| Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Macintosh |  | Brand: Fujitsu
Category: CE
List Price: $495.00
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Rating:  103 reviews
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.3
Dimensions (in): 15.8 x 10.4 x 9.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: PA03586-B105
Model: PA03586-B105
UPC: 097564307584
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Product Description
The ScanSnap S1500M provides Mac users an effective way to greatly reduce paper clutter, storage space, and security risk associated with unmanaged paperwork at home or office. Even better, documents scanned by ScanSnap take on a higher level of accessibility and usefulness once liberated into the digital realm.
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 Works great with Snow Leopard March 8, 2010
Keren N. Metz
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the last few months, I've been wanting to digitize my personal documents and go paperless. Originally, I thought seriously about getting the NeatDesk Organizer for Mac but was discouraged to do so because of all the negative reviews by Amazon customers. Upon reading the MacWorld review on the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M, I decided to do more research about it. The positive reviews on Amazon made me buy it and I got a great deal by purchasing an open box unit through [...].
The installation was very easy and I was glad to know that there is an updated software for Snow Leopard, which installed just fine. I was happy to know that it came with a full version of Adobe Acrobat (even though I already had my own copy).
I was amazed at the scanning speed and the ability to scan double-sided pages. The scanner actually detects a two-sided document versus a single-sided document. Sometimes, though, the scanner thinks a document is double-sided if the text bleeds through the back. That's not an issue for me. If I want to just do a single-side scan, I can just choose the option through the ScanSnap manager software.
The page feeder worked well for me. It even scanned some of my documents that were printed on very thin paper. I read on the reviews that some users had a problem with the feeder jamming. I always stacked my papers before putting them on the feeder so it's never been a problem.
Finally, the scanner does not take up a whole lot of room. When it is not being used, I can close the feeders and it sits perfectly on my desk.
This product is worth every penny and I consider it a good investment towards a paperless home office.
perfect for "going paperless" March 7, 2010
Dan Bikel (Yorktown, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like a lot of people, I still have a lot of paper coming to my home. There are bills that from smaller companies that cannot be made electronic, receipts, business cards and other paper that I have been trying to file into my physical filing system: a filing cabinet with appropriately labeled folders. Physical filing is a pain, of course, so much so that I don't like doing it and paper often backs up until I break down and spend hours filing it all away. Also, physical systems are not at all fast to search.
After researching all the options to have a paperless home office for my Mac-based home, I settled on the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M and DevonThink Pro Office (DTPO). The scanner and DevonThink work brilliantly well together. The scanner is very fast (< 2s per page), and its software figures out whether to scan one or both sides of the page as it slides through the machine, and the orientation is also corrected to be upright even if a document is sideways or upside down. Used with DTPO (which, like the ScanSnap 1500M, comes with Abby Reader's excellent OCR software), there is one-button convenience: hit the large, blue-lit Scan button on the thing, and the PDF+Text document is automatically placed in the Inbox of my DevonThink database. Since DTPO learns how to classify things, I can often click "Auto classify" and the document will then be sorted into its proper folder.
I now almost look forward to "filing" my physical paper because it's so easy and--dare I say it--fun ... so much so that paper no longer piles up. Also, if I need to find an important document, I can easily search, either using Spotlight or, typically, using the brilliant search capabilities of DevonThink (I know this is a review for the ScanSnap 1500M, but in my case it is inextricably intertwined with DTPO). Even without DTPO, this is an excellent paperless office scanner, for its driver allows you to sort incoming documents into the folder of your choice.
Yes, I have had the occasionally ragged receipt that has jammed, but un-jamming is brain-dead easy: you lift the front cover and pull the paper out. Other than that, this scanner has processed hundreds of flimsy-looking receipts, business cards and large, multi-page documents with aplomb.
This scanner is completely compatible with Snow Leopard, but at the time I bought it, I needed to download a new driver from Fujitsu's website (the URL was in the manual).
In short, I highly recommend this scanner to any Mac owner who wants to rid themselves of the drudgery of filing paper.
It really is a snap :) March 6, 2010
Janis
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tried a friend's before I bought this. Ease of use is a must, and this is particularly easy to use. A great feature is that as long as it's plugged into your computer, you can be doing something completely different and scan away - it's saved into your "incoming scansnap" and you can get back to it later.
It also detects different weight and thickness of paper while you feed, and it also sometimes straightens out a scan that may have gone in a little crooked. You can set the default to take both sides OR one. LEt's say in the middle of your scanning single sided documents or receipts, you need a dual sided scan? Easy to alter for the two-sided scan, then back to the default.
I've not had a problem yet.
I didn't order the extra feed plate - don't need it. I just guide tiny sheets manually. It works fine.
Love it.
Where have you been all my life? March 4, 2010
D. J. Larson (Boston, MA USA)
I am not one to take the time to write product reviews, but I am so impressed by the ScanSnap S1500M that I feel I need to do it. About seven years ago I got tired of trying to manage all my paperwork and committed to moving to a paperless home office. I purchased a top-rated All-in-One printer with a duplex paper feeder to do the scanning. I did the scanning with both a Windows PC and a Mac, but either way the process was BRUTAL. Scanning was slow, paper would jam, images would be crooked, the feeder would refuse to accept paper with folds in the wrong places, often the feeder would accidentally pull in more than one piece of paper at a time. I probably lost four or more hours each month scanning all of my paper.
The ScanSnap is amazing! First, it is lightning fast: it will scan a double-sided document made up of five pieces of paper in about ten seconds. Less-than-ideal paper that my All-in-One would choke on goes right through. The images are perfect, with great resolution and automatic image straightening. The options to send the image directly to email, Word, a folder, the printer, and so forth are simple to use and reliable. I have never seen a better scanner. Buy it, now. You won't regret it.
Negatives? Hmm. Well, this is not a negative but just an observation: chances are I would have been just fine with a "lesser" ScanSnap, the 300 or 510. Also, while the software is fine, it is a shame that the "software bundle" is not as rich as that the comes with the Windows version of the S1500 -- that one has some pretty sweet document management software as well as Adobe Acrobat Professional Version 9 (rather than the Version 8 that we get).
One last comment: Don't believe those reviews that tell you that the ScanSnap scanners do not work with Snow Leopard. I do not doubt that this was true when those reviews were written, but these days (I am writing this review in March of 2010) that problem has long since been resolved. I will say that because you need to first install the ScanSnap Manager from the included CD, and THEN have to go to the Fujitsu website to get the Snow Leopard upgrade the process is a bit of a pain. By now they really should be bundling the Snow Leopard-capable CD with the ScanSnap.
 ScanSnap March 3, 2010
Tom (Flemington, NJ United States)
Since I gave up on becoming paperless, I thought this scanner would enable me to have access to the mountains of paper we generate in out business when I'm out in the field. The scanner works better than I had hoped. It's fast and it simply works. We scan copies of contracts, mail, delivery receipts and virtually every piece of paper we handle. We file those documents according to job, client etc. Once filed, we have access to the documents over our network and via laptop & iPhone while in the field. No longer to we have to lug files of paper around to job sites. The only down side so far is that when we need a printed copy of a document we have scanned while out in the field, we are creating another piece of paper by printing it in the field and that often gets tossed after it serves it's purpose. Like I said, we gave up on becoming paperless a long time ago. The software makes the scanner all the more versatile. If you create and or handle a lot of paper, this bundle may help you organize and allow easier access to those documents.
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