ScanSnap S510M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner

If you have Snow Leopard, or planning to upgrade dont buy this scanner. It was great until I upgraded to Snow Leopard now its just a paper weight. I cant use it until they come out with an update to fix it. Fujitsu says it could be until the end of December before I could use it again. Hopefully its fix before tax time because that was the reason I bought this thing.

I can only repeat what others have said: I love this thing. I looked at several other sheet-fed scanners from HP and others. Nothing seems to do what this does. It is very simple, very well designed, a very fast. My advice is to download the updated software on the support site - scanning profiles is a nice feature. Im a grad student who is overloaded with research and documents - this made it very simple to create pdfs and use spotlight to search for them when I need them.

This thing is simply amazing. It is the fastest scanner. I cant begin to say how great this is. I have scanned now over 7 thousand pages of files and pictures. The only time you will get a feed failure is if your paper is really old. I had a few when I ran some 15 year old stuff that had been in storage. In that case you just feed a few one at a time and since it only takes one second per page it would still be the fastest scanner you ever used even if it came with no doc feeder. I was sceptical about pictures but when i compared them to my cannon 600 scanner the Fujitsu won hands down. Cannon has been retired. Had some friends over and saw it. They got upset because in their business they have the big honkin HP $2000 scanners and could not believe the quality for being so small and cheap. They too were sold and said they would be purchasing these in the futre. This has helped me get rid of 3 huge bins of files and I can now find them easily on my hard drive. Comes with full Adobe Pro and is awesome. See the pictures I have added for size. Update:Feb 4, 2009. Still going strong and still love this thing. Update: May 5, 2014 Still Working Well

This is a great machine. It works right out of the box. It is amazingly fast and simple to use. Quiet too. My old multifunction just cant compete. It is now in the basement. Installation is simple. Is much smaller than you would imagine and has a very small footprint. I use this in a home office to scan important documents, receipts, etc. One can actually imagine going paperless. Has a very solid feel. Simple and straight-forward design. One thing to keep in mind, to be able to use the auto-scan button on the scanner you need to have the scan manager software configured as a startup option, the auto scan button only works when the software is up and running. This is easy to do and only puts an icon on your dock. I wish all products were this well designed and useful. This is the Ferrari of scanners. Before I bought it I wondered about the comparatively high price, but after using it, Ive concluded it is actually a bargain compared to the alternatives. Well worth the money due to its speed, design, and quality of output (I havent tried it with photos, only text, magazines, and similar). Pros: simple installation speed small size solidly built good easy to use design high quality scans of documents Cons: One small software glich -- custom file naming is rudimentary and standard built in file naming options are limited. This could be improved.

This is a really nicely made product. The white color complements my Mac and I had no trouble setting it up out of the box and getting it running in about 10 minutes. It is quiet, very fast and had only about one or two misfeeds in three or four hundred pages of documents. Scan quality on the slowest setting is superb and excellent on all others. It is happiest with about 25 pages in the feeder but will go up to 50. The software interface could be better or faster in use but gets the job done and offers you enough options to be flexible and useful in naming scans and so on. The inclusion of the Acrobat Pro software is a nice bonus. Also the covers can fold top and bottom to enclose the unit when not in use which helps to keep dust out. I turned a four drawer chest of papers into a 4GB thumb drive with this baby! I would have given it 4.5 stars if possible - the only ding is the software (at least for Mac). Highly recommended!

Just received the scanner this week and so far like it a lot. I spent an evening scanning hundreds of pages with no problems. Its very fast yet produces great quality scans. As others have said, this is a great tool to go paperless. Its surprisingly compact and the software is very integrated with Apples OS. Also super easy to get started without reading any documentation (just remember to install the SW before you connect the scanner to your Mac). However, the included Adobe Acrobat Pro Software is very valuable and probably worth reading the manual for in order to get even more value from the scanner. I always read Amazon reviews and never post but thought Fujitsu deserved a few minutes of my time given the great quality of this product.

Have now had this for almost 3 years. Fantastic product! Easy to use. Great form factor (folds up when not in use, does not take up a lot of space). Occasionally the page feeder will feed more than one page at a time and have to start a scan again but that is a rare occurrence. Lots of settings that enable great flexibility re: how an item is scanned / what done with it after the scan completed. Would highly recommend. 2015-09-14 : scanner still going strong. use it all the time. More than 90,000 pages scanned and still going strong... Mostly paper scans but have also scanned thousands of photo prints I took in pre-digital camera days...Dont know what i would do without this little machine.... It has let me go about as digital as possible.

In general, the product works exactly as advertised: it scans all sorts of documents, and combined with DevonThink Pro Office for Macs OCR capabilities, it does everything promised. The paperless office is definitely within reach with this unit, and Ive been incredibly impressed with the speed of the scanning and the accuracy. It doesnt do such a great job with photos or graphics, but I bought the unit primarily to digitize old journal articles, manuscripts and home receipts. SHIPPING/DELIVERY: I appreciated the Amazon Marketplace sellers who could sell me this unit re-furbished without the bundled software packages of Adobe Aqcrobat Pro and Read IRIS, or the Cardiris software. I already own an OCR program and Acrobat, and did not want to shell out for the extra cost, I just wanted the unit itself. TechGalaxy delivered the unit as promised, in great condition, and earlier than expected even using standard shipping. PERFORMANCE & INTEGRATION WITH MAC OS X (Leopard & Snow Leopard): Set up and installation were very easy, just popped in the driver and installed the software drivers with no issues. In general, I did not experience the technical issues reported by other users using Snow Leopard. This may be because of my workflow with DevonThink OCR, I usually just scan to a folder and dont use the quick menu anyway. Scanning documents and changing the settings between sets of what Im scanning has been pretty easy through the scansnap settings menu. It FLEW through scanning a large file cabinet of things in a single afternoon, a project I thought would take an entire weekend! The reason I didnt give it five stars is because of the issue where the unit does not like to scan longer receipts or times when it has paper jams. These are infrequent in general, and usually because of older crumpled receipts, or old articles that havent been fanned enough (it does sometimes scan two pages at once instead of a single sheet at a time). So its not really a set & forget solution, you do need to watch it or check your docs later. If you set up an automator workflow to scan to a folder, then set up the docs for OCR later at night when youre not working on the machine (OCR is super-time and processor intensive if youre doing a large batch all at once - best to save it for a time you dont need to be on at the same time). I have to say it is AWESOME to wake up in the morning to accurate OCRd, searchable documents that once sat in your file cabinet gathering dust. I love that now I can reference old articles for my research with a few keystrokes! Im a graduate student and cannot recommend this unit enough for academic uses. But be warned: refurbished units do NOT come with the Adobe Acrobat Professional software OR the the IRIS OCR software.

I have a Mac computer, which I used to archive scanned documents. Although it works with a Mac computer very well, it uses proprietary drivers, which are incompatible with many archiving programs. If you have to scan documents occasionally, and do not use any particular software for managing your scanned documents, this scanner will do. Otherwise, buy a scanner that uses TWAIN drivers.

It does its job. Really fast. Scan well on color pages but not black and white pictures. There were several pictures from a fashion magazine I wanted to keep so I scanned it in and it turn out really bad. The scan looked like pencil sketchings and you cannot see any color gradation at all (basically black and white...no greys). I gave it 3 stars cos its good overall if you dont need to scan black and white pictures. Plus I think its a bit expensive for a pretty basic function.