Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 Color Mobile Scanner

Great little scanner for your desktop. Installs quickly and is reliable. Only drawback is that it scans all items to PDF file Great organizer for your scans, you can scan to a tidy filing program that installs. Very pleased with this product.

The Fujitsu scanner is a fabulous tool, especially now that our company is Going GREEN with respect to submitting files to Head Office. No more need to send invoices and files via Snail Mail.Also making my job easier as this unit is totally portable and can scan documents right in the clients homes. Great and will recommend this to other colleagues!!!

I have owned, and still use, other scanners, but this one is the best for a small business. Quick to setup and use. So far it has worked perfectly, which is amazing in this throwaway society.

This is not a heavy duty scanner. It is not the scanner to buy if you do a lot of 200 page documents. And its not the scanner to buy if you scan 500 pages a day. But it is the scanner for most of us who scan 10 or 20 or even 40 pages a day who dont need a flatbed. Its simple. Its been great (but not perfect) at feeding one page at a time. The results are excellent. Its quiet. It gets both sides of the page at the same time (if theres anything on the backside, and eliminating the backside if its blank). Its portable and runs off the USB alone (albeit at a slower rate) on the go. Its small enough to take with you in the laptop bag to bring to work or bring to home or out to a site. I have great difficulty imagining how this small, simple device could be better without sacrificing the things that make it great (small, simple, portable, runs off USB alone if necessary). I HIGHLY recommend this if it seems like it fits your needs. It really is a performer, and Im VERY happy with it. One thing Fujitsu could work on: it would be nice if it did not require proprietary software and could be driven by programs such as Adobe Acrobat alone. But the proprietary software is actually pretty good. Everything should work as well as this product has for me.

I have been searching for years for a scanner like this. Im using the scanner with Vista SP1. The software is a bit klunky but it doesnt get in the way, and it only installs 2 things, the driver and the manager (which you dont need). I have the software set to do OCR on every scan and it works flawlessley. In the past few days I have scanned hundreds of pieces of paper almost eliminating my files. I cant recommend this enough.

Purchased this in 2009. Still going strong with moderate use. Heavy use and on the road for the first two years. Loved that it could be powered by USB. Only two complaints are that it wont scan the very long receipts that retail locations now print (more a software issue I imagine); and for some reason I had to order the various items from longest to shortest. If I scanned a shorter document first, the second would have an error. In fairness I did not spend any time trying to trouble shoot.

The Scansnap scanner is very handy, small and does the job. It is easy to use but: - The paper stack holder is badly designed making it easy for sheets to get crushed or go misguided. - It could be designed to hold more than 10 sheets. I would say 25-30 (or more) would be perfect. - It is not as quick as it should be Overall I am happy with it and would buy it again, but Fujitsu could easily resolve those 3 issues and offer the market a great scanner.

I have had this now for about 3 weeks and paper is fast disappearing from my office. I can put about 15-20 sheets of paper in the scanner (of mixed sizes no less), hit a button and about 3 seconds later a page is in my computer as a pdf file-if it is two sided both sides are there. It is very slick and very accurate. The accompanying software will turn it into a searchable pdf. I got this for two reasons. First to get rid of paper and second to get things onto my Kindle. I work at a university and most documents I get are still paper. I teach theatre and scripts are paper. To avoid carrying file cabinets of documents and scripts with me, this allows me to get anything onto my kindle. Its big brothers come with special edition Abbyy Finereader (this one does not) that will ocr the file. I got Abbyy finereader pro to go with it and now everything I scan is editable and transfers to my Kindle. It is not flawless. There is some editing to go with a scanned file that goes through the ocr process but a 90 page script took a half an hour to edit. I am pleased. This is portable. It will run off usb power but is about 30% slower than when running off of ac. But it works that way. I use it at school, at home, and on the road. I use it on PCs with xp and win 7.

I bought this scanner this past winter after returning one of those all in one scanner, printer machines and I love it! I was cleaning out my file cabinets at home and I wanted to save a lot of my papers on my computer since I know Ill access them more if they are saved to my computer then stuffed in some file. I use a really expensive scanner at work and I got into the habit of scanning almost everything at work so I wanted something similar for home but I couldnt spend the same kind of money and I dont have that much room and this little scanner meets all of my needs. I didnt need one of those flat bed scanners because I wasnt looking to scan pictures, I strictly use it for paperwork, articles I rip out of magazines or newspapers, notes I might of taken, and receipts, ect. I can also use it to get a copy of something. I just put it through the scanner and when it pops up on my computer screen instead of saving it I can just hit the copy button and Ill get a print out on my printer. It scans in color and on both sides of the paper and I can scan a bunch of papers at once. I was able to clean up my files and go from two filing cabinets to one! It was also sooo easy to set up as it plugs into my usb port at the front of my computer and I dont always have to leave it plugged in if I need the port for something else. Ive never taken it with me as I dont have a laptop or a need to take the scanner with me but its so light and portable that when I eventually do get a laptop the portability of the scanner will come in handy. I highly recommend this if you are looking for a scanner to easily and also clearly scan your home documents into a PDF file on your computer.

This is an excellent scanner, but Fujitsus consumer relations do not match the quality of the hardware. In the US they sell two versions, the S300 for the PC and the S300M for the Mac. In Japan, the enclosed software will allow the same machine to operate on both platforms, but not so with the US version. So after enlightenment and an upgrade to Mac, I can only use this device running a virtual machine in Parallels. Shame on you, Fujitsu!