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.

Outstanding little scanner and supporting software ecosystem. I purchased this for my wife to scan the thousands of small family and historical photographs she's accumulated over the years, and to digitize them for use with her online genealogy system (Ancestry). The software installation on to her iMac 27" running Yosemite (OS X 10.10.1) was flawless, albeit quite long (it took about 10 minutes beginning to end). The scanner and software worked perfectly from the moment we opened it, placed a photograph in it, and pushed the blue "scan" button. The S1100i appears to be the updated (late-2014) version of the venerable SnapScan 1100, but after a cursory 15-minute glance online, I wasn't able to locate any further information on the differences. I noticed that the sale price on Amazon for the older (ca. 2011) SnapScan 1100 is actually ~ $60 more than what I paid, yet all the information I can gather is that the 1100i is the newest model. So, I can't explain why so many people continue to buy the old unit at a premium... What I can state is that the 1100i scanner is solidly built and feels of quality in the hand. The software suite is well-designed for the "push" operation that Fujitsu has determined to be the norm for this product (and, frankly, after using it for an hour, I have to agree with them on this operational workflow mode). You'll see quite a few people complaining about lack of a TWAIN driver for the 1100/1100i, but you really don't need any software application to "pull" images via this low-volume scanner; you can establish direct push links to any software you wish to accomplish the very same effect. For instance, I setup the software to push to TechSmith's SnagIt image capture/editor, and it worked perfectly from the get-go. For those critics that won't consider this scanner simply due to the lack of a TWAIN driver, you are missing a great opportunity with this little guy. Others wonder about the inability to push mounds of paper through the 1100i; that's not what this minute scanner was intended to do. It is meant for quick, easy, carefree scanning of small documents, photographs, and receipts. Anything more than 10-20 pages (fed manually), and you will probably want to consider a larger dedicated high-volume scanner for that purpose. Pros: 1. Very small size, low weight. 2. Stout build quality. 3. USB-powered, quiet operation. 4. Dirt simple to operate and use; you don't even require a manual as it all just works and makes sense. 5. Simple, specific use, purpose-built scanner for small documents and ease of operation. 6. Excellent software suite that appears to be coded specifically for Mac / OS X. Huge marks on the software. 7. Nice, long USB cord so that the scanner stays out of the way when not needed. 8. Very simple mechanicals, and intuitive operation. You just "know" how to open the scanner to clear a paper jam. 9. Typical Fujitsu high-quality product. Cons: 1. Simplex scanning only. I knew this going in, but it would still be nice to retain this form factor and have duplex scanning. 2. No case; despite the steep price there is no carrying case included. 3. Software is a bit "weird" on installation as six different packages install simultaneously. But, they install without incident. 4. Price is a bit steep, especially when compared to Canon's similar products at a 40% lower price. But, I'm not dissatisfied with the SnapScan at all and feel I received great value for the price. Verdict: The Fujitsu SnapScan 1100i is a clear winner and deserving of a solid five-star rating. In fact, I am so impressed with this scanner that I'm purchasing a second one just for me to carry with me on the road so that I can continue my ongoing quest to become paperless.

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.

Great scanner, very lightweight and portable. It is USB powered, so you don't have to go look for a plug. Installation was easy, and you can use the included CD or via the internet. Software, I thought, was a little more bloated than it needed to be. There are different functions that seem to be in their own little program, instead of just one suite containing the settings and different features. Still, it's easy to use and it scans well, most importantly. You can see different receipts/cards at the same time and the software will separate them automatically. Neat.

This scanner is fantastic ... small size ... great price ... quick scans ... it does everything I want it to do. I especially like the ability to create different profiles for different needs. I mostly use this scanner to scan receipts ... once the receipt is scanned, it automatically opens a dialogue to allow me to give the pdf file a descriptive file name ... then it automatically opens the file in my pdf viewer for me to highlight items and add notes to the pdf receipt ... this is exactly what I was looking for! It's also great for scanning large documents and creating a pdf file for use on my iPad. Update - I just finished scanning a 200 page document and converting it to a pdf for use on my computer and ipad. Not a single problem. Scanning was quick and easy. Very impresses.

