Document Scanner (Again)

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Like many of you I used to enjoy working with the Fujitsu scanners. Until Fujitsu’s idiot changes over the past few years:

  • killing support for older scanners
  • ScanSnap home’s teribble usability
  • The insane licensing policy: one computer per scanner (except the ix500)

I need a scanner for my Mom in another state, where all she needs to do is insert the document(s) and click scan. All I need the Mac to do, is automatically save the scan as OCR’d PDF. Ideally with almost no interaction (clicking OK on a dialog box is fine.)

I’d have the scans saved to a DropBox folder on her Mac, that I’ll access on my Mac, rename and file.

At this point I’m leaning toward the Epson ES-500W. Are their downsides to this one, and others you’d recommend. I place high priority on Mac support, where the company hasn’t just hired a contractor for two months to produce the drivers.

Thanks in advance,

  • Miles
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iPhone. There’s like a built in scanner, which is the one I use. There’s also Office Lens for OneDrive and ScanPro if you want a third party app.

Not the best if you have a ton of things to scan, but it’s pretty convenient.

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I used to enjoy working with the Fujitsu scanners. Until Fujitsu’s idiot changes over the past few years:
killing support for older scanners

In a surprising move, Fujitsu has released a new 64bit version of ScanSnap Manager (now at version 7), which restored compatibility with older, now unsupported models (such as the S1500, and from the comments, even the S300M seems to work, which is not even mentioned by Fujitsu).

I can confirm that this works on Catalina without enforcing per-device licensing.

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Yes and if you change the settings you can manage and store the files like we used to :nerd_face: