Xerox DocuMate 152 Color Sheetfed Duplex Scanner with One Touch PDF and VRS Image Enhancement (XDM1525D-WU)

by Visioneer

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 12.2 x 5.6 inches ; 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F1WE5S
• Item model number: XDM1525D-WU
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #38 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Xerox DocuMate 152 Color Document Scanner scans up to 18 pages per minute (ppm) and 36 images per minute (ipm), includes a 50-page automatic document feeder, and has the ability to automatically scan documents in searchable PDF files. The Xerox DocuMate 152 is designed specifically for desktop use and incorporates Visioneer OneTouch technology for eliminating multiple steps in sending scanned documents to predetermined applications or devices.

Scan up to 18 pages per minute and 36 images per minute. View larger

The DocuMate 152 offers a professional software bundle that includes Nuance PaperPort and OmniPage Pro. It also comes with an advanced TWAIN driver to enable communication with advanced electronic content management (ECM) software applications.

Scanning at the Touch of a Button

Do you want to do more with the paper on your desk? Would you like to copy it, collate it, file it, search it, mail it and make it disappear? How about if you could do it all with just one touch? The DocuMate 152 is powered by Visioneer OneTouch technology to scan documents using nine preset buttons for your most common destinations, yet they are completely configurable. This enables your document to be scanned with the proper settings for resolution, colour, duplex, auto-crop, autostraighten, file format and then delivered to virtually any application, folder or device--at the touch of a button.

A powerful set of scanner settings to greatly improves the efficiency of your workflow

In PDF format, the user can instantly search documents for keywords or phrases

Visioneer OneTouch

Visioneer OneTouch is an easy to use utility that connects the buttons on the DocuMate scanner with a powerful set of scanner settings to greatly improve the efficiency of your workflow--so that with one touch, the document is scanned automatically to email, or Word, or your printer, or simply a file folder. In addition to scanning direct to all popular destinations, Visioneer OneTouch also links the DocuMate 152 with industry-leading document management software, such as Microsoft SharePoint and Xerox DocuWare--forming an easy to use workflow from paper to a selected destination. A Software Development Kit (SDK) is also available which provides the ability to develop specific links and integrate them into the Visioneer OneTouch control panel quickly and easily.

Perfect Scans from Imperfect Originals

Visioneer OneTouch with Kofax VRS (VirtualReScan) technology is integrated into the scanner driver so that you get perfect scans from imperfect originals. VRS also eliminates the need to rescan documents through automatic cropping, straightening, brightness control and edge clean-up. All this is integrated into Visioneer OneTouch so your entire scanning requirements are achieved at the touch of a button.

Most new users in document imaging are not scanner experts, so simplified, point-and-click solutions that deliver high quality images and integration with business applications are essential.

VRS is the gold standard in image improvement technology. View larger

Kofax VRS Technology

The Xerox DocuMate 152 integrates Kofax VRSTM image enhancement technology into the OneTouch scanning process. VRS is the goldstandard in image improvement technology. Imperfect originals are automatically turned into perfect scans that are easier to read for the human eye and the computer's eye. OCR results are dramatically improved, file size is decreased and scans look as clear as the originals. And every page is custom corrected automatically so you can batch together clean, laser quality documents with your imperfect originals. The results are amazing.

Nuance OmniPage Pro

Provides a precise OCR and layout retention solution, quickly turning scanned documents into editable, formatted text. The text can then be used in virtually any word processing, desktop publishing or web publishing program.

Text Searchable PDFs

Transform volumes of paper or photos into organized digital files that can be quickly found, used and shared. In PDF format, the user can instantly search documents for keywords or phrases. This provides additional archival benefits beyond traditional storage, and the widely accepted PDF format lets everyone view and print documents--on any computer.

Nuance PaperPort

Millions of professionals rely on PaperPort to save time and money by transforming paper documents into searchable digital documents. PaperPort combines the efficiency of document management, the convenience of superbly scanned documents and the power of creating PDF files, to bring a new level of operational proficiency to you organization.

What's in the Box

Xerox DocuMate 152 Scanner, power supply, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install Card, Technical Support Card, DVD-ROM including drivers and bundled software.

System Requirements

• Pentium IV or equivalent
• Windows 7, Vista, XP SP1 & 2 or 2000 SP4
• 512MB RAM (1GB for Windows 7)
• 350MB free hard disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• Available USB Port

Technical Specifications

• Scan Speed: 18 ppm simplex / 36 ipm duplex @ 200 dpi (b/w) or 150 dpi (color)
• Optical Resolution: 600 dpi
• Output Bit Depth: 24-bit color, 8-bit grayscale, 1-bit Black & White
• Scan Method: Fast Duplex Sheetfed
• Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 compatible)
• Dimensions: 12.1"(w) x 6.3"(d) x 5.5"(h)
• Weight: 5.9 lbs
• ADF Maximum Document Size: 8.5" x 14"
• ADF Minimum Document Size: 2.5" x 2"
• ADF Capacity: 50 sheets (20 lb. paper)
• Duty Cycle: 2500 pages/day

Product Description

Xerox DocuMate 152 Sheetfed Duplex document scanner. 600 x 1200 dpi optical resolution, 48-bit color (internal), Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, 50 page Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), 15 pages per minute and 30 images per minute in duplex mode @200 b/w. 9 One Touch destinations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 88 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Affordable Duplex Scanning, but some issues., January 26, 2007

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W. Munro (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Xerox DocuMate 152 Color Sheetfed Duplex Scanner with One Touch PDF and VRS Image Enhancement (XDM1525D-WU) (Office Product)

Finally, a (relatively) affordable duplex scanner with automatic document feed! I literally have boxes of papers and magazines I've been waiting to scan, but have never been able to find a quality, affordable scanner.

