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welcome to an unboxing that doesn't seem

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at first like it would have much application to the everyday consumer

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because it is A500 plus dollar scanner

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but it actually has some pretty compelling things about it that might

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make you want to add a fidgets you scan snap to your home so I actually already

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opened this up off camera but well I had

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someone else opened it up and was uh working on setting it up but I have not

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seen the contents yet so why don't we start by just getting it opened up and

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I'll talk about some of the features as we go and after the fact so first we

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have our AC adapter so that's pretty pretty run of the- Mill next we have

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some packing materials also pretty runof-the-mill

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and finally we have the scan snap

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itself which is not run-ofthe-mill and I will explain why it's actually really

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heavy better just put that down this is not a portable scanner although it does

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have a very small form factor so it will easily fit on your desk next we have oo

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a carrier sheet so I'll explain what the carrier sheet does in a moment as well

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but let's just finish up the unboxing side of things so this is a what is it 8

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1/2 by 14 I believe carrier sheet all

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right and then finally we have a couple more accessories so this guy right here

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this is a oh demo eval checklist so your retail unit won't come with one of those

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and finally we have a scans snap setup DVD ROM as well as a USB cable and a

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power cable to plug into the AC adapter so give me a couple seconds because I am

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going to use a cheat sheet for this I'm going to kind of hide it a little actually you know what let's just get

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started so this is the scans snap s1500

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so why don't we start with that carrier sheet I'm sorry that was 11 by 17 it can

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be okay give me a sec guys so let's do

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the overall physical layout of the scans snap S500 so you lift it up like this

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that's all pretty straightforward you pull it up like that you can load in

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whatever documents you see fit so just for the sake of uh for the sake of

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demonstration why don't we take our carrier sheet which is just a clear

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plastic film that closes over a damaged

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document it can also be used uh rather creatively I might add to scan pages

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that are up to 11 by 17 by folding them

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in half over the carrier sheet and the software itself will automatically

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Stitch it together so there you go that's how you load a page onto it you

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press scan in order to scan it now there's almost nothing in terms of

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buttons on the scans snap itself you can see at the front there's no buttons

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there's just the um output for the paper

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documents that you have scanned on the side there's pretty much nothing on the

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other side pretty much nothing on the bottom pretty much nothing and on the

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back oh okay hold on there's a couple things on the back so on the back we

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have the uh DC input as well as the USB

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input so there you have it that is the physical characteristics of the s1500

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now most of the magic is in the software and if you've ever bought a scanner and

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tried to use it in the past you'll know that the software can be a bit of a bear

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it'll make her break a scanner because it can have the best image quality in

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the world but if the software crashes on you every 30 seconds which I have

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experienced in the past then that's not going to do you any good um

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so let's go through the features I'm totally going to use my cheat sheet here and I'm very sorry guys but there's a

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lot of different points that I did want to cover so it scans both sides of the

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document that you run through it okay it can correct for things like upside down

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Pages if your document is accidentally running through a little bit crooked now

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it does have guides here so you can adjust it to different sizes of of paper

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but just in case it does run through a little bit crooked by accident it will

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actually uh automatically correct that it'll automatically remove blank pages

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it'll autoc crop according to the document type so A4 checks business

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cards and this is all stuff you can control in the software you can

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actually scan to text and you can make

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it a searchable PDF so if you were to take a text document um Excel sheets

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actually don't work all that well but if you were to take a uh a more text Heavy

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document and scan it through here it'll automatically convert all of that text

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to a searchable PDF which is pretty cool because it means that if if you're ever

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trying to find uh a check from your work

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for example as long as you scan all your stubs through here all you have to do is

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search for it and you can bring up all of the checks in one go so here we go

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one click can okay give me a sec guys

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now along the lines of the uh the scannable searchable text if you take

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your document and you actually highlight certain text so let's say you

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highlighted uh anything to do with uh with a stove RMA that you were dealing

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with for the longest time so you just highlight stove on any document that you

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scan through it and you can actually set it to automatically create metadata so

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you can create tags for that document based on anything that you highlighted

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which makes it very easy to index things according to and organize according to

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what it was actually for you can also do highlighter cropping so if you uh were

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to cut out something with a highlighter and you set it in the software it'll

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automatically crop that document according to the section you highlighted which is pretty neat as well works fine

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on photos although it is by design a

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document scanner it has the resolution it has the color accuracy to do photos

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no problem and all of that auto orientation stuff uh and all those

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correction type things will work on photos as well it scans directly into

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ioto but the included Fujitsu software is PC oriented so it is more of a PC

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Product than a Mac product so stay away from the dislike button you guys it has

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replacement parts for the feeders so oh

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hey there you go hey there's something I missed I knew it would have somewhere

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for the out documents there we go so now we can see it works a little bit better

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okay so you actually okay but have you guys

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ever had a gravity fed printer that

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starts to take up two pages at a time or stops taking up Pages at all you've

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probably encountered this in the past Fujitsu actually allows you to replace

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the rubber pieces replace the feeders according to when they need to be

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replaced you don't actually have to buy a new scanner so they do inventory those

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parts you can get them you don't have to just throw it away like you do with most

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printers so there you go now that makes a lot more sense it actually folds up

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really compact doesn't it that's cool let's do it one more

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time there we go okay finally business

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cards it'll do business cards as long as they're not on a black background which

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most of them aren't it'll do business cards in a wide variety of different

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languages and it'll organize them for you it'll scan all the text so all you

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have to do in terms of your Rolodex is

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have a scan snap that you run all your business cards through and then just search by name or by company name

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whatever the case may be on your computer and it'll take care of all that for you as well so this is my unboxing

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of the Fujitsu scans snap I actually have a tech tips episode coming up on

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this once I've spent some more time with the unit because you can see this is my

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very first run at it right now and thank

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