this video will blow your mind drop your
jaw and move your
bowels okay so maybe I oversold it a little bit this video is of the Fujitsu
scans snap 500 and it actually exists
not because I think this is the most exciting product in the world but rather
because we needed one for the office it's just a handy thing we use and you
lot told me I'm supposed to make videos about that kind of stuff so here we go
with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts we actually have
a network scanner already one that was a lot cheaper but our business is growing
and our needs are changing so between walking back and forth only being able
to scan directly to two PCS maximum it's lack of double-sided scanning and it's
an ability to handle oddside paper without resorting to the flatbed we
wanted something faster and more flexible so in the Box for the 500 we
find a usb3 cable Fujitsu software Adobe
Acrobat 11 standard a carrier sheet more on that later and the scanner itself
resplendant in an improved black finish that makes it not look straight out of
the 90s like the S500 that I overviewed last time around on ncx Tech tips
software setup is also improved from last time it's much faster to install
but one big issue that remains is that if you don't want to use the included CD
you have to jump through a bunch of Hoops to download the handy management
utilities I really wish Fujitsu would come up with a different way of doing
this physically Fujitsu is going for a
so easy it only requires a one button approach here so you unfold it from its
compact storage mode and you'll find well just one button on the front
labeled scan on the back it's got a Kensington lock a power jack a usb3 port
a Wi-Fi toggle switch and a WPS button for easily adding it your network
wirelessly to scan to multiple PCS or
smartphones running iOS or Android but that's about it so the make or break
feature of this scanner is going to be how well the software works so let's
move on it took me a while to get used to this one button concept and the
different ways that you can use it so first up you can have the software
create a scans snap folder on your computer that temporarily hold stuff so
you can email it out or archive it from there and then that folder will just
automat magically clean everything up after a set number of days that's good
for certain types of work like administrative work but the way that I
like to use it better is to have it look for whatever device or window is active
then Target that with the scaned file so if card minder their business card
manager is up on my screen it'll it'll go to there if organizer their scan
document organizer is up it goes to there and if nothing's up this one's
great you press scan it scans to the computer then prompts you with a whole
bunch of different options for what it can do with it some of them are useful like Dropbox and Google doc scanning
While others are unfortunately less useful with the email option being down
to Outlook expressed by default in Windows 7 and up and thirdparty add-ons
to change to Gmail the one I tried being aixa being imperfect at best but the
good news is you can configure whichever ones you want to appear and leave the
others speaking of configuration options all the usual ones are there so DPI
settings go from normal to better to best to excellent
I mean really uh you can pick color or black and white single or double-sided
you can automatically remove blank pages prompt for more pages when you're done
scanning or not and then we start to get into some of the more exotic stuff it
can use ultrasonic scanning to detect an accidental double page in the Auto
Theater it can autor rotate your finished documents to keep everything
easy to read once it's scanned and there's even an option to convert
everything to searchable PDFs with the included acrobat software so then you
can use the organizer to search for any relev scan documents very easily in
theory most of these features work really well but in practice they're not
perfect I mean on A4 paper auto rotate
I'd say is 95 plus% accurate but with things like business cards and receipts
that's probably closer to 75% the text
detection for business cards and searchable PDFs is also a little bit hit
or miss with documents I found that searching for stuff off the top of my
head usually yielded the thing that I was looking for but the mode that lets
you highlight text and then apply those keywords to documents didn't work that
well for me and business cards were all over the place whenever they're oriented
Wrong by the software text detection it doesn't actually pick up any of the
pertinent information and organize it correctly at all and even when they are
oriented correctly it missed a lot of stuff I mean to be fair the speed and
image quality are good and business cards don't follow very standard
formatting but I still don't think that's an excuse for not tracking down
basic stuff like the phone number one high point here though is that the card
minder application once you've entered all of the missing data and cleaned
things up a little bit is really great you can just press a quick hotkey and
bring up business cards extremely quickly it's a lot better than having
Stacks like this just lying around like I have in the past so since we're on the
subject of good stuff the document feeder is really great I didn't need the
included carrier sheet which flattens out and protects fragile documents at
all it does a great job with slightly ripped or even crinkled paper and on the
other end of the spectrum I accidentally put in my Star Citizen card a plastic
card in it when I was scanning business cards and if I hadn't been constantly
refilling the hopper to do more business cards in one batch without stopping it
probably wouldn't have even gotten stuck in the output try and jammed but even
then the scan ended up looking fine I was able to pull it out and I was able
to keep going just like that the one thing I was able to deed it with fairly
often was very very small receipts like
taxi receipts or weird shaped business
cards other than that I was really impressed by the document feeder and the
impressed keeps coming last time around the mobile app experience was terrible I
couldn't even get it working this time it pretty much couldn't have been better
remember that bit about just scanning at
whatever is open when you press the button after a short simple Setup Wizard
you can get docs on your phone in two ways you can load a document then Press
scan in the app on your phone and boity Presto it's on your pH phone or you can
use the quick menu to scan it to the PC like normal then press mobile when the
menu pops up it'll wait for you to launch the app on your phone then push
it to you over Wi-Fi in a couple of seconds without you even interacting with the app on your phone then if you
want to go back to PC scanning mode when you're done you just close or even
minimize the app on your phone and everything is back to normal within about a second very cool it completely
changes the way we scan things around our office because usually we just need
something temporarily to email an NDA to someone or something like that and now
anyone with the password can scan something directly to their phone by
just walking over to the scanner pressing scan on their phone and boom
done five stars right there but of course all of this comes at a cost the
is500 is super expensive especially given that scanners have been commodity
items for like 10 years that makes it a really tough sell for the average user
but with features like quick paper jam removal
user replaceable parts for a longer Lifetime and a pretty amazing community
building new mods and features all the time for a business user even a smallish
one it's basically a no-brainer I mean check out this little hack to use the
highlighting keyword feature to automatically censor names on a legal
document how much manual Crossing out would that save pretty cool anyway guys
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