I first noticed problems with ScanSnap software with macOS HighSierra-the order of pages in a multipage document or pages in a document that required duplex scanning were often out of order after scanning. One caution, though, with my test: I am still operating in Mojave 10.14, not Catalina 10.15. (I have been fiddling with Nuance and have found that it is buggy and crashes quite a bit, especially during OCR.)įourth, like one of the other readers, I can confirm that the ScanSnap ix1500 with the new ScanSnap Home software works without internet connection through the bundled USB-3 cable and without putting documents into the Fujitsu cloud service. Today, the scanner comes with Nuance Power PDF. Back then, the scanner was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Pro 9. Third, the 2019 bundled software is less impressive than Fujitsu’s offerings in 2012. The wireless functionality did not seem particularly important in 2012, but such functionality is now almost required. The newer model supports connecting with the scanning software on my iMac over Wifi. Second, one fairly important function available in the newer hardware (which was not available in the older model from 7 years ago) is Wifi support. Like others, I too felt bitter replacing a fully functional piece of hardware because of the manufacturer’s decision not to update the scanning software to 64-bit for Catalina.įour observations, all about the ScanSnap (not VueScan):įirst, the article made me feel better about the new ScanSnap purchase since ease of use in the software is key to my scanning needs. I have been a very satisfied user of the ScanSnap s1500, which was purchased in 2012. Selfishly, the first thought I had when I saw the headline referencing ScanSnap Replacement was, “Oh no! I just got suckered into buying a new Fujitsu ScanSnap ix1500 and I should have just waited for TidBits to tell me what to do.” Thanks to Dave Kitabjian for the article. In my case, at least, it was the droid I was looking for. I feel rescued by VueScan again, and will be buying more licenses for other machines at my office. I originally licensed VueScan because I owned an expensive flatbed scanner whose manufacturer abandoned the Mac. I have had far fewer failed scans that I did with the ScanSnap software, though that might be due to no longer using WiFi, which was the source of a lot of grief with the ScanSnap software. I have not seen the cropping problems that Dave described, which would have been a deal killer for me. Once I got the settings dialed in (not trivial, but it only took two or three days) everything has worked great. On my S510M alone (possibly my lowest volume but also my oldest device) I have scanned over 25,000 pages. I scan a diverse array of documents (though few photographs those all start and stay digital) of various sizes and shapes. My environment is high-volume, time constrained, and overall demanding in ways that home users would never experience. It did take some fiddling to get the options the way I want, but VueScan has performed quite well. My workflow is pretty simple: the overwhelming majority of scans are duplex, save as. A couple of months ago, when Fujitsu notified me that my S510M was end-of-life, I dug out my old copy of VueScan and was pleasantly surprised to find that (1) my “professional” license was still valid and (2) the features of my ScanSnaps that I really wanted seemed to be supported (with the exception of wireless scanning over WiFi, which I didn’t expect to work). I have had a license for VueScan since the 90’s, though when I got my first ScanSnap (S510M) in 2008, I switched to using its included software. (If you think there’s a functional difference between “sent to the cloud” and “published,” then you haven’t been paying attention.) So if the need for an always-on connection implies that they’re sending scan data to the cloud (“all your scan are belong to us”), then ScanSnap is no longer a viable solution if you scan anything like bank statements or other financial instruments, identification documents, personal correspondence, photographs of family and friends, medical documents… Usability and availability is one issue, but in both my work as a physician and as an IT security consultant, I regularly scan documents that absolutely must not be published. This is concerning on a number of levels. Something not mentioned in the article is that Fujitsu states that their new (64-bit) scanning software will absolutely require an always-on internet connection in order to do any scanning.
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