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After fully digitizing my office, I was tired of waiting and waiting for my previous scanner (an all-in-one) to do its job. I finally bought this one after a year of falling asleep while waiting for things to scan. This scanner does not disappoint. I am using a Mac, and I’m using the installed software. To have it completely scan, index, and save over 1500 pages in less than an hour about made me cry I was so happy. I finished everything up so fast I didn’t know what to do with myself after that! It didn’t eat any pages (of really soft paper, not regular paper), it didn’t skip any pages, and the auto-detect for black-and-white versus color and blank-pages is ridiculously helpful. I wish I’d bought this scanner sooner and didn’t suffer through a year of agonizingly slow scanning. It even had no problem sucking in very hard paper (like a cover) and then right back to soft paper of a different size! It cropped everything nice and neatly, too. Love this scanner!

UPDATE: NEW COMMENT: THERE *IS* a “catch all that paper tray” on the front. Another reviewer pointed it out to me and I carefully examined the front panel (the one that flips down) and it’s the flush with the tray itself so I never would have noticed it. Problem solved! I took a picture of it…gee, I think I should dust that off…. 😉

ORIGINAL COMMENT SAID “The only thing I’d say that needs improvement is the “out” tray. It needs another flip-up lip to catch the paper as it comes out, otherwise it starts to pop off and dump on the desk. I solved that by resting my hand in front of the tray when all the paper came out. The paper bumps up against my fingers and then re-stacks itself. I tried a coffee mug and a box of Kleenex to block it from falling off, but that makes it slide up so it’s just as bad.”

We have 7 of these scanners, with one on all of each of the desks for my Team in my law practice, and one at my home office. They cut down on paper considerably, as we scan documents brought in by clients and hand them back to the clients. I use it at home for both two rental businesses and a construction company we run out of the house. All of the businesses formerly generated a mountain of paperwork to organize and file. These scanners save on filing time, which saves money and tedium for my employees, and they save money on file cabinets and floor space. These scanners are very fast and easy to setup and use. You can scan a document faster than you could shred it. The documents scan to pdf and are then easily stored in electronic files (backed up in a dual core hard drive onsite and in cloud storage offsite). They auto scan in duplex and color. The first ones were purchased in November 2013, and are still going strong 3 years later. The two later ones were purchased in January, 2016, and this one in October, 2016.

Update, Sept, 2017. One purchased in November, 2013, just died. Buying another one. I think that was a good run time for the money, ease of use and convenience.

I cannot say enough great things about this scanner, so i will jump into the finer points:

1. It’s a workhorse. We’ve been digitizing our entire paper archive of about 500 sheet PER DAY and this scanner has kept up.

2. It’s a thoughtful device. When you scan as much as we do, little annoyances become a big deal. Whoever designed this thing thought through all those little annoyances and made most of them go away. I like how the unit recovers from jams and understands which pages to keep and which pages to toss. I like how the one-touch scan button understands when I want to begin a scan and resume a scan. That means I don’t have to click over the PC software in order to recover. The unit really does auto-straighten, auto-contrast, auto-2-side, auto-1-side, auto-orientation. It’s hard to screw up a scan. The scanning engine even knows how to look for ink/toner bleed through from one side of a page to the other and contrast it out. Wow!

3. Cleaning and care is pretty easy. After 500 pages, there’s going to be a little debris in the scanner. The eject button and fold out top is designed well enough that it’s easy to gently blow out particles and carefully clean the top and bottom scan heads. No special tools required. It’s hard to go wrong here.

4. Scanning to searchable PDF works incredibly well. I’m very impressed. The OCR module does a pretty admirable job of scanning text and making it searchable in a PDF. This is the godsend feature we need. Pro tip: if you’re on Windows and you want to use Windows Search to look for text in PDF you need to go download Adobe’s PDF iFilter app and install it on every computer that needs to search the PDFs, not just the server or workstation where the PDFs reside. Installing the iFilter *should* turn on Windows Search settings to search the entire PDF and not just the file properties.

There are a couple of annoyances, however:

4. Software installation is clumsy and requires a bunch of updates. Whoever designed the installer/updater wasn’t nearly as thoughtful as whoever designed the hardware. It takes a good 30 minutes of downloading and installing and updating to get the software online. Really, there’s no excuse for it. Just package the updates into the latest installer and make it easy for those of us who are purchasing later rather than earlier.

5. The actual app software is also clumsy. The ONE THING this scanner needs to do right is to scan to searchable PDF. In order to do this, I had to turn off all the “quick button” features and change the app to scan to application: save to a folder. I pick the folder and now I don’t deal with the software at all. I just put documents in the scanner, press the blue button and walk away.

6. Wi-fi setup is clunky and difficult thanks to the bad installer. Wi-fi should be one of the awesome features of this unit, but it’s painful to setup because of the stupid software. Also, I had trouble keeping this unit connected to my UniFi mesh wi-fi network. Occasionally the UniFi changes the channel of a particular SSID and this throws off the scanner’s wi-fi. I then have to go in to the software and setup wi-fi again. Repeat every time I make config changes to or restart the UniFi access points. Kind of a bummer.

All in all, this crazy little box has saved us so much time and frustration. The best part? I demo’d it before some scanning/archiving company tried to bid us $10,000 to do our scanning work for us and their demo system did far worse than this little scanner. They walked away in utter shame. I love doing that to crummy companies 🙂

Unreal speed and accuracy. I have used at least 5 different scanners trying to find one that would handle years of old paperwork. I have thousands of tiny fuel receipts on crumpled carbon paper that no scanner would scan without jamming. This thing scans them so fast and hasn’t missed a single one. It had literally saved me over 24 hours of work. Never thought a scanner would add days to my life but this one has. Can’t recommend enough. And no I was not asked to leave a review. I rely on other reviews when making purchases and take writing mine seriously. Thanks for the awesome product worth every penny.

This scanner is amazing! It’s super fast and it’s made my life easier by improving my productivity both at our office and at home. I used to enter data from reports into Access which was time consuming and a job I hated. Now, I scan the type written information and put it into Evernote where it’s searchable by any number or word. I want to scan everything now!