Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 Color Mobile Scanner
by Fujitsu Imaging
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Customer Review: Fast, small and a great value
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using the SnapScan S300 for about a year now and I'm very happy with it. The duplex feature is great and it's been a true workhorse as I've been moving my entire office to the digital world.
Things I like:
- Scans to PDF files.
- Has software for organizing PDF files.
- Fast and quiet.
- Duplex--that was a requirement.
- Scans multiple-sized pages into a single PDF file.
- Files are stored as PDFs in folders on the file system. I LOVE THIS! I'm not locked in to some proprietary system of storing my files.
Things I wish it could do:
- Scan to JPEG, TIFF and PNG files in addition to PDF.
- Let me add meta-data to the PDF while scanning, like a description of what the file is, author, notes, tags, etc. Right now all I get is a plain PDF file.
- Let me search for files based on meta-data, so it's easier to find what I'm looking for. For example, show me all files that are tagged "utility bill." Currently I must hunt through a bunch of folders, hoping I organized things well.
- Let me tag PDFs with multiple tags, then be able to filter/view/sort files based on tags.
- It would be great if the software could encrypt the PDF and upload it to Amazon S3 or FTP the files to set location. Much better for disaster recovery, etc.
But all-in-all, a great product for the price and I'm VERY glad I purchased it.
Customer Review: The must have technology
Summary: 5 Stars
Just like the previous reviewer, this thing worked right out of the box. I installed the software (got the update from Fujitsu) and started scanning. I don't own anything manufactured by Fujitsu and didn't even know they had a scanner option like this. I was actually looking at the Pentax scanner, but glad I stumbled onto this one.
I almost purchased the desktop version, however this portable device suits my needs better as I do medical consulting and often need a way to copy patient documents while away from the office. Right out of the box I tried more than the recommended number of sheets to scan at once. It scanned 27 double-sided documents in 4.5 minutes on USB power (apparently AC power allows for quicker scanning) and no hiccups/jams.
For what I need it for I am not too concerned about the TWAIN drivers for other programs and I have a PDF editor that I can edit anything if I need to. If you use Microsoft Office Live it also has the Sharepoint option as well. The business card scan feature is also nice if you like putting all of your contacts in vCard format. Who wants all those biz cards floating around their office?
If you are looking at this scanner and hesitate because of the price, remember it is an investment and time is money. This will save you a lot of time and clear out your filing cabinets if you want to go paperless.
Customer Review: Scanned over 25 textbooks, Windows 7 Compatable Now
Summary: 5 Stars
I travel or move and or hold too many offices to have physical textbooks, and my-type mind can remember a particular bookmark in a textbook better than a fact, sometimes :) A textbook that uses color on every page will end up around a megabyte a page as Adobe views them as full color photos. If most pages are B&W, 1000 pages can be under 60mb.
The book publishing world is preventing a Napster like uprise in the world of textbooks and I am fully supportive. Buy the printed version, put a 60+ tooth 10" blade on a table saw, rise blade full max, place the loose sheet book edge against the rip fence then power-on per saw manual/shop safety/common sense and cut. Encrypt with Windows right click; store the encryption key on a throwaway USB drive or that tiny memory card your camera came with, the key is well under 100 kb and unlocks your files on other desktops.
Because you are using well spaced, finely fanned, freshly unbound, and clean textbook sheets, you can fit over 25 pages into the Scansnap 300. It is still a chore swapping wads of text, but there is no way I would have gotten this far with the best of flat bed scanners or even a manual page flip camera scanner. A fast computer multitasks well, seems some brains are on the scanner too. I'm still on the same roller assembly after 11,000 sheets no doubt because of the fresh sheets I feed it.
Customer Review: This thing rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am the first to admit that I am horrible when it comes to paper management and physical item organization. Electronic organization is anothor thing.
This beautiful piece of technology is slowly but surely liberating me from the paralyzing piles of paper stacked here and there.
This scanner is unbelievably quick. Think of it like sending a document through a fax machine memory. But it scans both sides. Got a two page document? Put the blank sides facing each other and voila! It's scanned!
If something goes in crooked as it is scanning, no worries. The unit self corrects the scanned image to one that is perfectly straight.
Our health care statements come in double sided: one side is portrait & one is landscape. Lo and behold it knows which orientation each page is and saves it that way in the pdf file.
The filing software that comes with it is easy to use.
If I had one design I would like to change on it is the side height on the paper tray feeder but who cares as it straightens out anything that goes in crooked!
I demonstrated this to a couple of co-workers and they have already ordered ones for themselves! As I showed them the features I kept hearing, "No way. No way." :-)
Way to go Fujitsu! Brilliant, brilliant little machine!
Customer Review: Easy quick paperless office
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had this now for about 3 weeks and paper is fast disappearing from my office. I can put about 15-20 sheets of paper in the scanner (of mixed sizes no less), hit a button and about 3 seconds later a page is in my computer as a pdf file-if it is two sided both sides are there. It is very slick and very accurate. The accompanying software will turn it into a searchable pdf.
I got this for two reasons. First to get rid of paper and second to get things onto my Kindle. I work at a university and most documents I get are still paper. I teach theatre and scripts are paper. To avoid carrying file cabinets of documents and scripts with me, this allows me to get anything onto my kindle. Its big brothers come with special edition Abbyy Finereader (this one does not) that will ocr the file. I got Abbyy finereader pro to go with it and now everything I scan is editable and transfers to my Kindle. It is not flawless. There is some editing to go with a scanned file that goes through the ocr process but a 90 page script took a half an hour to edit. I am pleased.
This is portable. It will run off usb power but is about 30% slower than when running off of ac. But it works that way. I use it at school, at home, and on the road.
I use it on PC's with xp and win 7.