Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner 
Colour Image Scanner

ScanSnap defines the Fujitsu way that an efficient document scanner for the office professional's personal everyday use should look like. The idea is simple: just enable easy scanning of typical office documents at any time, without the burden of additional work. ScanSnap uses a specially developed method of driving the scanning device. Actually, the "normal“ scanning process is totally reversed.

Using ScanSnap you just insert a stack of paper and press a button to initiate the scan process. This will automatically create and store a PDF file and hand it over to Adobe Acrobat. Using the same method, you can just as easily create fully searchable PDF files, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or even PowerPoint slides. Since all this is automatically achieved within just seconds to a visibly high quality standard, any user will utilise this scanner every single day when office documents need to be transformed into an electronic format. Instantly, even piles of documents on top of office desks begin to vanish…

ScanSnap Manager and Adobe Acrobat Standard
ScanSnap is controlled by ScanSnap Manager. This genuine Fujitsu driver package eliminates traditional TWAIN or ISIS driver techniques, thus enabling access to the scanner without time consuming and complex settings with every scan. At the same time the ScanSnap Manager package allows for more sophisticated operations if desired.

The user can fully adapt the ScanSnap functionality to his 
preferences and needs. Some of the advanced settings that can individually be defined within ScanSnap Manager are:

• Different scanning profiles can be pre-defined (target application, simplex/duplex, colour or b/w, image quality, target directory). They are stored for easy two-click access.
• The user can opt to have a dialog box pop up after scanning, where he can assign a specific file name and destination folder to the PDF file.
• Automatically or case-by-case the PDF file created by ScanSnap can be assigned a password that locks out anybody unauthorised trying to access the file.

Scanning speed and resolution
ScanSnap scans documents with speeds of up to 18 pages per minute at 150 dpi. The user can choose higher resolution of up to 600 optical dpi, making ScanSnap the PDF scanner of choice when on top of pure document scanning, non-professional colour graphic scanning is requested.

Automatic colour detection
ScanSnap recognizes whether a paper document is coloured or monochrome. It creates and stores the PDF file accordingly in the related colour format. This helps minimise the storage capacity, which can then be further reduced by choosing automatic file compression to be applied.

Scanning irregular sized document formats
In addition to standard portrait formats (A6 to A4), the user of ScanSnap can define “irregular” formats that thereafter are automatically recognized (width min. 50,8 mm, max. 216 mm; length min. 50,8 mm, max. 360 mm). Even formats up to the size of A3 can be scanned with ScanSnap when folded and inserted into the ScanSnap carrier sheet. After scanning both sides of the carrier sheet, ScanSnap automatically rebuilds the original format (image stitching).

Scan piles of paper in one batch
The automatic document feeder holds up to 50 sheets of paper (80g/m2) and feeds them one by one in a continuous process. You can choose to have ScanSnap store all pages in one single file or alternatively create multiple files consisting of one single page each.

Scan front and back in one single pass
ScanSnap is capable of capturing both sides of a document at the same time the paper passes the duplex scanning zone. For this purpose ScanSnap is equipped with two separate CCD cameras.

Automatic blank page detection
Since ScanSnap automatically recognises colour from black and white pages and eliminates blank pages, each scanning job progresses smoothly, even when scanning combinations of one and two-sided documents. Of course the option of automatic blank page deletion can be disabled to keep multi-page documents in their original order.

Automatic page rotation
On pages containing text elements, ScanSnap recognises the document orientation and rotates individual pages automatically to be displayed correctly. This even works with mixed document batches containing both portrait and landscape formats.

Auto-deskew
Depending on their size, documents inserted at an angle or documents that are skewed (often the case with copies) are automatically re-aligned. This often improves the image quality over that of the original document.