For all the good things about this scanner, be sure to read the PC Magazine review (July 2006).

Here, I wanted to mention a few downsides that were not evident from the Xerox product specifications or the PC Mag review.

1) Pages per Minute - the Xerox specs state 15 pages per minute for color duplex (both sides) scan at 150 dpi. Realistically, for anything with images/pictures, 150dpi is too low, so I end up scanning at 400dpi (typically magazine pages). At this setting, the scanner only scans 1.6 pages per minute! It seems that part of the slowness is related to the driver/software, as about 40% of the scan time is due to the driver/software "catching up" with the physical scanner.

2) ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) Capacity - the Xerox specs state the feeder holds 50 pages. This may be true, however, it is not possible to use this capacity, due to what I consider to be a major software flaw. The driver software actually times out after a certain amount of processing time. I haven't found any way to change this setting (nor any mention of it in the documentation). So, if I put in any more than about 8 pages in the ADF and perform a color duplex scan at 400dpi, the scan job will complete on the hardware, and then the software will actually time out and erase the entire scan job! You may get a few more pages by reducing dpi or going black and white. But beware, that you could find yourself having to load only 8 pages at a time.

3) Image lines - the scanner lamp seems to be affected by dust/paper "lint" heavily. About every 100 pages scanned, I start seeing red and green lines showing up on my scans. I then have to open up the scanner and dust/wipe off the lamp cover. This is not as easy as it sounds, as the opening is very narrow, and sometimes it takes 2-3 tries before the lines really go away.

4) Error Handling - I consider another major software flaw to be that whenever a scanner error occurs (usually a paper jam), the software deletes the entire scan job (all pages scanned before the error). So, if you've just waited 5 minutes for a scan job to complete and the last page jams, the software deletes all the pages already scanned, and you have to start all over! Another reason that you won't necessarily want to or be able to use the full ADF capacity.

So far, I'm still on the fence regarding whether these issues will cause me to return the scanner. (I've been using the scanner for about 2 weeks).

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Documate 152 - Small and mostly good at what its designed for, January 27, 2007

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F456 (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xerox DocuMate 152 Color Sheetfed Duplex Scanner with One Touch PDF and VRS Image Enhancement (XDM1525D-WU) (Office Product)

Dainty little machine when the paper trays are in their folded up positions. Still quite small looking with the trays folded out. Have been working with the machine perched on my desktop tower case.

Mostly works like a champ. Once you learn the software and get it configured for what you are doing, you put in a stack of sheets and push the button and (except for problems noted below) you come back several minutes later and you have a PDF with the scanned images of the pages with searchable text.

The caveats are as follows:

While regular printer/copier paper rarely misfeeds, notebook paper sometimes has problems with more that one sheet being grabbed at a time.

In cases where the pages had been torn at perforations (think old tractor feed paper) sometimes the scanner will get partway through a job and then can't get the next sheet to feed without some help from the user.

The out tray has an upwards curvature in it which can make a feeding sheet push around the top sheet in the output tray. Sometimes a previous page gets dumped on the floor and the rest of the output stack is usually a bit disheveled. This more of a problem with wrinkled, torn or hole punched sheets than with sheets in good condition.

On the input tray the adjustable side guides do not go up far enough. With a large stack of paper some sheets will start feeding slightly askew but then straighten out gradually as they feed. The result is a scanned image that has a slight curvature in the image. Cutting down on how many pages in a stack and vigilance on checking the guides to eliminate slop helps a lot.

Have had a few problems with driver seeming to freeze. Cycling the scanner power usually un-seizes things.

A magazine review claimed that the scanner included OmniPage Pro 14, however, mine was shipped with Omnipage Pro 12. OCR accuracy seems pretty good but of couple of options that the scanner owners manual describes as appearing in certain dialog boxes simply aren't there on my computer.

There's a bit of a learning curve for the included software. The front end they created to simplify managing scanning and OCR has a decent amount of power but the interface seems a bit clunky to me for anyone who wants customize for a wide variety of paper sizes and contrasts.
On an X2 4200+ machine scanning at 200 dpi on both sides of page the OCR did not keep up with scanning and the front end does not appear to allow new scan to start till OCR is fully completed with previous batch of sheets so I could not keep the scanner more than perhaps 50% active.

If it had shipped with OmniPage Pro 14, I would have given it 4 stars.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does everything I expected, May 12, 2007

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Paul M. Hyman "veeblefetzer" (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Xerox DocuMate 152 Color Sheetfed Duplex Scanner with One Touch PDF and VRS Image Enhancement (XDM1525D-WU) (Office Product)

I got this scanner in order to convert lots of old paper records to PDF files. It has worked just as I hoped. It scans quickly, even scanning double sided documents in a single pass, and rarely ever mis-feeds or reads two sheets at once. OCR is not perfect, but this is a problem with the OCR software, not the scanner. I have yet to find OCR software that works really well. However, I generally just scan documents as 200 dpi images since I don't really need to convert them to text.