ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner

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 can only repeat what others have said: I love this thing. I looked at several other sheet-fed scanners from HP and others. Nothing seems to do what this does. It is very simple, very well designed, a very fast. My advice is to download the updated software on the support site - scanning profiles is a nice feature. Im a grad student who is overloaded with research and documents - this made it very simple to create pdfs and use spotlight to search for them when I need them.

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 thing is simply amazing. It is the fastest scanner. I cant begin to say how great this is. I have scanned now over 7 thousand pages of files and pictures. The only time you will get a feed failure is if your paper is really old. I had a few when I ran some 15 year old stuff that had been in storage. In that case you just feed a few one at a time and since it only takes one second per page it would still be the fastest scanner you ever used even if it came with no doc feeder. I was sceptical about pictures but when i compared them to my cannon 600 scanner the Fujitsu won hands down. Cannon has been retired. Had some friends over and saw it. They got upset because in their business they have the big honkin HP $2000 scanners and could not believe the quality for being so small and cheap. They too were sold and said they would be purchasing these in the futre. This has helped me get rid of 3 huge bins of files and I can now find them easily on my hard drive. Comes with full Adobe Pro and is awesome. See the pictures I have added for size. Update:Feb 4, 2009. Still going strong and still love this thing. Update: May 5, 2014 Still Working Well

I bought this scanner from Amazon just before Christmas after reading many reviews. I must say it was hard to spend $495 on a scanner when you can buy a cheap one for $79. But wow, am I glad I spent the cash. This scanner rocks, especially with the bundled OCR software. Abbyy FineReader is a little slow, even on my dual-core 2.4Ghz MacBook Pro, but by that I mean it takes about 10 seconds per page to produce a fully-searchable PDF. The scanner itself rips through a page in less than two seconds (both sides!), so FineReader becomes the bottleneck if you you want to OCR a large number of documents. But its not like you have to stand there and supervise. Just dump a stack of papers in the feeder, press the button and walk away. If you value your time, buy this scanner. Some people have asked how well it scans photos. Great! The ScanSnap software includes the option to scan directly into iPhoto. Ive already scanned hundreds of old snapshots that have been sitting in boxes for ages because it was too much hassle to scan them one-at-a-time on my old flatbed scanner. Finally, I just want to mention something I havent seen in other reviews. The scanner is also bundled with CardIris business card scanning software. This software does an OK job of scanning and OCRing business cards, which you can then import into Address Book or pretty much any other contact manager or database/spreadsheet app. Unfortunately its a PowerPC app, but it runs fine on my Intel Mac. The OCR function is not as accurate as FineReader, but it allows you to edit each card before saving.

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.

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.

I bought this scanner after looking for an affordable solution to clearing up the paper that had accumulated in our house. This scanner has been fabulous and is really attractively priced (especially when there are rebates) for a unit used at home. I have been able to clear up multiple drawers from several file cabinets that included: taxes, receipts, recipes, magazine articles, bills, etc. I now am confident that I can actually located something when I need it for taxes or warranty work. The scans are clear and the text recognition is very good. In addition I find the software to be very flexible and works with my workflow. I have two different scenarios for use: 1) Daily As I get my mail and open it or pay a bill, I mark it paid and immediately scan it and then shred it (this is where I cant already get an electronic bill). 2) Bulk scanning Here I will typically sort paper into sets, this is where the software flexibility comes in. I take everything that needs double-sided scanning and is the same number of pages and I set the software to create a new document every n-pages. Then I can stick a stack of pages in that arent related and let it do its job. If I have a stack of single sided items I make sure to mark it like that in the software and everything goes smoothly. Originally I bought this when I was using OS X 10.4 (Tiger), upgraded to 10.5 (Leopard) with no problem. I had to wait till a new driver and software was released before upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard). It works just as smoothly as before with the new drivers. This has really reduced the amount of paperwork that stacks up in the house and with Spotlight on the Mac, I can find these documents way better than I could in my filing cabinet. I highly recommend this product to those looking to reduce paper!

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.

Initially the scanner came with wrong adapter wire. I contacted the seller who replaced it promptly. Prior to my buying this scanner I made some queries with the seller who was very helpful in providing information and assured me that in case I was not happy with the product I could return the same for a full refund. That was great. I have used the scanner for just two days so I cant really say much except that so far it is running very well. For an old and used scanner it is doing a decent job. Specially since I am still in the learning mode. Overall I am very happy with the purchase.