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Hands On With The ScanSnap iX500 At Macworld
Mar 11, 2025
Erfon takes a look at the ScanSnap iX500, an iOS compatible document scanner, at Macworld 2013.
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hey everyone a from Elijah Gadget Hunter
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here at macworld 2013 cult amac.com and
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I'm here with Michael we're going be
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talking about the Fujitsu scans snap 500
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a really neat a Really Neat scanner that
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lets you just toss a bunch of documents
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into it business cards fulls siiz paper
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all these different Siz things and then
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it scans all of them and digitize them
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for you right helps you declutter that
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desk that you have all that stuff piled
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up on that's exactly it you know we'
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bought got too much clutter in our lives
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and we don't want to have to deal with
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this clutter all the time so this is a
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great way to get all that paperwork get
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it digitized into either PDF or jbig
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files and get it into our electronic
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life so if you have a stack full of
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business cards when you come home from
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macell you toss them all in it digitizes
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them and then you can actually organize
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them into your contact book right that's
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exactly right card minder software is
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included with the the scan snap product
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it automatically extracts the
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information off the cards puts it into
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editable fields and you can push it off
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to address book or or uh you know
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Salesforce or whatever you need to send
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it to now the this SC snap is one of The
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Cadillacs of the scanners out there and
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this is your new model why don't you to
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tell us a little bit about what's
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different with this model as opposed to
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the other generation sure well what what
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people know scans have to be is easy to
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use you put the documents in you push
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the button it automatically scans the
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documents rotates them removes blank
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pages props and DCS all that
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automatically does that to your Mac
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today but we have a new feature called
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pess scanning which basically allows you
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to scan to your mobile device your
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iPhones or your iPads doing it
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wirelessly right from the device so
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there's a new uh app application called
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scan snap connect it's on iTunes it's
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for free and it's got all the
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intelligent image collection built into
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it you literally launch it press the
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scan button and it scans the documents
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right into your mobile device and then
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from there you can disposition it out to
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Evernote Dropbox whatever you've got led
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up on your on your mobile device now you
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guys told we we were talking earlier and
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you told me this had some magic sauce
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built in as far as pulling documents in
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because you can toss in all these
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different Siz documents as I mentioned
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and it pulls all those through without
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jamming which is kind of a a feature
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that your scanner has a lot of them
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don't have correct that's right you're
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hit on a very key attribute so the scans
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snap is500 has what we call separation
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roller technology it's actually a geard
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driven roller inside of it that controls
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all of the documents going through
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making sure that only one sheet goes
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through at a time we've all heard about
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double feeds and jams and this gets in
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the way of people being productive this
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scanner has dedicated technology to make
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sure only one sheet goes through at a
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time and that's really important because
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this scanner is 25 pages per minute
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that's 50 images per minute double sided
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so that's a very fast scanner you need a
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reliable separation technology to make
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sure just one shot sheet goes through it
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a Time
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y I love your pitch on this this is
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great so this is available now right and
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how much is it $4.95 available today and
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you guys released this at CES just a few
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weeks ago right that's correct January
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7th available available everywhere right
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everywhere PC Mall PC Amazon wherever
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you want to go literally everywhere
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great well thanks so much I'm here from
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Elijah Gadget Hunter here at Mac World
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2013 I'll see you guys soon
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