Side by Side Comparison of: VUPOINT vs Fujitsu

Incredible item! Some things you need to be saving for posterity are too big for your printer/flatbed scanner and this wand fills the gap. From artwork, pictures, books, you can scan and save it all. Separately buy a micro SD (which can be used with other things like cameras, computers, etc.) which spreads the cost, since micro SDs usually come with a standard size adapter. When I first tried to use the Wand I was not getting good results: Saw only a small slice of my document. I called the really great customer service and found out I was scanning TOO SLOWLY!. Took about 1 minute to explain and figure out. Thanks, VuPoint. Also you get the really valuable Paper Port software for scanning, searching and organizing documents. I used to work with this type of software before I retired, and I really missed it, but not now. Also included is a USB cable for connection to a computer, a cleaning cloth, batteries, and a storage bag for the Wand. I am impressed, so much so that I am buying two others for Christmas gifts. And, no, I am not an employee of this company LOL. It is just a very good product that meets my needs.

When I got my first VuPoint portable scanner wand as a gift, I wasn't sure what to do with it. It turned out to be excellent for saving documents at work, where I don't have access to a copier or scanner. It was also handy for scanning magazine or newspaper items, since you just roll it over them rather than feed the paper through it, When it wore out after several years of regular use, I had to replace it.

The new VuPoint scanner I have works just as easily, running off two "AA" batteries. It connects via the included cable to a USB port. Scans are saved on a Micro SD card (not included) and I can open them into an image editing program to trim edges. (I use Paint.) I do wish it had the monochrome setting of my older model, which could create smaller files for e-mailing, but it gives excellent results on any reasonably smooth, flat surface.

The scanner, along with its connector cable, fits in the included drawstring pouch, and I carry it in a pack with my laptop for work.
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I bought it thinking that I could go to the clerk's office and copy the genealogical records to put on the computer, but although the clerks at the Smyth County Courthouse in VA can make copies for fifty cents a page, they maintain that a handheld scanner will damage the books. Since then, I've hand copied everything; it's slower but the spite value is tremendous.
I use the VuPoint for scanning old family photos and letters, though, and it works like a dream.

Spent 5 minutes reading instructions and this great little scanner made short work of scanning receipts I needed to email to my employer!! I love it!! I didn't use the software included, I simply uploaded to Windows Live Photo Gallery (created a "receipts" folder in Pictures first) and magically I had JPG files of my receipts. I rotated to right-side-up the receipt that got scanned upside-down - easy as pie. I didn't use the card adapater, I find the cord easier to handle than taking that tiny little card in and out of the scanner, and no more or less time consuming. I think I'll pop this little scanner into my knitting bag - to have at knitting club to copy patterns. I'm sure I'll think of many other uses. Delighted with this purchase.

GREAT ITEM. BEING IN THE MILITARY AND DEALING WITH ALOT OF HAND RECEIPTS AND DOCUMENTS THIS ITEM MAKES IT VERY EASY TO KEEP ALL MY DOCUMENTS IN ORDER ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS NO COPIER MACHINE READILY AVAILABLE. I USE THIS THING ALOT. I ALSO LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN USE THE USB CORD TO CONNECT TO A COMPUTER OR PULL OUT THE SIM CARD AND PLACE IN A CARD READER. GREAT ITEM, THANKS.

I haven't had this very long but after all the reviews I read I thought I'd mention something I didn't read anywhere and that's an explanation of exactly HOW FAST this thing is.... It scans as if it's just pushing paper straight through. It scans faster that any printer I've ever seen prints, including the gas station laser receipts or thermal printers. It's really FAST.
As far as jams, it has warnings about certain materials but it pushes flimsy receipts through really well.
When people say it's a nice scanner, that's an understatement.

We use these all over our company, and everyone loves these scanners! We bought these as a means to move people away from fax machines, and it has worked well. Everyone loves the convenience of being able to scan without getting up from their desk, and the ability to send a scanned document straight to email. The recipients of those emails loved it right away, too, as the scans were in color, higher definition and much clearer and easier to read than a speckled, black and white fax printout.

