welcome to an unboxing that doesn't seem
at first like it would have much application to the everyday consumer
because it is A500 plus dollar scanner
but it actually has some pretty compelling things about it that might
make you want to add a fidgets you scan snap to your home so I actually already
opened this up off camera but well I had
someone else opened it up and was uh working on setting it up but I have not
seen the contents yet so why don't we start by just getting it opened up and
I'll talk about some of the features as we go and after the fact so first we
have our AC adapter so that's pretty pretty run of the- Mill next we have
some packing materials also pretty runof-the-mill
and finally we have the scan snap
itself which is not run-ofthe-mill and I will explain why it's actually really
heavy better just put that down this is not a portable scanner although it does
have a very small form factor so it will easily fit on your desk next we have oo
a carrier sheet so I'll explain what the carrier sheet does in a moment as well
but let's just finish up the unboxing side of things so this is a what is it 8
1/2 by 14 I believe carrier sheet all
right and then finally we have a couple more accessories so this guy right here
this is a oh demo eval checklist so your retail unit won't come with one of those
and finally we have a scans snap setup DVD ROM as well as a USB cable and a
power cable to plug into the AC adapter so give me a couple seconds because I am
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
started so this is the scans snap s1500
so why don't we start with that carrier sheet I'm sorry that was 11 by 17 it can
be okay give me a sec guys so let's do
the overall physical layout of the scans snap S500 so you lift it up like this
that's all pretty straightforward you pull it up like that you can load in
whatever documents you see fit so just for the sake of uh for the sake of
demonstration why don't we take our carrier sheet which is just a clear
plastic film that closes over a damaged
document it can also be used uh rather creatively I might add to scan pages
that are up to 11 by 17 by folding them
in half over the carrier sheet and the software itself will automatically
Stitch it together so there you go that's how you load a page onto it you
press scan in order to scan it now there's almost nothing in terms of
buttons on the scans snap itself you can see at the front there's no buttons
there's just the um output for the paper
documents that you have scanned on the side there's pretty much nothing on the
other side pretty much nothing on the bottom pretty much nothing and on the
back oh okay hold on there's a couple things on the back so on the back we
have the uh DC input as well as the USB
input so there you have it that is the physical characteristics of the s1500
now most of the magic is in the software and if you've ever bought a scanner and
tried to use it in the past you'll know that the software can be a bit of a bear
it'll make her break a scanner because it can have the best image quality in
the world but if the software crashes on you every 30 seconds which I have
experienced in the past then that's not going to do you any good um
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
lot of different points that I did want to cover so it scans both sides of the
document that you run through it okay it can correct for things like upside down
Pages if your document is accidentally running through a little bit crooked now
it does have guides here so you can adjust it to different sizes of of paper
but just in case it does run through a little bit crooked by accident it will
actually uh automatically correct that it'll automatically remove blank pages
it'll autoc crop according to the document type so A4 checks business
cards and this is all stuff you can control in the software you can
actually scan to text and you can make
it a searchable PDF so if you were to take a text document um Excel sheets
actually don't work all that well but if you were to take a uh a more text Heavy
document and scan it through here it'll automatically convert all of that text
to a searchable PDF which is pretty cool because it means that if if you're ever
trying to find uh a check from your work
for example as long as you scan all your stubs through here all you have to do is
search for it and you can bring up all of the checks in one go so here we go
one click can okay give me a sec guys
now along the lines of the uh the scannable searchable text if you take
your document and you actually highlight certain text so let's say you
highlighted uh anything to do with uh with a stove RMA that you were dealing
with for the longest time so you just highlight stove on any document that you
scan through it and you can actually set it to automatically create metadata so
you can create tags for that document based on anything that you highlighted
which makes it very easy to index things according to and organize according to
what it was actually for you can also do highlighter cropping so if you uh were
to cut out something with a highlighter and you set it in the software it'll
automatically crop that document according to the section you highlighted which is pretty neat as well works fine
on photos although it is by design a
document scanner it has the resolution it has the color accuracy to do photos
no problem and all of that auto orientation stuff uh and all those
correction type things will work on photos as well it scans directly into
ioto but the included Fujitsu software is PC oriented so it is more of a PC
Product than a Mac product so stay away from the dislike button you guys it has
replacement parts for the feeders so oh
hey there you go hey there's something I missed I knew it would have somewhere
for the out documents there we go so now we can see it works a little bit better
okay so you actually okay but have you guys
ever had a gravity fed printer that
starts to take up two pages at a time or stops taking up Pages at all you've
probably encountered this in the past Fujitsu actually allows you to replace
the rubber pieces replace the feeders according to when they need to be
replaced you don't actually have to buy a new scanner so they do inventory those
parts you can get them you don't have to just throw it away like you do with most
printers so there you go now that makes a lot more sense it actually folds up
really compact doesn't it that's cool let's do it one more
time there we go okay finally business
cards it'll do business cards as long as they're not on a black background which
most of them aren't it'll do business cards in a wide variety of different
languages and it'll organize them for you it'll scan all the text so all you
have to do in terms of your Rolodex is
have a scan snap that you run all your business cards through and then just search by name or by company name
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
of the Fujitsu scans snap I actually have a tech tips episode coming up on
this once I've spent some more time with the unit because you can see this is my
very first run at it right now and thank
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