I scanned artwork from my kids.. things that Id like to keep but with 6 kids I just dont have room to keep the original items. What a great product. Worth the price.

If you have Snow Leopard, or planning to upgrade dont buy this scanner. It was great until I upgraded to Snow Leopard now its just a paper weight. I cant use it until they come out with an update to fix it. Fujitsu says it could be until the end of December before I could use it again. Hopefully its fix before tax time because that was the reason I bought this thing.