Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner

by Fujitsu

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 188.4 x 126 x 124.8 inches ; 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RUOW66
• Item model number: PA03360-B515
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (199 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 scanner has all the advanced yet easy-to-use one-touch features that made its predecessor the perfect scanning companion for home and office professionals. Now, with the addition of Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Standard (included with the scanner) and a new Vista supported version of the ABBYY FineReader 3.0, the ScanSnap S510 provides users compatibility with the latest software enhancements. One-button scanning to searchable PDF processes are supported, and users can even scan directly to Microsoft applications (such as Word and Excel). There's also a new multifunction quick menu feature for protecting and sharing documents with ease. In addition to the ability to scan business cards, the S510 can scan color pages in duplex at 18 pages per minute. Compatible with Windows 2000 Pro and later operating systems (including Vista), the scanner features a speedy USB 2.0 interface. For added convenience, its small footprint requires less space than a letter size piece of paper. Measuring 11.2 x 6.2 x 6.2 inches and weighing only 5.9 pounds, the scanner is backed by a 1-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
FI-S510 scanner, AC adapter, AC cable, USB cable, set up CD-ROM (driver, manual), CD-ROM (Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard), CD-ROM (ABBY FineReader for ScanSnap 3.0), ScanSnap carrier sheet, and getting started guide.

Product Description

Scansnap S510 18Ppm 600Dpi Usb2.0

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

115 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviews & Questions Answered, August 20, 2007

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BT - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner (Office Product)

I have horrible problems with technology. I buy stuff, and after 4 hours of trying to get it to do what I thought it should do, it doesn't. HP does this to me all the time.

That is why I was floored when I got the S510 working in under 20 minutes exactly as I wanted it to.

You can take a bunch of pieces of paper, scan in both sides, capture it to PDF, OCR it, make it search-able, save it to disk... all by pressing one button.

I am using the ScanSnap filing system software that comes with it. It is essentially a glorified file explorer, except that it will do text in PDF searches for you based on the directory (Or Cabinet as they call it).

I set mine to extreme compression, and full resolution, and then the auto OCR. The software warns you that it will slow down scanning, and it does. It maxes out my 2-3 year old Dell D600 with .5G of RAM laptop, but it gets the job done. I can still use the computer so it doesn't block like I have read elsewhere (maybe for the S500).

This is an upgrade to the S500. Mine was black, not sure what's up with the white ones (maybe mac?).

It comes with Adobe Acrobat 8. This allows you to delete pages, rotate them, etc.

The OCR is amazing. Out of the box, it gets a little confused with i1IlL but so do I, bump it up to the max resolution, and the OCR is flawless.

I probably won't bother with the try & buy Rack2 Filer. Google Desktop isn't essential for searching.

In the hundreds of papers that I scanned over the weekend, I may have had 3 jams which are REALLY easy to clear, and the software is pretty smart about it.

If I had a newer / heftier computer, things would go A LOT faster (not the fault of the scanner or the software though, I watched my CPU spike and slow during scanning & OCR)

This literally was one of the only pieces of gear I have taken out of the box, and had 100% functional within the hour.

My .005% gripe; Be able to tell the scanner "Yeah, don't scan the backs of these pages" rather than navigate all through the menus. But disk is cheap, and I can always delete it with Acrobat later.

I'll recommend it to my friends & customers.

91 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value and performance, August 11, 2007

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Stephen Williams (Mountain View, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner (Office Product)

I have used this scanner and its software for the last 7 months. It works extremely well, is very fast, has nearly perfect software, and is well worth the cost. The bundled software alone is worth quite a bit. Use the background OCR for scanned documents along with Google Desktop Search or similar and you will be able to find things in seconds most of the time.

I scan every piece of mail, receipt, or paper that I get. I can now realistically go paperless - this is what I've been waiting for.

It would be nice if it had standard driver interfaces or Linux support, but I'm very happy with it otherwise.

157 of 169 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for anything other than sheets of copy paper, February 28, 2008

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Christopher Wanko "-C" (Nutley, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner (Office Product)

For the price of the product, and the advertised speeds and functions, you'd think all of your printed material could be fed into this scanner. You'd be wrong. Snapshots will jam in this device. You are locked into Fujitsu's software for scanning. And, you do not get TWAIN drivers for the device, so you cannot acquire images from this scanner when inside a program like Paint Shop Pro. This is a single-purpose scanner: feed it all of your sheets of paper, and it will convert them to PDFs. If you have a lot of paper, then this is your scanner. If you have a lot of mixed media, this is NOT your scanner. Find another automatic document feed (ADF) scanner with TWAIN driver support.

-C