Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Portable Scanner Demonstration

You know one thing that get the wrap in technology or that you never really see anymore is scanners. You know people forgot about the fact that scanner are so handy to have maybe because a lot of them are built in to printer these days but I can tell you that if you don’t have a printer at your desk and you want to scan a document it can be real pain to try to get that done, in fact the other way I need to scan the document and literally have to leave the building and fax it to myself so that I can get the digital copy, pretty ridiculous right. Well today we’re going to take to look at scan now, this is the by the guide of Fujitsu and this is there S1300 model the thing I like about it is it’s very portable so not only it is great and take up a small sort of foot print on your desks when you have your home office set up or your office set up but you can also take it with you and this will be perfect for things like realtors because they have the ability to plug into a USB port to get it power. You know you can plug it into the wall here in the office but if you are on the road and say you’re realty and you want to scan a quick contract will you just plug it into your laptop and it takes the USB power from there and you can easily scan a contract and then email that off to somebody. And again when we talk about form factor it fold that nice and small it can be take away pretty easily. So let’s take to look with the kind of things that you would actually scan and how that looks. Will first of all you see up on the screen here I’ve got the software that scan software and what its done is it’s look it my particular computer and found every piece of software that I have loaded that could make sure of a scan documents so in this case I have Microsoft Office loaded so it shows me that I can scan the word, scan to excel, scan to power and I can also scan to email or scan to print. I decided to scan a document that has writing on two sides which is pretty cool to scan that because it can actually scan both sides at the same time the patch of the document through want that I found was pretty cool so I didn’t have to put it through twice. The thing I thought it was interesting here about the scan picture that you can see in my screen not only did it get every single bit of text and turn it into word text so that could actually edit or change anything I want too but it actually keep the far the same roughly the same font size, it keep the headings the same and in cases where you can see here at the bottom we’ve got things like colored writing, it keep all that the same as well so it keep most of the formatting. I was pretty impress by all of that so I though let’s take that one step further. In this document we thought we try something a little bit more technical, this one have things like logos, it’s got nested tables, lot of different formatting and if you take a look behind me here with actually scan this one it did a pretty good job, one thing it did screw up was the logo. Here is the blink logo that has little start bust that goes around it, it look that in a though I think that’s actually text and what it did is it represented here on the screen and kind of like pink highlighted text so I could actually go in and edit that for example I can make it black. And the point here is that you probably want that part remain as a graphic but let’s go a little bit further here and what they do which I thought was incredible was scan this table that was in the document and it keep all the formatting. So then we thought we push the envelop a little bit and we wanted to scan a document that had a lot of images and a lot of color and it just to see what will happen. Will I’ll show you what happen with that one, I cut by on the screen and this is interesting because it’s actually scan the images as images so I can take this and I can move them around and I can even save them if all I wanted was the image of the document and then it made all of the text formatted you can start to see here that some of the spacing and everything doesn’t quite line up well and again if you just compare and go back to heading and how we have all this it did and cap the letters right but didn’t completely get it well so in this particular case I probably call that one a fail but in the other two it did incredibly well. One other thing I wanted to mention about the scan snap is not just documents that you can scan but you can actually scan things like business cards as well so if I put this little business card in there you can go ahead and scan that and we’ve actually done that up on the screen here where we scan the number of different business cards, it uses the card minder software to read the business card and tell you what the text is so we tried this one here for Johnny one of our camera men, we did this one here for Wil our director of photography and we did this one for the week with a jerky guy and unfortunately with all three of those cards we didn’t quite get the ability to automatically take the name and put it in the proper field so for business card I think that maybe something like the card scan might be a little bit better job versus the scan snap but overall for scanning documents at your computer double sided quickly, I think this is a great little solution it’s the scan snap and it’s the S1300 model, if you got some scanning to do check it out.