Visioneer StrobePro Sheetfed Scanner

by Visioneer

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 2 x 2.5 x 11 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004U8QF
• Item model number: Pro5d-mu
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 11, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Visioneer Strobe Pro5 scanner integrates advanced paper management software with a compact sheet-fed color scanner. It scans up to 8.5 by 30 inches of paper so you can accommodate business cards to full-length news columns. You can also scan color or black-and-white photographs. The software bundle will help you organize documents, fax instantly, copy items, or e-mail documents. The Visioneer Strobe Pro5 is compatible with either PC or Macintosh systems with a USB or serial cable.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use some sense..., February 16, 2002

By 

EgusHdus (Hua Hin, Thailand USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Visioneer StrobePro Sheetfed Scanner (Office Product)

GOOD review follows! First, this is NOT the best choice for PERFECT scans of photos or fragile documents. It does a perfectly adequate job with snapshots and newspaper clippings, an EXCEPTIONAL job with color or B/W letter-size material. It scans for fliing/fax, OCR or color images, up to 600 DPI.

If you are careful, you can easily feed sheets into this device without trouble. Be patient. It has an included software application that allows scanning multiple succesive sheets to one document, for convienence...but you can separate the pages later! Cool. Or you can group different scans to one document later. Cooler!

The image editing software is pretty darn good. Why? Because it has a decent selection of tools while not being overly complicated to use. You can use it as a desktop-type filing system too.

Some versions of the "Paperport" software export scans to PDF! If you understand what that means, you'll jump for joy...

But you know where the Strobe REALLY excels? You can quickly scan a document, drag it to Word and have about 95% immediately recognized as an editable Word file. Very little re-typing. How many times do you need some information IN your computer at school or work that exists only in a printed form? Wow! And you did this in about 30 seconds...

The Strobe is not perfect, but it does many jobs well enough to overlook that it is not the best solution of any ONE job. But it's the 90% solution for a TON of jobs! Buy it. You will not regret it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paperport Scanner, September 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Visioneer StrobePro Sheetfed Scanner (Office Product)

I first fell in love with the Paperport when I bought my PowerMac at home - when I got the Mac in the office I bought one then for the office. Unfortunately for a while I couldn't find them for the Wintel machines. Setting up the Human Resource Database at work I wanted to utilize something quick for scanning and emailing. I was lucky enought to find the Paperport again. So far I have purchased 4 for the office and it keeps growing. They are great - easy, small so doesn't take up much room. I am now considering getting one for my home WINTEL machine. I would recommend for everyone who hates paperwork. A great archiving machine - easy to scan and send documents via e mail. For scanning photos I would probably rate it a 2 or 3, althought I have done it in the past, they don't come out bad. But documents can be scanned and imported into a PDF document or whatever you want. Import into a paint/draw program. I can't say enough about this product.
Happy with my paperport

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wont' work reliably on Win2000 or XP, December 21, 2002

By 

Deane Barker (Sioux Falls, SD USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Visioneer StrobePro Sheetfed Scanner (Office Product)

This is a great little scanner, when it works. It works in conjunction with PaperPort, and the two are just a great combination. Just stick a piece of paper in, and it will run it through, then bring up PaperPort where you can categorize it and group it with other pages of the same document.

For instance, you scan in 10 pages of a contract, then, in PaperPort, you just drag the pages on top of each other, and title them as a group. You can also drag the pages to an FTP icon, an Archive icon (which puts them somewhere in the file system), an email icon, a print icon, etc.

BUT, here's the problem --

The system seems designed for Windows 95 or Windows 98. I have tried to install it on Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 with no luck. It's a wrestling match to get it working, then when you do, it will spontaneously reboot the machine mid-scan. I am using the latest driver, downloaded from Visioneer.

To be fair, maybe I have defective hardware and this isn't a wide-scale design problem. It sure is disappointing, however, because when it works, it's a dream. With this unit, we're one step closer to the vaunted "paperless office."