RE: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
I have used an Optacon for probably 36 years and I have to say, unless someone prints very well, it is next to impossible for me to read handwritten notes. I had one deskmate in my office in the late 1970s who could print drug names into a book so that although not like the printed text I could manage to read them but, handwriting is best done with the eyes, in my case by asking someone to assist. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 7:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by does it say picture. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt= 8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the Open In dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it. beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says iX500 is ready to scan which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first. once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu
RE: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
True, but, for about 99% of handwritten stuff I still ask for assistance,. It is such a quirky thing. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Vece Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 7:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app I was able to read hand writing when I used my Optacon. That's only because I read the samee hand writing every day. Sent from my iPad On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by does it say picture. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt= 8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the Open In dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it. beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says iX500 is ready to scan which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first. once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran
Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
Hi Kirsten, The Fujitsu Scansnap is designed to do high volume sheet scanning, so unless you cut your books apart and fed through the pages, this wouldn't work for you. Scansnaps can do doublesided scanning of pages. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 22 Jul 2013, at 04:18, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: Sorry if this seems like a really stupid question, but will this scanner only scan individual sheets? Does it not do books? Kirsten Sent from my iPhone On 21 Jul 2013, at 15:30, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by “does it say picture”. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt=8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says “Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device”. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the “Open In” dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it… beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says “iX500 is ready to scan” which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first… once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger
Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
Sorry if this seems like a really stupid question, but will this scanner only scan individual sheets? Does it not do books? Kirsten Sent from my iPhone On 21 Jul 2013, at 15:30, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by “does it say picture”. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt=8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says “Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device”. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the “Open In” dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it… beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says “iX500 is ready to scan” which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first… once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran wrap in its cardboard box and which I think costs $200, but it’s USB only. If they came out with a new model which maybe could use Bluetooth to connect to the phone and hence the Scansnap app, this would be the ultimate portable scanning solution except of course
Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
Sieghard, I have the Fujitsu Scan Snap 1300i model, which is only a 10 sheet capable scanner, which works wonderfully. The only caveat I have is with the inaccessibility of browsing through the menus, but since everything is already set there is not real need to make any changes. I never considered using Prizmo to OCR my scanned documents, which is something I will have to try on the iPhone 5. While the Scan Snap line is not for everyone it sure is a great way to get an excellent scanner with a small footprint, and bundled is software that is easy to use, if for only serving as the interface, which requires Little use from the user. The Mac Power Users podcast is where I learned of this scanner line, and the workflows outlined in an episode devoted to paperless workflows is something to listen to. Cheers. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt=8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the Open In dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it. beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says iX500 is ready to scan which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first. once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran wrap in its cardboard box and which I think costs $200, but it's USB only. If they came out with a new model which maybe could use Bluetooth to connect to the phone and hence the Scansnap app, this would be the ultimate portable scanning solution except of course if it is a book which you can't feed through the sheet feeder without cutting the binding. At $500 this may not appeal to many, but some on this list might have a need for a desktop scanner. Given the fact that this scanner can send scanned images straight to an iPhone (and Android device for that matter) and that the app is accessible and allows for OCR via the Open In menu and Prizmo, the iX500 is a fantastic solution and it performs many functions that are useful for a blind user automatically such as removing blank pages, automatic colour detection, automatic detection of double sided documents etc. It seems all one really needs to do is put the page(s) in and press Scan. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group.