The feeder holds a max of 10 pages. You put them in face down and it pulls the bottom one in first. If you set it to "Duplex" mode, it scans both sides of the page at the same time. Once the document is scanned, it pops up a window with options for you to decide what to do with the scan. You can email it, save it as a .JPG or .PDF, print it (no more trips to the copier!), or add it to the software's organizer, which is nice, because it keeps all your scans in one place for future reference.

We've been using these model for a couple of years and haven't had a single problem, and the folks who have them say they use them every day don't know how they've lived without them before.

I bot this from Amazon in June 2014. I liked it though did not give it heavy use as I often needed to use my flat bed scanner. I am writing this review to let folks know what great support I received from Fujitsu when I had a problem. I put something that was too thick in it to scan and the pad assembly popped out. I could not get it back in so called Fujitsu. A series of support folks patiently worked with me, sent me photos of how it should look etc and finally I was able to get it back in. They even called me several times and left a voice mail! All and all they went above and beyond what I would have expected, and they were all just great to work with. My experience will make me much quicker to buy a Fujitsu product. There was no charge for any of this support, even though I was well past the one-year warranty period, and my scanner now works just fine!

Amazing, took me months to decide which scanner to get, but I got this one with the software bundle because I wanted to have all the features.

Document scanning = perfect if you want to scan home office to personal use. It is slow if you are doing masses of paper. I had a backlog of papers (medical, personal, legal) that all needed scanned, but I knew after I caught up I wouldn't be scanning but a few a day. This is perfect for this as it takes up little to no space and is more than capable of scanning a page after page, I even took stacks of 10 and kept adding to it as it went through them and did large quantities without issue.

Card scanning = works great on thinner soft cards, full heavy plastic cards do scan but I tend to have to push them down a bit so it can grab onto them. My wife had about 200 business size cards she didn't want to part with, took me about 20 minutes to scan them in with this (It was fun, especially to get rid of them after)

Receipt scanning = Okay, this is just a hard thing to do overall anyway, but it does it and does it well. I'm not saying its not the most annoying thing to scan, but I've found due to paper differences in thickness and length, it's best to hand feed them if they are not the same length, I set it to keep scanning so if I fall behind or something happens it prompts me if I want to keep scanning. I can do a month of personal receipts in 15 minutes which is pretty good. The do have software for receipts I think I had to email and request it or do a huge online request with serial/model/registration, but their software is really good, and you can import old receipts you scanned before having the software, if you keep up on scanning it really does a good job tracking your purchases and after helping it know what each item or store name looks like it works very well, at least for me I don't mind correcting small things because let's face it a receipt left in a purse sometimes is hard to work with.

I buy something from Amazon almost everyday and I have never written a review, I am just too darn busy. But this scanner is too good for me not to give it a review. I own a mac and scanners have always had bad interfaces for macs (maybe for PCs too). This is the fastest scanner I have ever used and the software is brilliantly simple and straightforward. I have boxes of ancient documents I can't stand to keep and can bring myself to throw away. I am filling garbage can every day of documents I have quickly scanned and sorted. Now I can toss this old stuff in good conscious. The unit is tiny but solid. You will be surprized at how heavy and solid this thing is when you open it up. It is obviously well made. I would go on and on but let me just say, I have owned about 10 scanners in my life. This is by far the best.

My wand makes my daily email newsletter a lot easier to create. I run the wand over newspaper stories, then easily download it to my Apple laptop, edit, crop and enhance. I'm on my third wand now and I have had a couple of problems though. The first one (after a good year) would only scan by going from down to up, the opposite of how its supposed to be done. I got tired of that, so ordered a second one. That one lasted almost a year, and then, for some reason, it wouldn't download anymore! So I had to order a third one. After that one arrived, I was disappointed to discover that the scanned downloaded pics of newspaper articles were too dark to be useful. After several unsuccessful attempts to have it fixed by the VuPoint techs, they finally figured out how to fix it: they 'recalibrated' it using a gray sheet of paper, rather than the white sheet that accompanies the package you receive. So I give them an 'A' for fixing the problem. Finally, I really, obviously, like this wand and highly recommend it to you.

