Scansnap S1300 – Excellent Choice
Take document scanning to a whole new level with the ScanSnap S1300 mobile scanning solution. Whether you’re at home digitizing receipts, bank statements or term papers, or at the office capturing mission critical documents for a business trip, ScanSnap takes scanning beyond the desktop and into your world.
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 is a small, 600-dpi portable scanner that handles up to ten pages in its automatic document feeder, performs double-sided scanning, and provides good-looking images from a variety of documents. The ScanSnap S1300 is one of the few portable scanners available that offer the productivity advantage of a built-in ADF that’s designed to travel along with the scanner itself. As such, the ScanSnap S1300 is an very good choice if you need a home or office document scanner that’s also mobile.
This compact scanner weighs only 3.08 pounds and measures 11.18 by 3.9 by 3.03 inches (width by depth by height), or roughly the size of a small Duraflame fire log. Outfitted with a single start button that launches easy-to-use scanner software, the ScanSnap S1300 can run on either USB power or a wall outlet. Its cover lid also serves as a paper-chute extension for holding a stack of pages, and it easily folds up when not in use. A power cord and power supply, a USB cable, and a USB power cord are all provided; you’ll need your own carrying bag for toting the scanner and cables on the road, however.
The Fujitsu S1300 earned a Very Good rating for its overall image quality (using its default settings). It generally reproduced accurate color, monochrome, and grayscale documents with clear text and fine details in both shadows and highlights. Although some scans were slightly lighter in overall appearance than the originals, it was a very subtle distinction that didn’t really detract much from an overall good impression.
