Customer Rating: 
Summary: Weep with joy, you are delivered from your pain
Comment: This is a purpose-built device that is outstanding at its purpose. It does exactly what it is supposed to do. And it works on Mac. It is small and energy efficient. It turns a mess of documents into a stack of tidy files and is *perfect* for light-duty archiving. (There are bigger ones for more diligent paper-pushers.)
But the real gem is the workflow. You stick paper in, push a button, it scans both sides of all the pages, puts everything in the right order, and saves it. You're done.
The only thing it won't do that I miss is scan grayscale. Your options are black and white or color. The options on the Mac tool are dumbed-down a little bit, e.g. "scan quality: normal, higher, highest" instead of showing the DPI.
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Summary: Hands down, the best desktop scanner I have ever used.
Comment: I had used Visioneer scanners for many years to try to maintain a paperless office. The Visioneer scanners were were okay, but slow and clunky. Then I switched to Mac, and could no longer use Visioneer products. I have been using an HP all-in-one for a while now, but it's just not designed for efficient scanning. After a long search at Apple stores, Fry's, etc., I came across the ScanSnap on Amazon. I must say, this is EXACTLY what I have been looking for over the past several months. It scans both sides in one pass, and is very fast on AC power. It sends your file straight to PDF (or jpeg) with no quirky complications. There are plenty of options after the scan if you choose to use them (send image to email, iPhoto, printer, and others), but I typically let the image go straight to a PDF file and catalogue them in Bento 2. The 300M will also operate on USB power, which I plan on using soon. Do note, however, that this is NOT a TWAIN scanner. You must rely on the Fujitsu drivers. Fortunately, the software is robust enough where this has not been a problem. In fact, some software like ReceiptWallet/DocumentWallet will let you scan straight into their program.
At long last, a scanner that fits on my desktop, does what it's supposed to do, and does it amazingly well. It definitely ranks as one of the top Mac or PC peripherals I have ever bought (and that goes back to first PCs of the early 1980s!).
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Portable Scanners for MAC
Comment: Pros: It works consistently-speed, duplex, color quality, appearance of scan
Cons: a little pricey, bulky for travel with a few stops, lacks a powerful system such as Adobe Acrobat
Overall: Even though the above checklist seems to have more cons; the consistency and speed really works and trumps the inconveniences
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Summary: A Snap to use
Comment: I had been using another more mobile scanner with limited results. The ScanSnap really works well. I'm also using Receipt Wallet to classify all my docs. The smart file options really works well. The only negative is the limited access with Mac due to it not being a twain scanner.
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Summary: 10x better compression
Comment: Best. Scanner. Ever. Not only its hardware being excellent, the software for Mac is also very neat.
I've been using an all-in-one printer and a flatbed scanner, but I should have noticed this product earlier: It's much easier to adjust to any document size, much faster, and the best thing is, the compression efficiency is super. The same document which was 1MB scanned with the Brother's all-in-one printer is now 100KB or so, with the same good enough quality to my eyes! And you can even configure the resolution and the compression quality intuitively. That makes a serious difference in use cases. GREAT PRODUCT. Go Fujitsu go!
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