I got this for my son who draws a lot and posts his drawings online, Easy for a 13 year old to operate, and it's easy for him to import his scans into computer. My only problem is the USB that comes with it doesn't fit in the case provided. I absolutely hate it when manufacturers won't spend the extra 10 cents or whatever to make the case a tiny bit bigger to accomodate required accessories like a USB or power cord.

Other than that, this does what it is supposed to do.

This scanner will not replace a good flat bed scanner. However, if you need a scanner for genealogical work at a County Clerk's office, this is a good one for the job. The two issues I had are that there is no way to limit what you scan. e.g. if the document you are scanning is 4x6, the area on at least two sides will have to be edited. Also you will have to be very careful how you scan otherwise the resultant image will be not be square. These limits being considered, the images are at minimum acceptable and at most very good.

Pretty good little scanner. I used it for about 50 scans on some very old pictures and letters. It does a pretty good job and isn't too sensitive to movement. Very portable and great to use on the go. I would recommend. If you want super terrific quality, you should look to pay more, but for the price, this does the trick. Also used it to scan my kid's art projects etc, so we don't have to keep them around forever :-). Only real con that I see, is that it would be great if it would crop the scan to the actual image area. All scans are 8.5" wide.

I bought this for school, as I am terrible about losing important paperwork that I end up needing later. Being able to scan without being connected to a computer is extremely handy. Even on the lowest DPI scan, it produces sharp images of a black and white handouts, with each page taking about 2 seconds to slide across. At the highest setting, you do need to slow your roll some and take 5-7 seconds per scan, but I have found I only needed high settings for the smallest of text (and for color of course). It doesn't recognize the edges of the paper however, so you may end up with scans that need to be cropped in order to remove the edges that have a nice scan of the desk you were working on. Not important to me, but if you needed more professional scans for a presentation or something it may be something you need to think about. I would hate to scan 100 things and have to edit each one to remove it.

The device itself is nicely portable, it actually has the same width as my MS Surface Pro, so it fits easily into the tablet bag I use for the Pro. The scanner came with a sleeve to protect it.

My only complaint about the scanner is that you CAN'T hook it to a computer to instantly see your scan. You have to scan first, then connect it, and then it works like a removable drive with the files listed. It So if you are scanning a ton of pages, instead of being able to glance at each one on the PC as you go, you have to wait and do it all afterwards.

The software that comes with it is helpful, but not perfect. It converts JPG scans into Word, Excel, PDF, and Emails, but it cannot do anything with a PDF scan. This may be a limitation imposed by Adobe, or a ploy for you to upgrade to their professional edition ($90 at the time of this post), I am not sure. I do see the professional version gives you the ability to convert PDF files.

This would get 5 stars if I didn't have to put a wedge under the piece of plastic that feeds one sheet of paper. Thankfully before I purchased the unit, I read about that solution in someone else's post on Amazon and it worked great! Also, the app is just ok - not great. Some things should be a little easier to find and figure out. Once I changed the scan quality and set the scanner to "keep" scanning in to the same document that it was creating... I was in heaven! I had like a 6 hour marathon and was worried the scanner would overheat or somehow die on me. Thankfully it is still good to go because I have lots more to do!

I needed a small scanner to put on my desk top to scan receipts and that type of thing. I had a few starts and stops getting it set up. I ended up having to go online and download drviers because I could not get the CD to work. About a week after I set it up and used it quite a bit, it came up with some error and I basically had to delete all the drivers and reinstall. Now it works like a charm and I am very pleased. As long as I don't keep running into that error message, I'm very happy with this product. It is compact and very easy to use.

After much research, I decided to purchase this ScanSnap S1300i. I use this scanner for my home office, in which I scan receipts, bills, and important documents. It scans all of these documents as expected, but I do have to manually feed the paper one sheet at a time if I'm scanning more than 3 or 4 sheets together. It often pulls multiple sheets through at the same time. You just have to be really quick in doing this because it won't attach it to the same document if it doesn't scan continuously. I also love that this is a duplex scanner, but you can opt for it to scan the front page only if duplex isn't needed. The ScanSnap Organizer is great! I can't compare it to other similar programs, but it does everything I need! If you are looking for a scanner for your home or small office or need something portable, this will do the job. If you have a larger office, or intend on scanning documents with many sheets often, I would recommend spending the extra money and getting a Fujitsu desktop model.

