Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 Review With iPad and
Wifi Scanning Features
What will it take to get this X.500 others in
the latest and greatest that means that I called the Cadillac of the of home
scanning I I own two of these I have one in my office for a file cabinet
replacement for all the documents that we use throughout the course of the week
there and also have one at home scanning a lot of my personal documents and
among my local Board of Education secret matter how much a paper I get piling
up items like to get rid of it so I do they scan it, I assume I ever go in and
I have a filing cabinet that I walk around with it also masquerades as my iPad
and iPhone and it is great to have a good organizational system down of
atrocities of the scan very quickly in that instance massively scanners are
great for itself if you just if you received here at error business card every
once in a while you probably don't need this this is certainly a lot more for a
people who have a high-volume deal with red take up a big stack of paper here
in and stick it in the scanner wasn't much to it actually once you install the
software that works on both Mac and the PC on the same version of the disc that
comes with Wolf install software Humboldt I just push a button and begin
scanning there are some features that you cannot change.
What it settings you can change what goes
because you quickly this is going in a scanning both that pages at the same
time as we switch to my computer here you can see that it's actually taking the
proper orientation as these documents are coming in so it's detecting out landscape
for portrait and end guessing not just through on its internal algorithms how
it should sort itself out and once the documents are scanned you have some
options that you can do with it and the first of course is the simplest which
is just scan it to a folder secret PDF file you can save somewhere a you can
email the document you can print it out you can do something to where you apply
some OCR and have a PDF that also has searchable text now I do of course I go
right into Evernote and when I hit this at opens up Evernote creates a new
document and I can just put it in there and forget about it worked or not I
Evernote by the way will also do all that OCR for you so you can forgo the
slower process of waiting for the computer to do all of that architecture that
as it goes so, I would recommend using Evernote is due to scans Evernote
directly and sorted out when it gets in there at all thousand features for a
word and Excel and you have a really plainly formatted spreadsheet that was
printed out.
I can do a halfway decent job of creating a
spreadsheet I've have found lots of people just format the spreadsheets really
oddly and it's hard to get them put together a mighty illustrate just how the
scanners configured as is physically it has a neat feature which is a fold-down
door here and it seems pretty simple but this executes the dust out because I
scanners can be sensitive to that kind of thing so it's going to not using it
to fold it up on the scanner itself will turn itself off when it is not folded
position and along the back it's pretty simple he does have a power cable USB
3.0 in this version to work with USB two as well so if you have an older Mac or
PC it doesn't have USB three to work fine either way honestly USB three might
be overkill in product, like this it's not pushing a lot of data very quickly
so on its it's just something I think for future proofing that everything is
moving to USB three which is why it has it on the other thing it has on the
back here is a Wi-Fi switch and the other versions of the scanners I have don't
have Wi-Fi on the show you what that Wi-Fi is for right now and that is because
they haven't Has everybody does these days off for the iPad and iPhone and
android and when you load that up you can basically take a document or a stack
of documents.
I stick them in the printer and the scan
button on the pad and that document is going to get transmitted over the ear to
your iPad and it doesn't require the computer to be on when you do it which is
a nice feature you doing the computer on to configure it but you don't need it
on a once it is configured and there's a password protection so either we can
hijack your scanner we have paper loaded and as you see here gives us the
documents that we just scanned and the thing that it does which is kind of neat
is that it also allows you to suggest that documents to second open it so she
can see here I can get my Evernote which is my favorite place for my documents
to go ,but I could also drop them over to anything else that iOS is running
that can read a PDF file so that is a pretty handy feature and one last thing
you talk about is the inevitable thing that occurs when perhaps two pages or
more gets sucked into the printer ones that have a big stack of documents you
might be concerned that she is that I miss a page here they are with you to
sell out why the great things that ,the scanner has in it is a detection
capability that can detect when there's more than one page like this here is I
I taped a receipt to this piece of paper so I sadly have two pieces of paper
stuck together here in Alaska put it in the scanner and switch back to my
computer here and as it scans in it is going to the text there was two pages
there give me a warning so I can decide what to do like haters keep the scanned
image and move forward or I can discard the whole thing and start from scratch
but they give you an idea where it left off and the fact that you might have to
take a look at the scan more closely to be sure that you didn't miss anything
on that feature by the way also works on the iPad iOS version 2 so must be
something that is internal to to the scan snap another is a a consumable cost
to the printer on overtime of the rollers going to wear out up you just told me
that the improving greatly over the scanner that I bought about six years ago
for home use I handed I've seen it actually work better for some documents that
I know that the other scanner get tripped up on even with new rollers built
into it this one has been doing pretty well with the scanner is rated to scan
about 200,000 pages on the the rollers that included that are included with it
so I would imagine that you probably get a lot like that of the thing
especially a home use we're scanning a lot of documents but not scanning
hundreds of thousands of documents a month so on the spear that Minder might be
consumable cost down the road but I I can cite is from playing with this thing
the last day or so that it feels a lot more solid and hasn't had any news feeds
that I got on my older scan snap scanner so that is the Fujitsu scan snap I
X.500 it is a pretty nice device here maybe I'm spending the rest of my evening
catching up on how the documents that I've accumulated over the course of the
week and getting them into my Evernote is a blindside.
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