SCANSNAP iX1500 TOUCHSCREEN SCANNER FOR PC AND MAC (BLACK)
The next-generation Wi-Fi Cloud-Enabled ScanSnap iX1500 scanner comes equipped with a smart touchscreen, providing an easy-to-use interface with simple icons and an intuitive user experience. Now available in a black-on-black color option.
ScanSnap iX1500 Wi-Fi Cloud-Enabled Document Scanner (Black)
The ScanSnap iX1500 document scanner is now available in a new black-on-black color option and comes equipped with a user-friendly 4.3" touchscreen interface for enhanced usability and functionality. With Access Point Connect and Direct Connect modes, users can place the new scanner anywhere that is most convenient for them. The new intuitive scanner also comes with new ScanSnap Home software that combines all the popular functions of our business card, receipt, and document-management apps into one interface for easier management and editing.
ScanSnap iX1500 features:
- Intuitive 4.3" touchscreen
- Scans 30 sheets per minute in color-duplex mode
- 50-page automatic document feeder
- Ready within seconds of opening the cover with Fast Startup
- Scan documents, business cards and long receipts with the attachable Receipt Guide
- Scan envelopes, plastic cards, folded A3 documents, and documents with sticky notes via Manual Scan
- ScanSnap Home organizes scanned files on PC and Mac
- ScanSnap Cloud links ScanSnap to the most popular cloud services, like Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and more
- Cleans up images without the need for re-scanning with Streak Reduction
- Conveniently connect via USB cable or by Wi-Fi
- Supports 2.4 and 5GHz capable routers
- Automatic paper size detection, automatic color detection, automatic cropping, blank page deletion and de-skew
PC features:
- Scan directly to Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® using ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap™
- Bundled with ScanSnap Home and Nuance Power PDF Standard software
Mac features:
- Scan directly to Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® using ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap™
- Bundled with ScanSnap Home and Nuance PDF Converter for Mac software
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Pros: I have been using ScanSnap scanners sice the s500. I use them so much that I have actually worn out a few. We're talking hundreds of thousands of pages scanned at least. This scanner seems to be an improvement over the ix500. It is sleek, fast & quiet. I would also prefer a black model, but that's really neither here nor there.
Cons: The software, ScanSnap Home is definitely worse than the the prior ScanSnap Manager. In addition, the ix1500 is not compatible with the older software. It seems that by giving the scanner and scanning software a fresh coat of paint, they've also dumbed it down to the point that it is not as useful as it was before. I've only had the scanner a couple of weeks, but am at a loss of what Home improves upon over Manager. A couple of examples: 1. My normal scanning profile is set to Duplex scan and set to automatically remove blank pages. In ScanSnap Manager, if I wanted to scan a document as Simplex all I had to do was right click the icon in the system tray and click "simplex scan." Now, I have to open ScanSnap Home (no more system tray icon), click "Scan," then "Change The Scanning Side," then "Simplex." What used to be a half second job is now about 15 seconds. 2. For some reason, Fujitsu, made a small change to the file saving that makes my workflow way more difficult. The way things used to work were as follows. I could scan a document, rename and choose the destination folder and then open in the application of my choice. Now, I can either save to a default folder and open in (for example) Acrobat, OR I can use the "Verify and Save" feature to rename the file and choose it's destination. Why? The only reason I can think of is that Fujitsu wants you to use its could service and scan history program.
Overall Review: If you are not a power user or particular about the settings you may have grown accustomed to in ScanSnap Manager, this is a fine product. I would also like to add that Fujitsu's customer service was very prompt and helpful in helping me determine if the old settings were buried somewhere else in the menus (they're not). Finally, and somewhat humorously, they offered to enter restoring these functions as a feature request but admitted that I would probably never hear back.