I don't really need to write this review as the others have said it all... with great specific pros and cons... but I'll weigh in as a Mac user. I selected this scanner after MUCH reading because it's very MAC compatible... and much less expensive than those more highly rated. I took away one star because there is no software to scan business cards for Mac... or at least none that I discovered. Otherwise it is better than expected. I'm in the process of estate planning and this thing has made scanning all the docs actually fun. It's extremely easy to use, makes nearly perfect pdf copies and has many options that I may never use but appreciate having. Save yourself some money, this device lives up to the hype.

I've been on the lookout for a true duplex scanner for quite some time. Three years ago, I purchased an Epson V500 Photo, and while it was a great photo scanner and did well at scanning single sided, one-page documents, I was a bit daunted at the idea of scan/flip/switch/flip/switch/flip/etc... scanning for my longer documents. I didn't want to rely on a scanner which used a duplex document feeder (but still scanned one side at a time) because they tend to be unreliable, especially if the paper isn't perfect.

I had pretty much settled on a Fujitsu ScanSnap brand scanner, because for a long time, that was about the only affordable duplex scanner. I wasn't happy with the need to choose between Mac or PC, though, because I use both, but for different things. Unfortunately, all of Fujitsu's products were specifically limited to one platform or the other. I ended up putting off the purchase multiple times just because I wasn't happy with the offerings available.

I would go back every few months, though, and look again, both at Fujitsu and others. When I did a search on duplex scanners a couple of months ago, I noticed several new offerings, both from Fujitsu and other companies. Epson has a new Workforce series, Brother has a couple of new machines and Fujitsu has the new S1300i, which finally had both Windows and Mac compatibility. After a bit of indecision, I finally settled on the Scansnap, ordered it from Amazon and waited impatiently for the scanner to arrive.

Here are my observations after a month (and over 1000 scans) of using it.
The Good:
From the beginning I've enjoyed the ScanSnap s1300i. The ScanSnap Organizer program works well for keeping my PDFs organized, and the interface for the scanner software is pretty easy for scanning documents, both single page and multipage.
The scanner is able to be powered by a second USB cable (which makes it portable), or by plugging it in to the wall (which will produce faster scans).
There is only a single button on the scanner, which is lit when the scanner is on and ready for scanning, or dark when it has powered itself down or you've closed the "lid" (the fold down document feeder will power off the unit when it is closed).
It provides excellent quality PDF files, and the OCR capabilities (provided by an OEM copy of ABBYY Finereader) work better than expected for most documents.
The Automatic Document Feeder is rated at ten pages, but I can get at least 20 or so in there without a problem, then I can drop 10 or so more at a time after it has scanned some. I have successfully scanned 70 page documents in this way.
The scanner is able to be used with either (or both) Mac and PC machines.

The Bad:
The software isn't TWAIN compliant, meaning you can't use it from within other programs, like Adobe Acrobat or PhotoShop. This is only a minor annoyance, since you can scan to a file, then automatically open the file with a particular program (chosen from the ScanSnap Manager program).
The Scanner is OKAY at scanning photos. I did a side by side comparison between the ScanSnap and my Epson, and the Epson wins the quality contest, hands down. You can readily see the JPG mosaic patterns and artifacts (and you can ONLY save image files as JPG) in the ScanSnap file, even on the highest scan settings.
The scan settings are limited to 1200 dpi for black and white, and 600 for color. This is more than adequate for documents (I generally scan at 600 b&w/300 color), but it is a limitation. I don't know why the resolution is different for b&w vs color, but it is.
Since the scanner is a "Sheetfed" type, you can't scan things which are too stiff to go through the paper path. This isn't a problem for most things, and it should be pretty obvious when you're purchasing the scanner that this will be a limitation, but just in case you haven't thought about it, there it is.
The scanner has "consumables", meaning the pick rollers and pad assembly, which are rated at 100,000 and 10,000 scans, respectively. This is actually both good and bad, since these parts aren't user replaceable on most units, and they will just start giving sheet feed errors (too many pages at a time, or not grabbing any pages). However most scanners pads will be rated for more scans.
The scanner has a problem reading "legal" paper if the scan begins with "letter" paper. The manual says you can't mix different paper lengths in the same scan batch, but you actually can do this, so long as the first page scanned is a "legal" size sheet.

