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Decided it was time to eliminate as much paper in my home office as possible. Once I set this scanner up on my desk, I was able to feed in old bills, statements, warranties, user manuals, etc. Took three big bags to get rid of all the paper I shredded! Now a new document comes in, I scan it (takes only seconds), electronically file it and shred the paper. It comes bundled with Adobe Acrobat so you can make notations on the pdf's after scanning.

Scans clear, fast and quiet

If you're looking to scan a medium to high quantity of documents, for personal or home/small business use, this machine will do exactly what you need it to do. It comes with Adobe Acrobat Standard Edition (about $250 retail). I opted to have the included scanning software do the OCR on the scanned files, which yields searchable PDF files. If you set the scanning quality to something better than "fastest", if will still scan faster than you would expect, the file is a higher quality PDF, and the OCR recognizes more. I have it hooked up to the USB port of an Intel dual core E2160 processor at 2.6 Ghz, and it can complete the scanning AND OCR on 20 pages in about 140 seconds. If you turn the OCR off, the files are saved as fast as the machine can scan them through. The machine has a tiny footprint on my desk, and it really is as easy as pushing a button. At this point, if this thing died, I would just go buy another.

I like the speed and the ease using the feeder. I like the choice of programs for pictures or pdf files. It is light weight and can get very compact on my desktop where real estate is hard to come by.