What is a Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanner?

For over six years, Fujutsu have been rolling out fully featured, small footprint document scanners, with the emphasis on productivity.  Features include multisheet feeders, duplex scanning and creation of searchable pdf documents, all at the touch of a button.

Popular models like the ScanSnap S500 and S510 have now been superceded, however there are similarities between different models.  For this post, we will discuss the more recent Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 scanner.

Features

• One button scanning – just insert document and press ‘Scan’ button
• Searchable PDF creation – scanned images are converted back to text – search for text within pdf document
• Up to 20ppm, double sided (duplex) color scanning
• Up to 50-page Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
• Intelligent paper feed detection – detects when more than one sheet has been pulled through
• Comes with Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Standard – modify pdf documents after scanning or add password protection
• Comes with ABBYY FineReader (Windows) –  scan editable text directly into Microsoft® Word and Excel

Considerations

• Mac users – search for ‘M’ suffix on model number, ie Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M
• The ScanSnap s1500 is optimised to work with Adobe Acrobat and is not provided with a TWAIN driver

Find out more

Fujitsu ScanSnap Portal

Independent Review – TestFreaks.co.uk

Where to find one

Alternatives

Xerox DocuMate 152, HP Scanjet N6010, Xerox DocuMate 515