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ScanSnap S500 Operator's Guide i
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the ScanSnap S500 Color Image Scanner product.
ScanSnap S500 comes with a color image scanner and office applications. It is a complete Office
Solution designed to improve your productivity and to solve your office scanning problems. Scan-
Snap product has the following features.
■ Just pressing the Scanner button allows you to turn images on paper into PDFs!
You can turn the documents that clutter up your desktop into PDFs, and manage and
archive them on your computer. You can use the Adobe®
Acrobat® software packaged
with this scanner to display these PDF documents.
ScanSnap product can also automatically recognize the type of document, color or
black & white, so scanned image files can be made smaller when scanning documents
containing a mixture of color and black & white pages. You can also have the scanner
automatically remove blank pages in documents in order to reduce the size of files even
more.
■ Effortless scanning!
Double-sided color documents A4 or Letter in size can be scanned at a speed of about
18 sheets/minute (when Scan mode is set to Normal, Color mode is set to Auto, and
Compression rate is set to 3). (*1)
■ Small desktop footprint!
Smaller than a sheet of A4 or letter paper in size, ScanSnap scanner can be left on your
desk all the time.
■ Business cards easily filed!
Business cards can be easily filed and searched for using the OCR function by using the
"CardMinder
™
" software supplied with the scanner.
(*1) -Depending on the document, scanning speed may become slower in "B&W"
(Black&White) mode (due to process for converting data scanned in color to mono-
chrome data).
Example: Scanning color brochures in "B&W" mode
-When either of "Automatic size and skew detection", or "Automatic image rotation" is
enabled, scanning speed may become slower.
(*) ScanSnap S500 does not support TWAIN and ISIS standards.
This document describes how to handle ScanSnap S500 and basic operation methods. Before you
start using ScanSnap S500 be sure to thoroughly read this manual to ensure correct use.
ScanSnap S500 is referred to as ScanSnap hereafter in this document.