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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:01 AM To: [email protected] 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. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. 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