The Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M
Ok, so today, my new scanner arrived. Oh My goodness! I have no idea how in the world I have lived without this device for so long. I’m absolutely out of my mind here on this one. I’ve already scanned about 50 documents. Now when I say documents, one of them was an 88 MB 75 page handout from one of my classes.
I have been extremely pleased and impressed by this bad boy. It might be the most bad ass piece of computer hardware I’ve ever purchased. (Save my 2 Mac Laptops). It takes up little desktop space, much less than the Epson Perfection 3490 flatbed scanner I have. And, for documents, it’s out of this world. not 1/2 bad with pictures either honestly.So first let’s talk about what comes in the box. Scanner, of course, power supply, 4 CDs, some manuals, a feed paper (I’m not sure EXACTLY what this does yet) and, get this, a USB Cable. I was shocked when I saw it in there. It’s a nice white one to match the scanner. The scanner is much smaller than I expected. Physically is doesn’t seem very big on the desktop and when it’s all closed up, it seems even smaller. So here it sits. The picture above is actually mine. I took the picture with the iPhone since the battery on the digital camera was dead. (Another thing I need to go do)So those 4 CDs have interesting contents. The first is the setup CD-ROM. Nothing to see here folks, just install it and eject it. Now for the goodies. Next we have Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 for Mac. Yes, you read that right. Now from Newegg the S510M is $425.00 as of today, with a $50.00 mail-in rebate. (I really have to remind myself to get that fillout out and sent off.) As of this moment, Acrobat Professional 8 is selling on Apple.com for $449.95. So buy a $425.00 scanner, get a $50.00 mail-in rebate and a copy of Acrobat Pro.(I should mention that the Windows version of this scanner does not come with Acrobat Pro) Yeah, ok, that’s a pretty good deal. But it gets better. Because also included in the package is ABBYY’s FineReader. This version says that’s it’s 3.0 for Mac but I don’t know what the story there is exactly. The website says that version 9.0 is the latest, but that’s for Windows. But it works, so I guess that’s what really matters. No, we aren’t done yet, and this one is going to be fun if nothing else. Lastly, we have Cardiris 3. 4.0 Pro is the latest, but I haven’t had time to check if upgrade pricing is available or not, but the full price is $99.00. I have used it and all three are fully functional and don’t nag you to upgrade or buy a new version or anything. All they ask you to do is register. So that’s not annoying.Next… Scanning.
- Software Installed… Check
- Scanned Powered On… Check
- Scanned Plugged into Mac… Check
There are some settings to play with in the software where you can make the scanner push the scan to Acrobat, Preview, iPhoto and others. And you can add your own. I added ReceiptWallet to see if it would work and it did no problem. So once all that’s done. All you have to do is start load the document/picture and hi the scan button on the scanner.There are four quality/speed settings. Listed below is an example of each one. I have taken all the default options for the document in the software simply changing the quality. I scanned the documents to Acrobat Professional and then ran Acrobat’s OCR on the documents. This is the same document scanned 4 times at the different Quality settings. Incase you really want to compare. I did it just because it gave me an excuse to scan something.
I have discussed in other places my paper process but I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it here. Well, this scanner may make me take on the entire world to eliminate paper. Happy Scanning!
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