Fujitsu SCANSNAP S1100i MOBILE SCANNER PC/MAC

5 stars is exactly what this product is. I am a scan aholic. I scan EVERYTHING for my business. invoices, pay stubs, estimates, checks, everything. I have not had 1 single problem with this product. I used to use a printer/scanner/fax but that got old quick. took to long. lift the cover up and down. this is a product that is compact and AWESOME. ive scanned easily over 2000 pieces of paper. from 8x1/2 x 11, business cards and pay stubs, and not 1 single problem. its so easy to use. open the scan folder, open your scanner and away you go. I'm VERY meticulous on what I buy and how the product works so im not just ranting and raving on some product I purchased on amazon. this is worth every penny. you get what you pay for. you pay for less, you will get less. if you need to scan a bunch of papers, business, personal, whatever... this is a great product. portable. small. perfect. I really can't say much else. nothing bad to say. and it takes a great product for me to give it a 5 star rating. well done Fujitsu. very surprised but blown away. if you need a scanner this is perfect. the one detail you need to know is that it only scans paper that's no wider then 8-1/2". nothing wider. big deal. great product.

This little scanner is awesome. I use it for scanning receipts and other paperwork. I love that it's USB powered. Thus I can simply attach it to the computer wherever I'm setting and I don't have to mess with a wall wart. It's quite fast which is another plus. Finally, the little Mac application that comes with it has some very nice bells and whistles. Switching between JPEG and PDF output is done from a pop-up from its icon in the task bar so no diving down into a bunch of menus. There are several options for automatic file names. Three formats for naming with a date and time, a custom filename with an optional count, and in either case, the option to have it pop open an open dialog box with your chosen name in it so you can change the name on the fly. JPEGs and PDFs can have separate settings. It does multipage PDFs if you want. Plus there's a bunch more options I've never used. All in all it's very full-featured and the options work the way I want them too. It's one thing to have a bunch of options. It's another to have a well thought out interface that makes those options easy to use. That's what the ScanSnap S1100i has.

In essence, if this little guy's performance is analogous to other larger capacity Fujitsu scanners, I'm going to switch completely to Fujitsu for all of my desktop sized document imaging/OCR'ing requirements. I use a Documate 262 (duplex sheet fed) at work, a Brother MFC (duplex sheet fed) at home and this one for when I'm away from home/office. I've had to use desktop scanners for projects that technically require much higher grade paper handling/imaging equipment, but it also allows me to really get a feel for things that work... or not.I pulled this out to see how it would do after getting Microsoft'd again with a recent primary computer upgrade which included Windows 10, which has caused all my other scanners to no longer work and trying this was a "Hail Mary" before risking a purchase of another desktop grade document scanner. Thanks to Microsoft, I'm now using it, for now, as my go-to general purpose scanner for receipts, bills, invoices, etc... although, sometimes it is a little painful that it's not duplex, but this thing is a life saver. Before that, I've had it on the side for about three years for trips & on-the-spot imaging tasks. Its image quality has ALWAYS performed well beyond my expectations and saved me countless hours of data cleaning.General Performance:Between the software and the hardware, everything I've put through this scanner images straight even when most other sheet-feed scanners would leave the images really crooked. The images are surprisingly good; in fact, if you don't have a well-defined requirement for high volume duplex imaging, you should give this some serious consideration. I thought, for sure, this thing would produce crooked images (especially with receipts), but the deskewing algorithms in the software are very good... and I'm extremely picky on image quality vs. OCR processes.Data Collection Performance:The pre-packaged software has performed very well for me. I initially purchased it to expedite data collection of materials that had to be destroyed immediately after analysis was complete. So only printed documents are provided. This scanner reduced a day and a half of 6 people manually collecting and double checking data to about 1 minute to get the data from paper to CSV (or XLXS), and about 10-15 minutes of cleaning and QA to get started on analysis. That is a HUGE benefit that allowed us to cut the number of people sent on the trip and the number of days we have to pay people to be there... and this is for data with a zero tolerance for error.I cannot attest to how well this scanner will work with other vendors' software such as an OCR data collection system (I use TeleForm, and InputExcel in the past), so my recommendation is to use the software from Fujitsu and use that get your images into whatever format you need, and then transfer into whatever specialized system you perform whatever other processing is needed. After all, this scanner is just insurance for situations like that.The receipt scanning software is very clean... minimal correction needed. The only corrections I've had to do so far is for novel receipt formats that have more than one tax lines (thank you Utah) that aren't just aggregated into a single number that can't be unpacked and accounted for without performing a regression analysis on every line item in every receipt.My only issue with the receipt scanning software is (and I've only just started using it, so this may already be possible), I would like to add columns for tips, and receipts that have more than one tax broken out. That way it'd be easier to account for what sales tax was actually paid. Such is the curse of being a quantitative analyst... I can't stop myself from analyzing things just... a... little... bit... more... accurately.