The ScanSnap S500 Color Document Scanner is a true one-touch solution, which enables you to scan directly to PDF, email or file with the touch of a button. This compact scanner encompasses exceptional functionality and is the perfect alternative to faxing.
Superior Home & Small Biz Scanner
Rating
Written By youngtxyankee
Date Written Apr 30 2007
Summary
Our law office bought this scanner after months of aggravation dealing with an HP 5590 flatbed. This scanner outperforms the HP hands down, on just about every factor. ~Installation~ The install was a snap. The install process involved running...
Strength
Easy to use and install, efficient, great value, powerful software, rapid and stable performance.
Weakness
Not TWAIN compliant, no flatbed.
Bottom Line
Great buy: relatively simple setup/install. Super easy to use. Quick and reliable. Duplexes and OCR's great, right out of the box. Very small footprint.
I have owned my SCANSNAP for 3 months now and absolutely love it. It is easy to use and never needs any tweaking. It just works! It is compact, so doesn't take up much space on my desk, and it looks sleek. Just like the Transformer movie, this...
Strength
Compact size, easy to use software, fast scans, piles of paper quickly become PDFs
Weakness
No Windows Vista drivers, not for scanning photos!, no TWAIN drivers
Bottom Line
Small, Compact, Easy to use, fast, simple, reliable and well designed! If you want to go paperless at an affordable price, this is the machine I recommend!
I've bought 4 of these so far for our office, plus 4 or 5 of the previous model. We scan multiple page documents a lot, and these make it really easy for everyone. I set them up to scan where I want, configure a few quality profiles, and the users just...
We are amazed at how well this scanner works! It's a great scanner for a low price. It just has 3 buttons on the front of it for an easy-to-use operation. It scans two-sides with one pass of the paper. It includes Adobe Standard software which is...