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I unbiased received this scanner. I've been collecting a stack of documents to scan and finally ran out of excuses with its arrival. I settled in for a long evening of unpleasantness. I keep the first batch of 6 pages into the hopper, pressed the Scan button expecting a sloooowww, painful grind. But....? Each sheet whipped through effortlessly! Both sides of the double sided sheets scanned on a single pass! Everything was oriented correctly and automatically and the legibility was grand. How did they DO this? I'm worn to scanning taking so long I continually forget what I'm doing before I'm done. This is a whole unique experience. Suddenly, I'm seeing the valid possiblity of reducing all my file cabinets to a few CDs in my lifetime. Wow.
This is about my 5th scanner (HP, Epson previously) but the very first one to choose the agony out of scanning. And it's such a cute shrimp machine. I never would have believed it could enact such a masterful job. It also handles right sized documents - you fold the document in half, it scans both sides at once and marries them support together!
Thank heavens they brought this out for the Mac.
I am using this scanner mainly for food magazines. I have plans to build everything digitalized and then setup a computer in the kitchen. Anyway, I have a stack of magazines in hand. When I finished setting up the scanner, save a page in, press the Scan button on the machine... I kid you not, it took less than 5 seconds for the part of paper to go through the scanner. At first I was like "is it doing some kind of warm up? " But then I saw on my computer hide that it's actually processing the scan... WOW. The quality was wonderful. It's fair astonishing.
OK, let's race it through the OCR. I wasn't definite what to put a question to. You know magazine pages have all sorts of images and texts and they're all overlapping each other. Anyway, it came out perfect, I mean, perfect. I don't know how these guys managed to do that. Although I have to say the color of the page after being OCRed is a bit degraded, but not very noticeable.
So I started tearing up the whole magazine, removing all the ad pages, and it became about 60 sheets / 120 pages. Stack them all up, hit the scan button. Man, that was SO effortless. I carefully torn out the pages so that the rugged sides were not too terrible. I did have to sit next to the scanner to salvage the pages coming out from it, because from time to time the rugged edges would cling onto each other and pushes the whole pile to the floor. Whatever, I can spare 2 mins doing that. I station it to OCR directly after scanning, so I can honest stride away afterwards.
I also aged the Acrobat Pro to retract any more ad pages that were included in duplex scanning.
The whole experience was surreal. This shrimp cute machine gives home scanners a completely unique definition. It makes all other less expensive scanners expensive, in terms of the time you build, and plus the software you gather. Remember, you're receiving a copy of Acrobat Pro, not objective Standard.
I have old the product for limited over a month now with Apple Mac OS X Leopard. The first impulse I felt after seeing this ScanSnap in action was to net all my documents out of the drawer, scan them all and dispose off the state robbing file folders/boxes or whatchamacallit! It's one of the best investments I have made. It works flawlessly. It gives current meaning to the word "ease of spend"! The inclusion of Adobe Acrobat 8 (not yet fully/officially supported on Leopard but so far works fair) itself is worth the stamp. Fujitsu seems to have understood very well the understanding of "elegance in simplicity" so remarkable espoused by Apple in its products and philosophy. This is one of those products where you can't assume of anything to add to design it better!
