[nabs-l] ScanSnap

[Domonique Lawless]

Joseph,
That sounds really cool. if you decide to buy it  could you let us
know how it works out?

Domonique

On 3/19/09, T. Joseph Carter <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> He all,
>
> I was wondering if any of you had ever seen the Fujitsu ScanSnap
> sheet-fed scanners?  The marketing materials make it sound like a
> truly remarkable little device.
>
> The portable version can be connected to two USB ports (needed for
> power) and folds down into something the size of a box of aluminum
> foil.  The desktop version folds up into a "blobject" smaller than
> most inkjet printers.
>
> Supposedly what sets the thing apart is how you use it.  Plug the
> thing in, open it up, stick documents into the hopper, press the
> button, and watch the show.  The show consists of two-sided scanning,
> handling of different-sized pages, correcting skewed documents, and
> depending on what you've configured it to do, it can also OCR the
> documents and do other post-processing.
>
> The software suites vary between Mac and PC, but on the PC side the
> software includes Acrobat, FineReader, and CardMinder, as well as its
> own document manager.  The Mac version exists (and it's what I'd buy
> for myself), but I wonder how accessible the software is to Windows
> screen readers?
>
> The major thing about this device is that it is not TWAIN or ISIS
> compliant.  You could arrange that via the UNIX SANE system and
> whatever passes for a TWAIN-SANE bridge for Windows, but that's just
> crazy-talk in my mind.  It's really meant to use with its own
> software, and its own software generates documents, not images.
>
> Has anyone tried it?  I suspect the basic scanner driver probably
> works well, and you could then set it up to open PDFs with whatever
> you like.  (Most Windows ScanSnap users recommend OneNote, but blind
> users may find any number of other things to use..)  I wonder though
> if the ScanSnap Organizer is even remotely usable by a blind person.
>
> Flatbed scanners are just horrid for anything but pictures, in my
> mind.  I'm kind of excited by the prospect of the ScanSnap because
> people say it really is what it claims to be: A document scanner,
> designed to get paper into your computer in an indexed, sorted, and
> searchable way.  Stick "accessible" in there somewhere and Fujitsu is
> gonna sell a lot of these things to blind people.
>
> Joseph
>
>
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