Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Expert Reviews

Make The Paperless Office A Reality

Fast fast, fast. Good image quality for text and business graphics. Easy to use. Can scan varying paper sizes in a batch.

Mediocre photo reproduction quality. Pricey.

. Attack that mountain of documents with the S510M. It'll put you one step closer to the paperless office

If you want to turn your paper archives into searchable PDFs, it doesn't get any easier than the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M. At $495 it's not cheap-but its bundled software alone is worth far more than the scanner itself.

Automatic two-sided scanning ; fast ; automatic OCR ; handles small and oversize pages

Quick Menu feature doesn't work with Entourage ; OCR software can't keep up with scanner ; fairly expensive

Unlike flatbed scanners made primarily for scanning images, the ScanSnap has a compact, upright design more appropriate for scanning documents. It can churn through stacks of up to 50 sheets of paper at a time, scanning both sides of the page at once ...

If you need to keep track of your documents, the ScanSnap S510M is a price-effective means to do so.

Compact, efficient, capable, excellent quality scans, fast

Too expensive for casual users, no film scanner, no support for TWAIN

There's much that's good here, although the ScanSnap is not really appropriate for creative studios and too expensive for casual users. The target market of SoHo and business users must really want Acrobat 8 Professional, and for them it's an ...