The Ugly:
Nothing. There are no "showstopper" problems with this scanner that I have come across.

Overall, I love the scanner. It is great for scanning documents, which is the exact reason I purchased it. I'm giving it four stars out of five, and mostly knocking the one star off because of the JPG quality, and the mixed paper length problem. It's really more of a 4.25, but regardless, I can't give it five stars because of these issues.

I like that this scanner is portable and you can scan large amounts of photos quickly. However you need a really steady hand or your pictures end up with waves in them. You also have to crop out the background (like the table you scanned them on). It worked okay for the project I needed it for, but it's been sitting in the drawer ever since.

I like the product, but I ordered it before I realized that it is an older model.

The concept of this is pretty nice, but it picks up the scan and every little move your hand makes shows. This should be expected. So, if you desire really nice, perfect scans, you will be disappointed. It would be a good product to just have on hand if you need to make a quick scan of something on the go.

This scanner will work but it isn't easy. I would do better with it if I had someone to hold what I'm scanning firmly still. I will be getting rid of it soon as I now have an Epson scanner/copier/printer/fax machine. Of course, it will not fit into a drawer as the VuPoint Scanner will!

The good:
- It's small and portable. Battery life on two cheap alkaline AAs from IKEA seems to be decent.
- It is fully standards-compliant and requires no driver installation whatsoever, it simply writes files to a microSD card and then acts as a standard card reader when plugged into a computer.

The bad:
- It deals very poorly with even slight wrinkles or creases in what you're scanning. Even if it's an otherwise perfectly crisp piece of paper that's been unfolded from a standard business envelope, the resulting image will have some kind of a glitch in it. I tried to remedy this by buying a small rectangle of clear acrylic to provide a flat surface over which to scan, but this resulted in a blurry image instead of a glitchy one. A standard copier transparency helps a little if you're trying to scan a smaller item such as a receipt.
- There's a large dead zone on the scanner's margins, this makes it useless for scanning pages from a book of any size.
- Holding both the scanner and thing you're scanning as you try to swipe the scanner along its length at an even rate of speed can be awkward. Using a surface with some grip to it can help with this.

In summation, the concept is kind of neat, certainly not the worst piece of technology I've ever used, but for practical purposes, at this point I think I'll just invest in a standard flatbed or automatic-feed scanner.

well, I have had this for less than 6 months and already the optical sensor is broken. I tried to scan something and the quality was lousy. Then it said the optical sensor was faulty.

I have called Fujitsu as I registered it. I hope they help me.

I am very disappointed. It had been working quite well up till today..

I would have given this product five stars if it had come with a twain driver. I probably would not have bought this if I had known that it did not have a twain driver interface. I understand that Fujitsu did this to appease an audience of users who don't want to deal with complicated driver interfaces however not having the twain interface forces you to use Fujitsu's values for scanning and limits it's true ability to interface with other scanning software.

If we were only talking about the hardware it would be 5 stars. But we are not. There is a possibility, don't know the probability and apparently, neither does ScanSnap, that ScanSnap files created earlier could be damaged by some incompatibility with the new Mac operating system. Here are the latest comments from ScanSnap.

Available: October 17, 2016
For ScanSnap models: S1500, S1500M, S1300, S1100

An update installer for ScanSnap Manager will be available at Fujitsu Global website. The update will resolve how PDF files are created, allowing them to be modified on macOS Sierra going forward without the reported problems. This category update will not resolve PDF files previously created by ScanSnap, therefore, return to this page for latest news and schedule of availability.

Available: End of October
For ScanSnap Evernote Edition

Online Update will provide users an update notification for ScanSnap Manager for Evernote Edition that will resolve how PDF files are created, allowing them to be modified on macOS Sierra going forward without the reported problems. This first update will not resolve PDF files previously created, therefore, return to this page for latest news and schedule of availability.

