Reddit reviews Fujitsu PA03656-B005 Image Scanner ScanSnap iX500
We found 8 Reddit comments about Fujitsu PA03656-B005 Image Scanner ScanSnap iX500. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Achieving organization with the ScanSnap iX500 starts with the touch of a single button and ends with a host of productivity features that keep you ahead of the stack
Sigh....what will you guys do without me? What you need is this: Fujitsu Scansnap ix500. https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-PA03656-B005-Image-Scanner-ScanSnap/dp/B00ATZ9QMO
After buying this product.....many women have asked to marry me and have babies. I promise if you're a girl...you'll do the same.
I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap to help me go paperless. It's expensive ($400), but the thing is a beast. It's really fast and it can OCR your documents immediately while it scans the documents. So you can turn all your papers into searching electronic PDF's very easily. Buy a shredder, and all those papers sitting around will be gone.
my ScanSnap S1500M has held up well for over five years of moderate use, but i seriously doubt it is BIFL; the paper handling is very reliable and much more convenient than using a flatbed scanner; on Mac it used to come with a license for Acrobat Pro, which does a better job of OCR than the ScanSnap software; the newer model iX500 is the same basic design, which takes up a space the size of a sheet of paper on your desk; i have not used Fuji's smaller document scanners, but they get good reviews
An auto-feed scanner is stupidly efficient. Heck you could buy it from Amazon, finish your scanning and return it...
The one in my office can do 80 pages per minute.
Flatbeds might be 2 pages per minute. Hippo would be scanning for years.
Have you considered getting a document scanner? A good one can run you a few hundred dollars, but one of my good friends uses one for all of his notes. At the end of every day he takes his stack of notes, drops them into a Fujitsu SnapSanner, and with a few custom Apple Scripts everything gets sorted and uploaded to Dropbox and/or Evernote. Since all of the notes are OCR'ed, indexed, and optimized on the fly, the file sizes are manageable, the scans are very clear, and the notes are searchable. I've been eying this model and will likely pick one up for use this year.
I tried to go the MS Surface Pro route with both the SP1 and SP2 but always ended up giving up due to limitations of the Surface (poor battery life, screen size sucked, the height of the surface itself strained my hand/wrist/arm after a while, and I'm not a huge fan of Windows 8). Looks like the SP3 resolved almost all of the things I didn't like about using the SP1/SP2 (still runs Windows 8 but hey, nothing is perfect).
This one at over $425: http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-iX500-Scanner-PA03656-B005/dp/B00ATZ9QMO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373340677&sr=8-1&keywords=snapscan
I work in enterprise IT. This product is a god send. Read the reviews.
You can also scan and OCR these papers, making them easily searchable and infinitely more available. I got a ScanSnap and never looked back in my work.
Its not an obsession, its from doing thorough research. This past July I was in need of a new laptop for work, I tested out the 2015 13" rMBP for 14 days and ended up returning it and then getting an XPS 13 9350. Right now the XPS 13 is the laptop to beat. At $800-900 its an exception value. A comparable Macbook Pro would be $1300, well over $500 for similar specs.
I do the same thing with every electronic purchase. I just spent the last week researching duplex document scanners. I finally ended up with the Fujitsu X500i. Yes its more expensive than what I wanted to spend but its the best value when it comes to performance per dollar.
I'm not pro Apple, I'm not pro Android. I'm anti Fanboy and pro technology.