{"id":15139,"date":"2016-07-11T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:35","slug":"praise-for-the-fujitsu-scansnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/praise-for-the-fujitsu-scansnap\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise for the Fujitsu ScanSnap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/fujitsu-scansnap-one-of-the-best-hardware-investments-ive-ever-made\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/fujitsu-scansnap-one-of-the-best-hardware-investments-ive-ever-made\/\">\n<p>If I had known, I would have opted for the more expensive ScanSnap iX500 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ATZ9QMO\/kirkmcelhearn\">Amazon.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00AR55MLU\/kirkmcelhearn0e\">Amazon UK<\/a>), which has a larger document feeder, and wifi, and is faster. And I&rsquo;ve thought from time to time that, if mine dies, I&rsquo;ll replace it with the better model, but it seems to be a workhorse. It&rsquo;s rare that I have a lot of documents to scan, and it&rsquo;s no hassle to have the device connected to my Mac.<\/p>\n<p>But, for now, this is one of the best pieces of hardware I&rsquo;ve ever bought. It&rsquo;s an essential tool for a modern home or office, where we are inundated with paper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried many document scanners over the years, but none worked reliably. I wanted to go paperless, but not if the hardware was always getting in the way. About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/13.03\/scansnap.shtml\">nine years ago<\/a>, I got a ScanSnap S500m. It seemed expensive, but it ended up being one of my best purchases ever. It&rsquo;s so easy to use, almost always does the right thing, and mine is still going strong today&mdash;although the plastic has yellowed like a Mac 128K.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: If I had known, I would have opted for the more expensive ScanSnap iX500 (Amazon.com, Amazon UK), which has a larger document feeder, and wifi, and is faster. And I&rsquo;ve thought from time to time that, if mine dies, I&rsquo;ll replace it with the better model, but it seems to be a workhorse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[952,30,623],"class_list":["post-15139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fujitsu-scansnap","tag-mac","tag-scanner"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15140,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}