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Latest Reviews Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 [Computer Shopper] Reviews Archive COMPANY: Fujitsu PRICE: £201 inc VAT Labs RATING: ISSUE: 244 DATE: Jun 08 How We Test LATEST PRICES: £206.78 (7 Retailers) ANALYSIS Columns Features Most sheet-feed scanners are bulky, desk-bound devices, but the ScanSnap S300 is the smallest A4 scanner we've INTERACTIVE ever reviewed and is designed to fit into a bag with a laptop. It can hold up to 10 A4 pages and can simultaneously scan IT Forums both sides. It comes with both mains and USB power Competitions adaptors, but USB power requires two ports on your Scrapbook computer and scans run at around half the speed. Shopper Mobile Pro Sweep Scanning a 10-page colour document at its lowest resolution took 59 seconds. At 150dpi, this setting (labelled JOBS Normal) is suitable only for the most basic document CareerBuilder archival. Although font sizes as small as 5pt were captured accurately, letters looked rough around the edges. Higher-resolution scans took longer - a single colour A4 SHOPPING page at 600dpi took 45 seconds to scan, but we couldn't fault the quality. Colours Deal of the Week were generally accurate, but yellow tones were slightly oversaturated. Bookshop Classifieds Installation was simple, though not quick. The S300 will work only if you use Fujitsu's own software. There's no TWAIN or WIA driver, so you can't use it directly with other DOWNLOADS document management programs. Fortunately, the Business ScanSnap Organiser Graphics software is excellent and did Desktop a far better job of managing Music scanned documents than its Internet competitors, such as the PDA Zone basic versions of Nuance's Utilities Omnipage and PaperPort programs that come with Web Development many HP and Canon FOCUS ON... scanners. Broadband ScanSnap Organiser Digital Cameras automatically collated our Security documents into PDF files, Processors correctly orienting them and Operating Systems discarding blank pages as it went. Scanned documents ADVERTISEMENT USEFUL INFO were compressed before FAQ being saved. Embedded OCR software can process scanned pages and transform them into fully searchable MAGAZINE PDFs, which is a great feature. This took a long time but the results were outstanding. There's no way to combine PDFs after they've been scanned, or to create batch-scan Subscribe Now jobs of more than 10 pages.

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Change Subscription The S300 also comes with CardMinder business card-scanning software. This wasn't Latest Issue as good at recognising names and numbers as other business card OCR programs we've seen, such as IRIS's Cardiris Pro. It couldn't read cards that were scanned FREE NEWSLETTER upside down and, like most business card-readers, couldn't handle dark cards with pale fonts. Register for your free weekly newsletter here The S300 is inexpensive compared to most sheet-feed scanners. We were impressed by the effective document management software and accurate, searchable PDFs. We'd have liked a batch-scan feature and the option of using other programs, but there's little else to fault. It's no use if you want to scan photos or artwork and its small tray isn't hugely convenient, but its compact size makes it a perfect choice if space is limited.

By Kat Orphanides

SPECIFICATIONS: 600x600dpi optical resolution, USB Hi-Speed interface. Power consumption 2W standby, 5W scanning

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