Got this to replace the Brother Dsmobile 600 model, which was still mechanically functional but due to greedy Brother's "planned obsolescence" policy was not compatible with Windows 10 anymore (their software/drivers refused to properly work with Win10 and Brother had no plans to release any new OS compatibility updates). Unlike the Brother's model, this Fujitsu's model seems to work properly and is officially compatible with Windows 10 - all I had to do is download a single "ScanSnap Installer" package directly from Fujitsu's support site (don't use any included software on CD's, it's already outdated) and it walked me through automatic installation and updating of ALL of the available software packages (ScanSnap Organizer, CardMinder, ScanSnap Receipt, etc.) for this scanner. Afterwards I just tested out scanning different items - the quality was perfectly acceptable (especially for scanned documents), the document feeder was "feeding" the paper in perfectly straight way and the scanning software was pretty user-friendly and self-explanatory (I didn't have to read any manuals/guides). All in all, it's a pretty nice product for its price, with easy-to-use software which is being updated at an appropriate times (instead of being completely abandoned, like with some of the Brother's products) and good scanning quality. If you need a portable or small-size scanner like this - don't hesitate to try it out, and do it before considering any alternatives from Brother ;-)

Hi All! This is my first ever video review. I don't typically make video reviews but I wanted to show the speed of the scanner and some cool features I found, especially since I couldn't find any other video reviews. I was initially on the fence going for this scanner because there was a cheaper "Brother" brand scanner that was a little over half the price of this one. But after receiving the product and using it for less then 10 minute I knew I had made the RIGHT CHOICE! This scanner is great, but here are a few specific standouts: (1) it's fast and feeds well; the rate at which it will scan a color document at 300/600 dpi is awesome, no more then maybe 6 seconds? This is a huge improvement over my last scanner, which was a flatbed CannoScan LiDE 60... which was kind of old anyway, so maybe not the best benchmark. I like how it can take doc after doc to create a multi-sheet PDF. Which brings me to my next note... (2) awesome software. Typically I hate installing software from manufactures because lets be honest, typically not very efficient and very bloated. And while the ScanSnap software is heavy (a few hundred mb) what it can do is well worth the trade. The software allows this product to "dual scan" where you can take two smaller documents (like business cards) and scan 2 AT THE SAME TIME, while the software will recognize each object as its own scanned file. WOW. The software can also port directly to its complain software for general archiving and card management, as well as to dropbox, google docs, saalesforce, ABBYY... etc. (3) and just more from an aesthetic.. this thing looks nice. (who doesn't like blue LEDs?) The only con I have with it is that while it looks nice, it is plastic, and I sometimes worry that i'm going to rip either the feeder tray off or the guide tray off... but that's more of me just being clumsy. All-in-all a great buy. If you're looking to move paperless (which is why I bought this) this is the way to go. You get what you pay for!

DO NOT INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE ON A MAC FOR ANY REASON! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!! If you are a Mac user, BEWARE!!!! Under the latest Mac OS, Catalina, applications must be granted access to your file system. This was done by Apple to greatly increase security, preventing malicious software from accessing system files, even if you ran the application. The ScanSnap Home software will not even start unless granted access to the *entire file system*. It simply presents an error message demanding that the user grant it such access. There is absolutely no justifiable reason that a program which only needs to save a file to a folder the user directs it to needs access to the entire file system. It literally only needs access to the one folder you, the user, tell it to save to. To put it in perspective, not even anti-virus software needs this level of access. Fujitsu's tech support have been unhelpful, simply stating that they "need" this access. I've been working in cyber security since the early 1990s. They do not. There are only two reasons that their software needs access to the entire file system: 1) it contains extensive malware/spyware and is therefore malicious software 2) it is written by incompetent and lazy developers, who do not care about the quality of the software they produce, have zero knowledge or care about the security of their software, which likely means that the software is rampant with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious users If you are a Mac user, do not buy this product. If you already own it, delete ScanSnap Home software immediately. Demand that Fujitsu either fix their software, or refund your money.

I've been using full size Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners at work for several years, so when it came time to replace my flatbed scanner, I opted for the speed of a ScanSnap feeder scanner (they are easily 5-10 times as fast as a similarly priced flatbed scanner) While this one doesn't do duplex , but it does scan in multiple resolutions and is nearly as quick as the full size model (although a 3rd of the price). I've fed photographs, legal and letter sized documents, and business cards, and nothing has gotten damaged or jammed. Take note that the widest document is 8 1/2 " (maybe A4 will work...I'm in North America, so I'm not sure)

Wonderful product, fulfilled my long term requirement at an affordable price. Very easy & smooth installation process. Quality of the output is top class. Scanning is very very easy.

Very excited about this scanner. Clean copies. Installed easy and fast. I was concerned at first because it came with an instal disc for the software and my tiny Pc has not disc drive but the software was easy and fast to download from the website. It is small and perfect for my cluttered work space.

The ScanSnap takes very little desk space. Scanning quality is good and the software was easy to install.