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[Olympia Brackin]

Ijust installed a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 onto my computer with Windows 10 and now our current version of Adobe Acrobat X Pro cannot recognize the new scanner. It can still find the old scanner which is on the Brother multi-function printer which I need it to print to that but I need it to do a custom scan using the new Fujitsu scansnap ix500 scanner. The scanner is working with everything else and I can scan into PDF's but when I open an existing PDF to insert more pages by doing a custom scan it doesn't show my new scanner.

The ScanScap scanners do very smart things, and at least some of them don't come with any drivers for other people's software - not even bundled copies of Acrobat. You need to scan with the supplied software, to make a PDF. You can then open the PDF in Acrobat Pro. You can insert pages from a PDF instead of from the scanner.

You can set-up the iX500 in about 30 minutes. Twenty-eight of those minutes will be spent installing the software. The installers do seem oddly dependent on having Internet Explorer as your default browser. the ABBY software installer opened up a Firefox window. When I clicked on the setup.exe it downloaded it to my desktop! I was able to open the CD and drill down to the setup.exe file to install it.

What I found was that when left alone the ScanSnap could zip through pages like no-ones business. It was fantastic. But the quality of the OCR was not only not as good as Acrobat, the resultant pages were about 4-6 times as large (storage wise).

So, what I'd do is to scan away all day and then when I finished I'd load up Acrobat and tell it to OCR the folder of pages and let it rip. One of the VERY ANNOYING things about Acrobat is that when it's processing OCR, it will interrupt whatever you are doing and Acrobat will pop in front of whatever you are doing. Soooo, this is a process that is better to be done when you go out to lunch, take phone calls, whatever. But the result will be small sized documents with good OCR and the speed of the SnapScan. A good deal all around.

Is there a reason why my Adobe acrobat X (which came with the Fujitsu S1500 scanner) did not recognize the scanner? When I select "Create" on a PDF document and then select "PDF from the Scanner" it does not recognize that the scanner is connected. I got an error message saying that no scanner was connected or recognized. I even entered the Fujitsu software settings and activated Adobe Acrobat in the Standard settings, but that also didn't work. I did not find that a very big limitation because I can always make a pdf from any document that I scan and then open it with Acrobat. However, if I have used acrobatics and edited pdf, I cannot scan another pdf to attach directly from the scanner.

Yes, it doesn't recognise the scanner because Fujitsu deliberately made it that way (it doesn't work with any app except their own scanning stuff). They say that their scanning software (which is pretty good, I have to say) is better than anything that scanning with another app can do.

Let me add to what Test Screen Name said. Several years ago I was confronted with thousands of pages to scan I my photograph scanner was all I had. A friend lent me his FujiScan which worked WONDERFULLY.

So, what I did was to scan with the FujiScan into a folder and at a convenient time I'd point Acrobat to that folder to OCR the contents of the folder. This is not a fast process but you do end up with significantly better OCR results and significantly smaller files. So, the best of both worlds. The one negative from Acrobat here is that (1) it's not a fast process and (2) Acrobat tends to hog the computer after each page has been processed. So if you are looking at the web or your email or trying to write a letter, after every page is processed, Acrobat will popup as the frontmost application and say (to the affect) "OK, that page is done!"

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