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Fujitsu ScanSnap: One of the Best Hardware Investments I’ve Ever Made

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Seconded. Brilliant piece of hardware.

It also enables an interesting shift in cognitive load: instead of deciding what to keep/shred and filing, scan everything and make it searchable.

I'd suggest that some thought go into exactly what to scan. Just because you can scan everything doesn't mean you need to or should.

Signed,

Reformed Digital Hoarder

(P.S. Just completed a e-documentation retention project. Deleted mass quantities of information that served no purpose or was held waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond legal retention requirements..)

It's the Hadoop of paperwork?

I went down. this journey going paperless for my personal documents and office too.

Wanted to purchase the snapscan but found it too expensive. Went with HP officejet 8620 instead. Never looked back!

Scans single or double-sided straight to my email or a folder on my Mac.

For receipts, I use Scanbot on my phone or the printer's glass tray.

Saves so much time, space, and organizes your documents so much better!

A document feeder is a definite must and hide time saver!

Not to be That Guy, but: does it work with Linux?

My ScanSnap S1500 works like a treat in Linux. I wrote my own scripts to scan, straighten, compress and put the documents into a databases. I should probably upload the scripts somewhere. They work better than anything else I found.

I don't own one, but I looked into buying one, several years ago. At that time, the less expensive, base version didn't have TWAIN support. There was a more expensive model that did.

Which leads to my question to the audience, here: What are the currently recommended models of SnapScan, and why?

As another poster mentioned, Canon makes similar scanners that support TWAIN priced in the ballpark of the Scansnaps. I bought a ScanSnap a few years ago and had to immediately return it as I needed TWAIN. The Canon Scantini has held up well.

My S1300 does but the results aren't as clean as with the Windows software.

3 (?) years ago, I bought a Canon Scantini P150 for similar reasons. While it was very expensive (IMO), it has been been well worth it for the same reasons as the ScanSnap: duplex scanning, light weight, built-in straightening, and OCR. Still use it almost daily.

I use a Brother multifunction laser printer that comes with a sheet feeder and the ability to scan both sides. It will also send the resulting JPG/PDF/TIFF directly to a bunch of different cloud file storage providers. It's really handy.

We have loads of ScanSnap N1800s all over the office. We are a FinTech company we always get loads of financial docs from clients so we scan and archive them securely and shred the originals.

They are expensive, but they just work.

I love this if only because of the built in straightening and OCR! It makes everything else sub-par.

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