Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Expert Reviews

Maybe Fujitsu's design team felt nostalgic for their now-dead printer division, because there's no way around it--the S1500M looks like a printer (or at least a scanner with an identity crisis). That's not a bad thing, mind you.

Lower-res scans are fast. Device is compact. Scans multiple documents. Includes OCR software

Relatively high price. Doesn't work for thicker pages or bound items. High-quality scans are very slow

ScanSnap's best feature is also its main flaw: The feeder technique yields unprecedented speed at the cost of making it difficult to scan nonstandard page sizes. At the end of the day, though, it really has one job-to scan-and the ScanSnap does this ...

Fujitsu's ScanSnap S1500M is the latest in the company's line of desktop document scanners. It replaces the 510M and adds a couple of notable features

We're less impressed with the S1500M than we were with its predecessors. That's partly down to the glitches we experienced in tests, but it's also because the world has moved significantly forwards in the past couple of years. You can now buy an A4 ...