ScanSnap iX1600 Wireless or USB High-Speed Cloud Enabled Document, Photo & Receipt Scanner with Large Touchscreen and Auto Document Feeder for Mac or PC, 17 watts, Black

Needed to scan about 50 bankers boxes of documents, checks, receipts, photos, etc. Our old Epson scanner was starting to fade. You can spend a ton of money on these standalone scanners… and $400 is not exactly cheap either, but after using it…. certainly money well spent for the time it saves. It connects via wifi (my old Epson did not), and I was able to quickly set it up so that all new scans defaulted to a folder in our dropbox cloud drive. No need to separate like items and it will scan both sides…. as well as orient the file right side up. Just make sure there are no staples in there, and fill the tray (it says 50, but you can stuff a bit more in there). You can pay more for larger feeder trays, but its not really necessary… as you can set it up so that you can load up to 1,000 pages for a single scanned file. Also, it is super fast… and surprisingly portable, folding into a neat little protected rectangular box shape in case you have a need to transfer it between multiple locations. No brainer for any office looking to reduce paper.

It’s quite refreshing to buy a product that just works! I primarily use this to scan donation slips for a charity. It takes less than a minute to scan a stack of 50 at once. Then you can continue the scan with the next stack inserted so I usually scan 200 to one pdf file. Today I did 980 without a jam and all scans were perfect. Amazing product.

I bought a Fujitsu fi5110EOX scanner in 2005 and liked it so much I bought a second one used in 2017. Both finally succumbed to rubber roller rot by 2024. The fi5110EOX had been a great scanner for the price, despite its paper-feeding quirks, and I figured that the similarly priced ScanSnap iX1600 would be a suitable replacement 19 years later.The first thing I scanned flew through the iX1600 so fast I thought something was wrong. Nope! It’s many times faster than the fi5110EOX.Summary:1) Faster scanning then many, even commercial grade printer-scanners costing thousands of $.2) Scans much straighter than the fi5110EOX, even for narrow receipts.3) Scans thick stacks of normal paper and NEVER misfeeds. Really!4) A stack may contain a mixture of different size sheets – it still feeds straight without jamming5) Scans thicker media than the fi5110EOX, even stacked6) Cannot handle stack with a mix of different thicknesses (that’s asking too much)7) I haven’t tested scanning from underneath – haven’t needed it8) The software included with the iX1600 works so well that I actually use it. (I gave up on the fi5110EOX software and used 3rd party (VueScan) software instead). Put anything in the hopper, press scan on the front panel, and it selects b/w or color appropriately. I only use VueScan when I want to set scanning parameters very specifically – which is seldom.9) The front touch display panel is easy to use (and I’m hard to please). When I feed it something inappropriate (like an envelope with the flap unsealed), the scanner will finish scanning the it, then stop, give a warning, and provide a choice of continuing, or quitting (with the option to save the scan just done). Very convenient.10) Goes into sleep mode automatically, unlike the fi5110EOX which kept the scanning lamp on unless I closed the lid.11) I don’t like the software’s default choice of file naming (month-day-year). I would prefer year-month-day. A minor complaint.I would buy it again and definitely recommend it.

tured workhorse. Bought this ix1600 to replace an extremely durable and speedy S1500 which was still working great 10 years after purchase but that was no longer officially supported under Windows 11. While initially I had hestitated to spend the money to replace something that wasn’t broken, everything about this new version is better and well worth the price. It’s even faster, and the wireless support and the ability to custom configure buttons on the LCD to do what you want really means you can place this thing anywhere and can almost eliminate the need to do any manual actions on the computer to organize the documents post scanning. The soft buttons on the LCD can be configured to send documents to specific destinations, ie cloud, printer, local destinations, or to trigger various applications post-scan. I’m using the included OCR software and a Windows shell script to automatically move scanned docs to locations on my network based on keywords or account numbers found within the OCR’d content, really very slick and was pretty easy to do. Construction seems similar so if this remains as reliable as the previous generation this will be a no brainer purchase.Note, my previous version S1500 came with a full / permanent license for Adobe Acrobat X while the newer models offer that as an optional/subscription based add-in. I took the risk and got the version with no subscription and have no regrets, the included OCR software works fine and results in searchable PDFs..

needed to buy a scanner that could be independently operated by my aging parents. It needed to work correctly and flawlessly and require only pushing button. The task is the scanning of my father’s life’s work, carefully preserved in filing cabinets that take up too much space and cost too much to store. It will take months to do this. It means most of the work will need to be done independently by them. I researched scanners and watched reviews for months. I was pretty set on a Canon until I decided that the #1 scanner might be worth the extra coin. It was imperative that it be easy to use. In all fairness, I don’t have the Canon to compare it to. I was able to set this scanner up in person and practice with my parents before leaving them alone with it. I was able to easily set it up to scan to OCR and a Pdf document simultaneously (one of the project requirements) it scans both sides at the same time but omits any blank pages. My favorite feature is it can name the file based on the title on the first page. Again, for our project, this was exactly what was needed. Naming files and saving them in the proper location was a challenge that needed to be avoided. I set up a few profiles and removed the ones that were not needed. For me, the software was intuitive and easy to use and for my parents, largely unnecessary to interact with once I’d set things up properly. I downloaded the ABBEY OCR software and was delightes with how perfectly it worked. Notes in the margins were preserved as a graphic object in Microsoft Word. The scan captured and changed the font size. There were several passages of books that had been xeroxed so it involved two pages side by side. The scanner handled this like a pro and everything remained formatted correctly. The wireless and USB connection both worked well, once it’s set up its very plug and play. There were a couple of minor paper jams but they were also easy enough to clear. I am impressed by the warranty and live support, but we have not needed either yet. What surprised me most is my printer has a scanner at home and I never thought I needed anything else. I am now seriously considering getting one myself seeing how I could easily make all the paper in my house disappear. I can set up profiles for receipts, bills, reports, personal memorabilia and this scanner could send it to the folders of my choice, this is extenemely appealing to me. I have to add that the footprint of this scanner is minimal, not much bigger than a work boot when it’s folded up. I spent an extra $100 to get this model, but if it means my parents don’t have trouble using it, it is worth every single cent.