Fujitsu ScanSnap™ S500 Pass-Through Scanner

Pros: Easy to use and install, efficient, great value, powerful software, rapid and stable performance.

Cons: Not TWAIN compliant, no flatbed.

The 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.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Compact size, easy to use software, fast scans, piles of paper quickly become PDFs

Cons: No Windows Vista drivers, not for scanning photos!, no TWAIN drivers

The 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!

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Simple to use, works well.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: A versatile, easy to use scanner.

Review: After determining that scanning a large group of documents, such as invoices and repair orders, and making them available on our intranet would make life easier and save time, we chose the S500. It has turned out to be a wise choice. We have put this ...

Pros: Works well, simple, reliable.

Cons: Not TWAIN, if that's what you need.

Review: 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 ...

Pros: Fast, easy, inexpensive, with high quality.

Cons: Needs to be connected to a single computer.

Review: 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 ...