The long and short of it is I have not upgraded to macOS Sierra. My sense is that if this was a problem with Windows it would already be fixed.

I bought this to tackle my growing piles of paper. I also wanted to digitize my backlog of key papers and archive these to Evernote. Previously, I had used the flatbed scanner that came with my printer. When my printer bit the dust recently, I decided to look for a dedicated scanner with a good form-feeder because, it's a pain to manually feed papers into the flatbed. I was torn between this and the Doxie product. A couple of features that tipped the scales toward the ScanSnap is its better form-feeding. True, you the Doxie is a little smaller but, let's face it, you tend to do all your scanning in one place and the ScanSnap is small enough to tote where its needed. It seemed to me that the Doxie is more geared to scanning smaller batches. The form-feeding is a key part to addressing my paper backlog and even day-to-day scanning.

One thing that's a bit misleading is that, despite the description, you're really going to need to plug this into the wall if you're going to use it. True, you can run it off of the USB, but the software is slower and it's a quick drain of your laptop if you go this route.

Once you get your ScanSnap hooked up and ready to go, you get the promotional video describing its features and introducing you to its online community. The video is VERY MISLEADING in that it shows different sized papers being fed simultaneously. In practice this does not work at all! Shame on you Fujitsu!

Another disappointment is the ScanSnap folder. I like the idea of one place for your scanned documents that deletes after a period of time but, in practice, this feature is buggy. Often your scans would disappear or somehow not make it to the folder in the first place. I bypass the folder altogether in favor of a dedicated folder I set up for this purpose.

Yet another disappointment is the form profiles. It's a good idea in theory but it's execution is another matter. The profiles are set according to where the images are stored. A better use of profiles is to have the profiles based on the type of document (e.g. business cards, letter-sized color 2 sided, etc.)

An irritation is the dialogue box you get after a scan. This tells the number of pages rotated as well as the number of blank pages suppressed. You have to click "OK." (No other option) This is a waste of time! Fujitsu could've incorporated this info on the next screen that asks where you want to put the scanned image.

Despite the above frustrations, I've kept my ScanSnap. The hardware is good. It does a decent job feeding and scanning. The OCR software does a respectable job straightening images and making them searchable. I have Adobe Standard that can take a PDF document and make it searchable while straightening it up. Generally, I haven't had to use Adobe in 80-85% of my scans.

For what you get, I think it's a bit overpriced. If the software and features worked as promoted, I would be more excited. I've had to develop workarounds that I didn't count on but, to be fair, it is a key piece of my paperless efforts despite the flaws.

The ScanSnap works pretty well. I have been using it for about 2 months with my Evernote app in an effort to go completely paperless. I have several years of records and documents to scan and it's held up great so far.
My only complaints are the following: 1. It takes about 10 seconds per page when you use the high-quality resolution settings, 2. It frequently double or triple feeds pages which requires constant vigilance when you are scanning a multi-page document, 3. It will not properly feed magazine articles on its own -you have to guide the pages in by hand one-by-one, if left alone the ScanSnap spool will crumple the pages at worst or feed them at an awkward angle.
Overall, I would still recommend the ScanSnap for small infrequent scanning jobs, but if you have a large amount of documents to scan or want a quicker more efficient scanner I would go with a larger more industrial scanner.

very difficult to work. foggy appearance on the scanned page near the center.

Could not use this due to the fact that if your item to be copied wasn't flat, it would catch under the scanner as you rolled over it. You could , of course put your item to be copied in a plasic envelope or sleeve, but I felt that to be too much trouble to make this an efficient item.

I like the idea but it is not scanning properly. the green light comes on to scan and stops before i barely start. will have to return it. i did email VuPoint but have not received a response yet.;

Does not scan images as seemlessly as you would imaging. Works good if you have no other options for scanning.

Yes, it is easy and convenient, but it is impossible to scan anything without getting obvious distortion of the image. It is okay if all you want is a record of a receipt or something, but it is worthless for any kind of precision work, such as scanning photos.

