The Fujitsu iX500 ($495) is a capable and likeable document scanner for personal or small office use. It met its rated speeds in our tests and lost almost no time when saving files to searchable PDF. The scanner did well in both text recognition and business card scanning.

Very fast at scanning to searchable PDF; Met its rated simplex and duplex scan speeds; Good optical-character-recognition (OCR); Did well at reading business cards; Misfeed-free in our testing; Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 connectivity

You can't give a scan command from within an application; Scanning to some programs may require several steps; Only connects wirelessly to one computer at a time; Documentation could use improvement

This printer is great for large companies that need to scan and print large quantities. It's best placed on a desktop as it is a sheet fed scanner and has to be plugged in to the mains and it has a USB3 port to connect it to a computer.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500's reliable scanning performance and export options make it an excellent workhorse document scanner.

You can sync your scanned documents to any mobile device

It's hard to find customer support information

The $499.95 (list) NeatDesk and the other "Neat" scanner products are designed with a high-level of hand-holding involved, and are most likely advantageous for those with the discipline to diligently scan and catalog their paper business cards, receipts, bills, and other business-oriented bits of...

Like its predecessor, the Fujitsu S1500, the ix500 is a duplexing, ADF scanner. In English, that means it scans both sides of a document at the same time and automatically feeds documents through it. You just load a bunch of documents in the machine and press the scan button.

Fast, even on USB 2.0; Easy to use; Excellent color scans, much better than the S1500's; No longer requires Adobe Acrobat

Nuance Power PDF less than great (only one user per license); Vague directions; Use brick type power supply

Fujitsu ix 500 scan snap far exceeded my expectations.It was recommended for scanning multiple pages of documents in a short time.It is expensive, but its been paying for itself in a huge way.If one has lots of documents to scan with speed and ease of use, one should simply buy it.Yes it cost far...

This is the 2nd Scansnap I bought. I am still using my first one but needed another one. I bought this one a) because of how well the last one has been working HOWEVER... the wireless capability is much below what I expected.

Works flawlessly but...

I have to hard wire it for use on 2 PC's; wireless is useless

I work in a law firm that is currently going paperless and has been for over a year now, and i've inherited the scan snap desktop scanner. and at first i was "wow this is a great little gadget how convenient", but now i'm singing a different tune. So, far i do more of resetting the papers and...

With excellent performance, solid build quality and a deep feature set, the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 is a beast of a document scanner, with a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), duplex scanning, and more.

Very fast; Excellent OCR; Jam-free ADF; Easy to use

No TWAIN driver

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Compact design; incredibly useful features; great platform-agnostic support

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