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• For starters, Fujitsu provides a wide array of document scanners that use a TWAIN or ISIS driver but the ScanSnap models were designed with an entirely different concept in mind. Perhaps the best way to explain all this is to step back a decade before ScanSnap started rolling off the assembly line.
• ScanSnap was designed without the TWAIN driver in order to provide a more streamlined scanning experience with a push of a single button. ScanSnap isn’t just scanner hardware, it represents the whole user experience, specifically for those looking for a simple and efficient scanning solution.
• ScanSnap Software Downloads page. Select a scanner and an OS, and you will be directed to the appropriate Software Downloads page.
• The ScanSnap series are not TWAIN compliant, haven't been for the 15 years I've been deploying them (started with the S150). You might look to the Epson WorkForce series for TWAIN compliance.

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ScanSnap was designed without the TWAIN driver in order to provide a more streamlined scanning experience with a push of a single button. ScanSnap isn’t just scanner hardware, it represents the whole user experience, specifically for those looking for a simple and efficient scanning solution.

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• Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M

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Fujitsu’s ScanSnap S1500M is an easy to use, attractive sheet-fed scanner. Its automatic document feeder can hold up to 50 sheets, and it can scan both sides of a document simultaneously at a resolution of 600 dpi.

The compact silver and white S1500M is solidly built and connects to your Mac via USB 2.0. Its fold-up design allows it to take up little desktop real estate when not in use.

Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Manager software offers a colorfully pleasing interface, with intuitive controls and easy to recognize icons. The S1500M doesn’t ship with a TWAIN driver, which would let you initiate a scan from Snow Leopard’s built in applications like Image Capture and Preview, or into TWAIN compliant apps like Acrobat Professional 8, a powerful, and expensive, application which the Scan Snap actually includes. You can, however, use the ScanSnap Manager to send the scanned files to these applications.

The ScanSnap Manager software comes with presets for scanning to a printer, to a folder, or to e-mail. The ScanSnap Manager also shows presets for two bundled applications, CardIris business card scanning software, and Abbyy Fine Reader. The CardIris software worked fine, though a bit of editing cleanup was required. Two of the Abbyy presets, Scan to Word and Scan to Excel, did not work under Snow Leopard during the testing for our April 2010 print issue. We called Fujitsu representatives and pointed me to their Snow Leopard update. I downloaded the ScanSnap update, but still had problems. Fujitsu told me they’d look into the problem.

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Before posting the online version of this review, I went back to check on updates and found an Abby FineReader for ScanSnap update for Snow Leopard. After downloading the update, version 4.2, up from version 4 that came with the scanner, the software worked exactly as you’d expect.

In terms of speed, the ScanSnap wasn’t the fastest document scanner we’ve tested, but was still impressively quick, taking just 36 seconds for our 10-page test and 18 seconds for our scan to Acrobat test. Its one-page test result, at 17 seconds, was the slowest score of four recently tested document scanners, which had scores between 7 and and 15 seconds.

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How we tested. We connected the scanner via USB 2.0 to a 3GHz Mac Pro that had 2GB of RAM and that was running Mac OS X 10.6.2. We recorded the amount of time it took to scan a single-sided document with mixed text and graphical elements at 300 dpi with automatic color settings and 24 bits. Then we scanned that same document to Adobe Acrobat 8. We then scanned a 7-sheet, 10-image job at 300 dpi, with automatic color detection and blank-page skipping turned on.—Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith and Lynn La

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In our scanning quality tests, we found the S1500M to be a solid performer, earning Good ratings in all three of our evaluation categories (detail, color and OCR accuracy).

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Macworld’s buying advice

For those looking to reduce the amount of paper in their life, the space-saving, easy to use ScanSnap S1500m offers competitive price and solid performance.

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[James Galbraith is Macworld’s lab director. Product photo by Peter Belanger.]

• Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M

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  Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Intuitive controls
  • Space-saving design

  Cons

  • Scans of images contained some artifacts
  • OCR documents required some editing