This scanner MIGHT be good for you if your primary concern is having a compact sized scanner... and if you only scan one or two pages at a time... and if scan speed is not important to you. I have another Fujitsu ScanSnap (larger one) that I love, so I had high hopes for this. I was very disappointed. Scanning speed was super slow. And right from the first scan (of 10 pages), it grabbed 3 pages at once, resulting in a paper jam. This is definitely getting returned.

The device itself is great - the dual-side scanning, the scan rate, the automatic document feeder, the overall quality of the produced image, OCR, all quite good. Where this product fell down was its companion software. The ScanSnap Manager and ScanSnap Organizer Windows applications demonstrate an overall lack of polish. I wasn't thrilled with ScanSnap Manager, but it was good enough to get the job done - and I was prepared to live with that. The experience that pushed me over the edge (and to ultimately return the product) was that ScanSnap Organizer would refresh the entire display any time I clicked on anything. While it was refreshing, I could not do anything else. No other software on my machine exhibits this behavior, so the problem seemed to be specific to this software. I was disappointed to learn this, because the product looked quite solid.I'm going to try my luck with the Doxie Q - wireless rechargeable document scanner with automatic document feeder (ADF) and see how that goes.

Purchased for mobile business.
UPDATE: We have only used the scanner a couple of times, and now it is "FROZE" and will not allow scanning. A blue light stays on and will not change. I have tired unplugging, leaving unplugged for some time, still nothing. I can not see that there is anything in the buffer or the que or whatever, but it is not operable and the return window has passed. Now it is an expensive paper weight. Very frustrated.

Careful with this one if you are running Windows 10. Driver software is not stable and usually needs to be resinstalled once a week or more. Support team is helpful but until new driver is issued (no date projection I can find) there are better options. Like the way it works when it works.

when it worked, it was great, but I kept having problems with the drivers and then when I had to replace my computer with a windows 8, I can't get it to work on any of my computers....I have taken my desktop and laptop in a couple of times to try and have the drivers reinstalled, but it is only temporary......I paid alot of money, but got little use out of the device....it may have worked very well on Windows 7......

I won't buy or recommend this to anyone

The first problem was not finding out that it needed and did not come with the micro SD card. The second problem was that no matter what I tried, after calibrating, reformatting and so on, I could not get it to go into scan mode. My theory is that this has something to do with the fact that the same button is used for Power (hold 2 seconds) and Scan (supposedly press once). I bought it several months ago and have not had a chance to use it until now so I am really hoping I can send it back.

This was just hard to use and with smartphone scanning the way it is, this seems obsolete

It does not work without the external memory card which is over $40. Too flimsy. It some times turned on an off on it own. I would not but it again.

Bought the Magic Wand portable scanner. Box said it came with software but when I opened the box there was no software. Contacted the Company and they denied even making the scanner, said to go back to who I bought it from. Wouldn't buy again.

I really liked this Scanner right up to the point that it just went dead and stopped working. Not a good investment for a product that did not do more than 200 scans and then fried

I bought this in March and have used it 3 times, no more than 3 sheets at a time, no staples, regular paper, and the scanner has died. Completely dead. So disappointed! Researched for weeks before deciding to spend so much on a personal scanner, and now it's too late to return it- just 12 weeks in!

Doesn't work with latest version of MacOS -- El Capitan v10.11.4. Tried included DVD & online download from Fujitsu site mentioned in the included installation phamphlet.

This is by far is the worst thing i've ever bought. The machine jams all the time. It loves to tile papers and when you feed multiple once, it tilts the first one and jams the rest. Oh, and when it doesn't do that and works, it feeds multiple pages at once. So, if you're not paying attention and sitting guard by the machine, it will skip pages.

Oh, and don't get me started on the stupid software. WHY SO MANY STEPS TO SAVE A DOCUMENT? AND WHY CAN'T IT JUST REMEMBER THE LAST SETTINGS? Here's what the software dose after you setup the distention where you're saving the document, quality etc. The software shows you tiny review of scanned document then ask you every time where you want to save the document then shows you another preview and ask you again where you want to save it. Image doing that for 10-20 each scan. UGH!! annoying!!

Then we come to customer service. Is the worst. When I requested to return it, and because I no longer have the box, I was told that I had to pay $135 which's 50% of cost of Scansnap just for the box. AWEFUL!!