RE: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
This sounds very tempting. I actually have it in my cart and may own it by the end of the day. I don't always have good luck with open book, and this sounds like a much better scanning solution. Thanks for the great review. Lois From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt= 8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the Open In dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it. beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says iX500 is ready to scan which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first. once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran wrap in its cardboard box and which I think costs $200, but it's USB only. If they came out with a new model which maybe could use Bluetooth to connect to the phone and hence the Scansnap app, this would be the ultimate portable scanning solution except of course if it is a book which you can't feed through the sheet feeder without cutting the binding. At $500 this may not appeal to many, but some on this list might have a need for a desktop scanner. Given the fact that this scanner can send scanned images straight to an iPhone (and Android device for that matter) and that the app is accessible and allows for OCR via the Open In menu and Prizmo, the iX500 is a fantastic solution and it performs many functions that are useful for a blind user automatically such as removing blank pages, automatic colour detection, automatic detection of double sided documents etc. It seems all one really needs to do is put the page(s) in and press Scan. Regards, Sieghard -- You received
RE: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by does it say picture. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt= 8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the Open In dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it. beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says iX500 is ready to scan which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first. once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran wrap in its cardboard box and which I think costs $200, but it's USB only. If they came out with a new model which maybe could use Bluetooth to connect to the phone and hence the Scansnap app, this would be the ultimate portable scanning solution except of course if it is a book which you can't feed through the sheet feeder without cutting the binding. At $500 this may not appeal to many, but some on this list might have a need for a desktop scanner. Given the fact that this scanner can send scanned images straight to an iPhone (and Android device
Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app
I was able to read hand writing when I used my Optacon. That's only because I read the samee hand writing every day. Sent from my iPad On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Betty, I have never tried to use OCR on handwritten letters or notes. You may get some results if somebody had printed the note very carefully, but I think at this point most OCR programs do not handle handwriting well at all and you will most likely get jibberish. I am not sure what you mean by “does it say picture”. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty Emmons Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app how does it deal with hand written print on pages? also does it say picture? Betty Emmons - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:00 AM Subject: Review of Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 Sheetscanner and Scansnap app Hello List, I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap iX500 scanner for my business and wanted to briefly mention/review it since it is capable of scanning directly to an iOS device wirelessly via the Scansnap app which is available for free in the app store, see link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/scansnap-connect-application/id464728181?mt=8 This is not a solution for everybody since the iX500 is $500, it still is on sale right now at www.MemoryExpress.com in Canada for $439.95. The iX500 is a Sheetscanner (no flatbed) with a very small footprint, it can scan double sided pages in one pass at a rate of 25 pages per minute and has an impressive feature set. Here is a link to the Scansnap iX500: http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnap11/iX500.html I installed the scanner yesterday and it was very straight forward. The initial setup has to be done on the computer and I believe this scanner would not work with something like Openbook directly since it uses its own driver instead of a standard TWAIN driver. One could of course scan the image and then import and recognize the image in Openbook. After I connected it to my WiFi I opened the app on my iPhone 4S and the scanner was immediately recognized. As soon as I opened the app, Jaws now says “Connection of iX500 has been switched to the mobile device”. If I put a page or for that matter up to 50 pages into the paper infeed tray and then tap the scan button in the app which, by the way appears to be fully accessible, the scanner starts feeding pages through at a rate of just over 2 seconds a page. The scanned file then appears in the file list of the app and it has a default name that is the current date and time. When I double tapped on the file the “Open In” dialogue popped up and I was able to open the scan in Prizmo and recognize it… beautiful. As soon as I exit the app Jaws says “iX500 is ready to scan” which means it has disconnected from the app and is once again ready to scan to the PC. The primary use of that scanner at my business is to scan all paperwork, invoices, statements and so on since I only keep digital copies and no paper copies. Typically my staff does this, but on the PC it is also very simple, I can just put a page or pages in the tray, press the scan button on the scanner and the pages are scanned. At the end a screen pops up and I can select to Save to a Folder, send the scan to email, send it to the printer (for photocopying) or I can directly to applications like Word, Excel etc. The Save to Folder function is simple, it shows a Save As dialogue with the default file name (date and time) which can be edited, then there is a Browse button where I can select the folder where I want to save the scan. Once I press Save that window closes and I can start the next scan from the scanner. You can even feed embossed cards like credit cards through the feeder and it will take paper as small as a business card and as wide as 8.5. For really small or flimsy receipts the scanner comes with a carrier sheet. It consists of 2 transparent sheets of thin plastic which are glued together only at the short top edge. You put the receipt in between and then feed the carrier sheet through with the laminated edge going in first… once again brilliant and there is no need to use a glue stick and glue a small piece of paper onto a bigger piece so you can feed it through the scanner. Fujitsu even makes a portable Scansnap which is not much bigger than a large role of Saran wrap in its cardboard box and which I think costs $200, but it’s USB only. If they came out with a new model which maybe could use Bluetooth to connect to the phone and hence the Scansnap app, this would be the ultimate portable scanning solution except of course if it is a book
