ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner

Honestly, I would have to say that this is one of the best electronic products I have ever bought. The ScanSnap works exactly like advertised. It is extremely easy to use. Just put your document in the feeder and push the scan button. It scans multi-page documents both front and back quickly and automatically saves them in PDF form. You have the option of saving the document as a text searchable PFD. This is a must have product for anyone wanting to rid themselves of the clutter of paper. Works like a charm on a Mac. It is extremely easy to find documents after scanning with spotlight.

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

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

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!

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

This product is a dream. I read all the reviews on this site before I made my purchase. I was interested to see if the features and benefits would stack up to my expectations. Wow! This is the best electronic device I have purchased in years. A flatbed scanner is painfully slow campared to this. If you have a ton of papers that need to be scanned you will be amazed at how neat this device is. It arrived in a nice big box. I took it out and installed all the software on my Apple Laptop running Leopard. Installing the software took less than 10 minutes. I connected the device to my laptop through a USB hub and started scanning. It was flawless. As fast as stated, all the features worked, I really enjoy it. I am now cleaning out all my old files and am excited to get rid of all the paper in my office. I am also considering adding an online backup from Amazon to cover myself. I love this thing.

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.

In general, the product works exactly as advertised: it scans all sorts of documents, and combined with DevonThink Pro Office for Macs OCR capabilities, it does everything promised. The paperless office is definitely within reach with this unit, and Ive been incredibly impressed with the speed of the scanning and the accuracy. It doesnt do such a great job with photos or graphics, but I bought the unit primarily to digitize old journal articles, manuscripts and home receipts. SHIPPING/DELIVERY: I appreciated the Amazon Marketplace sellers who could sell me this unit re-furbished without the bundled software packages of Adobe Aqcrobat Pro and Read IRIS, or the Cardiris software. I already own an OCR program and Acrobat, and did not want to shell out for the extra cost, I just wanted the unit itself. TechGalaxy delivered the unit as promised, in great condition, and earlier than expected even using standard shipping. PERFORMANCE & INTEGRATION WITH MAC OS X (Leopard & Snow Leopard): Set up and installation were very easy, just popped in the driver and installed the software drivers with no issues. In general, I did not experience the technical issues reported by other users using Snow Leopard. This may be because of my workflow with DevonThink OCR, I usually just scan to a folder and dont use the quick menu anyway. Scanning documents and changing the settings between sets of what Im scanning has been pretty easy through the scansnap settings menu. It FLEW through scanning a large file cabinet of things in a single afternoon, a project I thought would take an entire weekend! The reason I didnt give it five stars is because of the issue where the unit does not like to scan longer receipts or times when it has paper jams. These are infrequent in general, and usually because of older crumpled receipts, or old articles that havent been fanned enough (it does sometimes scan two pages at once instead of a single sheet at a time). So its not really a set & forget solution, you do need to watch it or check your docs later. If you set up an automator workflow to scan to a folder, then set up the docs for OCR later at night when youre not working on the machine (OCR is super-time and processor intensive if youre doing a large batch all at once - best to save it for a time you dont need to be on at the same time). I have to say it is AWESOME to wake up in the morning to accurate OCRd, searchable documents that once sat in your file cabinet gathering dust. I love that now I can reference old articles for my research with a few keystrokes! Im a graduate student and cannot recommend this unit enough for academic uses. But be warned: refurbished units do NOT come with the Adobe Acrobat Professional software OR the the IRIS OCR software.

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.

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!