Let me start off by saying that I bought this to use exclusively as a business card scanner. Therefore, if the rest of the Mac software is better, I haven't even looked at it. I have a separate flatbed/auto-feeder scanner that I use for documents. So someone looking to use the S1300i as a document scanner may fare better than I did.

The hardware looks pretty good. Nice and compact, with a quick scan button on the top. Not a show-stopper, but due to the well in the feeding mechanism, it puts a slight curve into most business cards, but not enough to be a problem if you are putting them into a business card sleeve. If using a rolodex or flat file, it may be not be as desirable a trait. It may also have feeding issues with heavy stock business cards.

But the big problem is the software.

The S1300i ships with the old Card IRIS software, which even their own customer support admits is old and pretty terrible. Other models ship with a newer and reportedly better program.

I've verified I'm using the latest version, and I've gone to the software download page on Fujitsu's web site to check for other software options. There are none.

Here's some of the show-stopper failures of this software:

- The export to Outlook option fails with a "Script Failed" error without further explanation. Wrote that off as non-functional. Great.
- It scans the front & back of cards separately, then displays each as an image in a scrollable stack. When you choose the "delete image" option, I would expect the list to become shorter with the removal of that image from the list. Nope. It replaces the image with a generic Card IRIS image, leaving the data it OCRd in the fields intact. Not entirely sure it would ultimately import it, but this is just so stupid I am speechless.
- The only phone number fields are "Phone", "Phone 2" and "Mobile phone". It maps "Phone 2" to "Home" in the subsequently created contact. This is ridiculous. Aside from the fact that most business cards do *NOT* tend to include a home phone number (and thus it is demented that this is the default), this should be a configurable field that aligns with the fields of the selected output program. Options such as "Work" and "Company Main" are much more appropriate. The only way to fix the phone number fields is to manually search out the contacts that are subsequently created one at a time and edit them to move the phone number to the right field.
- Not that this is a show-stopper, but I find it unusual that there is not even an option to export the image of the card into the contact that gets created.

This software is so terrible, I reached the conclusion that it would be less work to enter the contact information manually for a stack of cards on my desk rather than using this software before I have a chance to send it back. That's bad.

I am told that the newer models such as the IX500 ship with a much newer and much better program called CardManager. Fujitsu customer support tell me that they do not believe there is any reason that software would not work with the S1300i, unless there is a function that intentionally disables it if it detects this model. However, they are not permitted to make that software available to customers of products that did not ship with it.

Since I already have a full-sized scanner, and since $500 is not a reasonable price for a business card scanner, the IX500 is not an option. I think it is a complete failure on the part of Fujitsu's product manager to not have made the newer software available for use with all currently-shipping products. But that is their choice, and as a result, I will be dumping them and sending this back as quickly as possible.

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Update:
A Fujitsu customer service rep nervously agreed to send me the URL to download the newer CardManager app, expressing concern she may face disciplinary action for prioritizing customer service. I made it clear to her that I would be very happy to let her manager know my true and honest thoughts if she does indeed face any sanctions for caring more about customers than her management.

Therefore, I have now had a few minutes to examine the Mac version of CardManager, which Fujitsu does not want its S1300i customers to have. It's better, but not great. The "Home" phone number issue is resolved, because now the software only recognizes one single phone number instead of two. That is NOT what I had in mind as a solution. Fields still cannot be manually mapped. The Address field does not permit manual editing of Street/City/State/Zip/Country, and it all shows up in one single text area field. That means you won't know if it organized them into the right fields until after it exports to Contacts.

Similarly, the broken export to Outlook as been "fixed" through the removal of that feature (I'm seeing a pattern here). The only export option is now to Contacts.

It also lost a feature from CardIRIS that permitted a string of text to be automatically included in the Notes field of any scanned contact.

So overall, it still utterly fails the test of whether it simplifies the process substantially. There is absolutely NO REASON a user should ever have to pull up a newly scanned contact in any other app after the export to add or fix information, because the opportunity to fix all data should be in the Card Manager app. The export should be the absolute final step in the process.

It's still crap, and it's still going back.