Customer Reviews:
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 Great Product April 29, 2008
G. Ogden
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a great product for home use as well as business travel.
1 - Set up was very easy
2 - Operation is very straightforward
3 - Scan speed is great
4 - Scanner itself has a small footprint, takes up very little space
5 - Occasionally, documents of differing sizes that are scanned together do cause a jam - but it is very easily fixed
6 - It's amazing how many uses you'll find for this - documents that you need to archive, receipts, tax information, etc.
7 - No purchase regrets
Great Scanner! May 23, 2008
arcticwater (New York, NY United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've got to say, so far I love it! I was looking for something that would fit on my desk and not too big, and I think this has really hit the mark! I use it to scan in expenses, school papers, clippings, etc. The duplexing feature is nice, but I haven't needed to use it very often.
CardIris is a nice bonus, but seems like it's not really designed for 10.5.
Also, and this is a minor gripe, you have to put your originals face-down and head-first, which isn't terribly user-friendly.
Overall, highly recommended!
Amazing Product! July 16, 2008
Mr. Robert C. Williams
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This scanner is, perhaps, the single most amazing peripheral I have ever used in my 25+ years of computing. Simply put, it does EXACTLY what it claims to do: Duplex scan darn near any document you can feed through its scanning mechanism (Only limitation is it cannot scan thick or bound items - so if that is your need, you will have to revert to a flatbed scanner).
However, for document scanning, this scanner coupled with DevonThink Pro Office is a 5 star paperless office solution. If it is a piece of flat paper (or similar substance - I have successfully scanned plastic & thin metal as well!) it scans into your mac and DevonThink takes care of the OCR and document filing inside DevonThink's outstanding (again 5 Star) document archive/management software.
If you are truly wishing to move to the *practical* era of a "paperless office" This scanner and DevonThink are your complete solution.
What is really amazing? you can kick this puppy into "Hi Rez" mode (600DPI) and scan in photos that you can manipulate in photoshop and print on a 6 color inkjet printer at 8x10" print size with photorealistic results. NO this is not a dedicated 4800DPI professional scanner! But GEEZE! You are scanning photos on the road and on the fly :-)
This dinky thing is not much bigger than a large paperback book and:
* comes with a free (by mail) carrying case,
* CAN power itself off your MacBook/Pro's USB port
* (scans using USB power are @ 20% slower in my experience but who cares! you are scanning ANYWHERE and ANYTIME!)
* has a completely bulletproof recovery from scan jams
* (yes they DO happen and one button fixes it and the darn Fujitsu scanning software is smart enough to self-correct and ask you to rescan the jammed sheet--even in the middle of a 30+ page scan!)
* It will scan stacks of different sized paper and auto-recognize the size! (For instance, for my non-profit work I will scan a 8x10" event report sheet and immediately follow that with a 3x6" business-size check - I have successfully scanned a stack of 10 reports & checks in one session)
* Is 100% Mac-Like in operation: It *JUST WORKS*
* Unpack it, plug it in, open the lid, insert sheet, scan, DONE!
(Disclaimer: I do not work for either Fujitsu or DevonThink, although I have beta tested DevonThink in the past, I am a PAID licensee of DevonThink Pro Office - YES it is THAT good! :-)
Just get this scanner - you will NOT regret it!
 Very good, but a piecece of software is missing August 10, 2008
Clement Joubert (Paris, France)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you can, go for the 510M, its big brother. This one is smaller, and can be USB powered (if you don't mind the speed divided by 2) if you want a clean desktop. But the footprint of both scanners is nearly the same, speed boost on the 510M makes a huge difference in every day use.
The text recognition software bundled in the 510M is a must have : it allow full text indexing with spotlight on MacOS, so you can recover an scanned invoice in a matter of seconds. On this 300M you need to name your files correctly.
Except that, 300M is a very good piece of hardware, silent, fast, reliable.
Excellent Scanner June 11, 2008
Paul Rawson (California)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This scanner works great. Very easy to use and well engineered. Jams, although rare, are easily fixed with ingenious design. No regrets with this purchase.
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