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There’s so much to like about the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Anyone who has mounds of paper and not enough space for it all should consider it. Fujitsu’s first software iteration for the Mac is a successful one. more

[iluomo_MW]

I was told by a Fujitsu sales rep that Acrobat comes with a serial number which would allow for an upgrade to Acrobat Pro and OCR functionality. Is that true?

[lhudd]

Can't you upgrade standard to pro anytime? If this is similar to the windows model my old office had, you get a real, jewel-case copy of Acrobat standard with serial number stickers and everything (including a "manual." Again, as the reviewer pointed out, why is this necessary? What about people like me that already have full copies of Acrobat Professional? I'd really like to see the price drop by $100 so I could get it without the Acrobat. All I can figure is, that in order to have built-in scan-to-pdf functionality, Fujitsu licensed the technology from Adobe and the addition of a full copy of Acrobat only accounts for a negligible increase in price.
The windows machine we had at my old office was fantastic. I'm curious to find out if the guts are the same for this machine compared to the windows version. It'd be nice to be able to move it from computer to computer.

[lhudd]

So I got mine the other day, and it's much smaller than I remembered. Very nice unit. The one we had at my old office must have been an older model as it had more buttons, etc. This model only has a single "scan" button and a single power button. This is slick, an icon sits in the dock and has a red circle with a slash through it when the scanner is off or disconnected, and the slash disappears when you power up. Powering up means opening the dust-cover/paper feeder... it has a switch that activates when it's open. Stick in paper, push the button, and boom, scans appear in preview. Very well done.
The automatic color and duplex identifiying works like a charm, it scanned a document of mine that had color on one side and B&W on the flip side with no issues. I'm going to start scanning and shredding everything in my house now.
For what it's worth, I plan on selling the acrobat standard 7 CD on ebay, despite the "not for sale alone" label on the disc. It came in a paper envelope with a pair of adobe serial number stickers on the back., so it's legit like any other copy.

[Blinkter]

1. Gee, that price quoted ($400+) is really steep. Unusual. I got mine in Australia for A$198 only. Must have been the Macintosh software. I got the Windows version (which had Windows Acrobat etc), and downloaded Mac software from the Fujitsu site.
More info: http://tinyurl.com/8ghhp
2. Does the reviewed software automatically perform OCR on the scanned document? If not, how does Spotlight index the contents, and stated in the review?
Thanks.

[sgurley314]

Ihudd, since you own this (well anyone who ownes this scanner) can you tell me this... my wife has taken up scanning the whole families (her's and mine) photographs including her grandma's 80+ year old photos. Many of these are polaroids and/or thick card-stock like photos and many are plain-old 4x6 snaps...
600dpi resolution would be fine for us (I think) as reproduction from this would be fine and they'd be useful in iMovie or something like that.
With that said, do you, as an owner, think this would work as a bulk scanner for her - that is, dump in say 25 photos and keep working, when those are done, put in 20 more etc. She has over 1000 photos to scan (approx).
When I first saw this, I was about to buy it but she is worried that a misfeed or jam could actually damage photos or something. Any ideas if that could be true? Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks!
-scott

[Gregmaster]

I would recommend the Fujitsu Scansnap S510M -- used this to scan polaroids with a feeder to my Mac. You can put around 10 at a time and works fine.