Best Cop Scanner App

[Eilene Balque]

Mygf has done some stuff on our $100 Canon 4400F. It works fine for photos too, just check levels and sharpen a bit. For negatives cheap flatbeds are not that hot but it depends what kind of quality you need. Web sizes and small prints are ok, but even 8x10 is pushing it. (from 35mm).

Your scanner must have a CCD array rather than CCI. The new slim (space saving) scanners or those that are with a 4-in-1 printer are CCI. CCI array doesn't see beyond the flat of the glass. CCD is the more common and more versatile scanner.

I have two Fujitsu scanners - the original Evernote Edition and the Fujitsu ix500. I ended up throwing away my ix500 because after a firmware upgrade, it wasn't recognized by any computer I put it on! Its too bad because I had both scanners dialed in and I loved it. Very reliable.

I am now searching for a second scanner, since my Evernote edition is staying home. I need one for work. I am reading reviews on the new ix1500 but it seems like people don't like it compared to the ix500. I want a scanner that integrates with Evernote quickly where I scan and it goes immediately into my inbox with the push of one button. Apparently, the ix1500 requires a two button push (once to OK scan?). Anyways, please let me know if you have purchased a scanner recently to work with Evernote. Thanks!

Still with my ix500, and no plans to move on. Scanning only a few pages I do with my iPhone and the ScannerPro-app. It has the option to install workflows, which send the scan into a specified notebook, tagging it with a standard set of tags.

The ix500 is for the heavy lifting. If I would have to switch, it would probably be the ix1500. I have not tried it, but I like the option to switch scanning profiles right on the touch screen. I use several ones, depending on the scanning job (pdf, jpeg, low and high resolution), and have to move to the PC/Mac if I need to switch.

I'm thinking about buying a scanner specifically for use with Evernote. I have several hundred (possibly over a thousand) documents and receipts. I am currently using the Android version of Evernote, which is fine for two or three docs. I know the Fujitsu Scan Snap is discontinued. Evernote staff has not been helpful so far in giving me any ideas.

I assume the scanner will need to scan directly to PDF? I have a NEAT document scanner that works with my Windows 10 built in scanning software, but it does not scan directly to PDF. I can use the NEAT software to scan, but it scans to NEATs proprietary format. From there you can convert to PDF, but it's a S L O W process.

The ix(1)500 should do, and maybe rethink your budget issue. You could try to buy a used one (just be aware of scratches, paint or glue on the internal scanning windows, because it will make the scans useless), or account it against the time saved from using a less reliable, slower scanner.

The ScanSnap software still exists, from Fujitsu. The only product that was abandoned is the special edition Evernote scanner. It was practically an ix500 with a special software. If you get one, and it does not work with a newer OS, you can flash it with a standard ix500-firmware. It will work as every ix500, only the specific Evernote scanner features will be gone.

Hey everyone. I'm guessing this isn't the right place and I apologize! I'm new to this forum, and I have exhaustively searched for any thread related to my issue. It seems I can't just post my issue as a new topic (for good reason I'm sure.)

Here's what's up -- I use the Evernote branded Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500.

Every now and then -- if I upgrade my computer system OS, or change my computer setup somehow -- it will ask me to reconnect the scanner using a USB cable.

The thing is -- it seems to ONLY work with the very USB cable that came with the unit.

I'm sure I still have that somewhere, but right now when I'm in a hurry and just have to get some tax documents scanned, it's so frustrating that other cables which look identical (it's square-ish with a little bump on the top) but no matter how many identical cables I try, it WILL NOT connect unless I can find the original cable it came with.

Does anybody know a workaround, or if I can buy some kind of replacement cable online?

I do not know whether the setup works with an USB2-cable. I took a picture, the ix500-cable is the black one to the left, the USB2 from an old backup disk drive is the grey one to the right. The blue Inlay to the USB3-cable indicates it is USB3-compatible. So I think any USB3-cable of this type should work.

To get around this, it is necessary to update the scanners firmware. It will take the firmware of the standard ix500, of course loosing the special features of the EN model. And there is no way back once it was updated with the new firmware.

Oh, dear! I think you're right. That must be the cause.

I'm really, really disappointed to hear that I'll lose the special features of the Evernote model.

Can you tell me which features that would be? In short, I LOVE that I can scan things directly into the Evernote through the cloud, without having to be connected via USB, and I don't need to scan it to my local drive first, I can just scan it, and BAM it's in my Evernote.

Is THAT a feature I'd still have???

UPDATE: Disregard. Panic averted. I just googled it for myself and I think I can see the pros/cons pretty clearly. I'm gonna go ahead and upgrade the firmware. Thanks again!

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: So I found a Super Speed USB cable (like the one pictures above - the same type that came with the scanner). I connected it to my computer.

It looks like before I upgrade the firmware, the first thing I am asked to do is connect the scanner to the Mac via USB cable from within the ScanSnap Home application.

But this brings me back to my original problem: it WILL NOT connect. No matter what. Any ideas why? Or how I might work around this?

If you choose pdf, the document will have all pages you place in one scan job. Because the feeder takes appr. 50 pages, this will be the limit (unless you try to manually feed more pages while the scanner is working down the current feed).

I used to have a flatbed scanner with a feeder for multiple sheets, but it was still a hassle and I found myself using my phone all the time, because I could do it anywhere and not be tied to one room.

It performs well, allows the use of the 2x-camera of my iPhone 11 Pro (which avoids casting a shadow with your own phone), and allows for quick or in-depth optimisation of a scan taken. If for example there is plain b/w, but it had a shadow, you can simply switch to b/w image type, and the shadow will be gone. If this is not enough, you can adapt brightness and contrast manually for each page - this is useful when scanning photos.

What makes it exceptional with EN is the option to create your ownworkflows. You do the scanning (multiple pages, different stuff, whatever), can organize the pages on the phone, then save it locally. Now hit share, select the type of EN workflow the scan belongs to, BAM. It is send as a new note to EN, right to the correct notebook, complete with a preselection of tags.

If I scan a receipt that I will need for my tax declaration, it will for example be tagged with receipt, 2020, tax and send to my notebook receipts. For most standard scan jobs, there is zero rework in EN, and the notes go where they need to go. Very time saving.

With ScannerPro I can scan continuously, and do the editing when I am done with scanning. I have all pages in a thumbnail view, can do group editing (like rotating a selection of several pages in one go) or individual. I prefer this because it is better for my scanning process.

Well, the hardware scanner is good if you want to scan more than a few pages. Then it really helps, with sheet feeder and a blinding fast, accurate OCR. I converted several 500-Page-binders into pdfs, and could hardly keep up with managing the paper flow into and from the ix500 scanner connected to my Mac.

Scanner Pro just got improved with iOS 14: Among other features, they now have these mini-widgets that allow to pick a scan job right from the widget, controlled by a workflow. Very nice new feature !

This summer I bought the Raven Original document scanner that provides sheetfed scans, OCR, and drops straight into Evernote with no computer in the middle. This has forever changed how I think of scanners, making all of my previous sheetfed scanners feel like artifacts from a bygone era. I have scanned thousands of pages this summer with it.

I'm using a canon P-150. Evernote were promoting this two years ago so I brought it on the strength of that. It's tiny, so very portable and works really well. It also scans on both sides and I can choose to scan direct to evernote, to file or to email very easily.

1) It is as good as TurboScan in producing a readable B&W document from a color document with some text on colored background. Most other apps struggle to get readable B&W text in these areas. It's almost as fast as TS in automatically capturing multiple pages and defining crop areas. Unlike TurboScan, though, it has OCR.

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