Fast scanner with faulty feeder and software errors

I bought the scanner in order to archive all my old folders and order the paper to master floods inundate my office. Unfortunately, I realized that the scanner is not is probably my first choice.

Pro:

- The scanner works very quickly for home and small office
- Let there be front and reverse sides are scanned in one go
- Light unit with LED technology - will probably still work in 50 years
- Very compact, the scanner on the desk practically disappears and you can take him once just

Cons:

- The catchment is far from optimal. I have constantly sides are drawn twice and the scanner does not notice it unfortunately. If I then click on the software, click Cancel, the scanner scans nevertheless continue until the sides in the catchment are all through. Since only the sides of the feeder helps remove. The last page in the feeder needs almost always just a little encouragement by hand in order to be drafted. If you want to scan only one side of it is the same.

- In the Scan Software "CaptureOnTouch" A maximum of 10 scan targets are defined. If one tries to define an eleventh this is "not up" acknowledged with the error message. This is quite annoying. Here it would be better if one could define as many scan destinations and the best in a tree structure. For example, receipts -> Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 and then maybe including distinctions in simplex and duplex because the rear of recognition strikes even when cash receipts where interested me but only the front. This leaves one only that one adjusts the settings each time. Unfortunately you have to for the different settings (for example, all pages individually or store together, mitscannen back, etc.) by clicking each time. Although the surface thereby acting very tidy, it is for professional use a little inefficient. Here I would find an Easy Mode and an Advanced Mode well. In the latter one would have all the important settings on a page without having to click through menus.

- The rear detection works only partially. With fresh paper coming out of the post in the scanner is not a problem, but if the pages are perforated, then throw the edges of the holes a shadow to the scanner detects the alleged content. As a result, one has then an empty back with two holes visible. It is expected such a thing to recognize not be a problem on the software side. Even with slightly darker environmentally friendly paper slams the back of recognition. Just who wants to scan their old folders with several years old documents, which will be constantly annoyed about it. Moreover, accidentally scanned blank pages can not be selected and deleted after scanning. You have to save the scan as a PDF in Acrobat, and then delete the pages

- The software not recognize when the sheet has been inserted upside down, so that you have to correct the later in Acrobat or all scans again.

- The small collection of business cards and plastic cards on the front works quite well. I have used it for parking receipts. Are these parking receipts but too small (For some machines you really get a very small occupied), then this causes a paper jam. About the large catchment This is unfortunately not so had to serve for my old flatbed scanner.

- Although photos can be scanned, but the quality is below ground. I can not hold against the scanner but, since it is not designed. Nevertheless, I would have hoped for a slightly better result. The photos are coming out here not even good enough for Facebook.

All in all, a scanner which is especially small, compact and fast. Who often go once just to scan a few pages here and there, or even want to scan a bill that is certainly very well served with the unit. Who but as I scanned 50 pages per week, for it is quite annoying especially by the constant double feeding of pages. The immature software you do the rest.

I have returned the scanner to Amazon and try it now with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500. According to reviews of the collection is to work perfectly and there offer the software much more.