Fujitsu S300 Scanner Review

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Fujitsu recently came up with the innovative ScanSnap S300 portable scanner. TFOT tested the mini-scanner extensively to see if its slim design and duplex capability can actually make this tiny automatic document feeder the scanner of choice for the professional road warrior.

We received the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 portable scanner in early 2008. The S300 is one of several portable scanning units currently available on the market, made to increase the productivity of the road warrior while still maintaining high-level scanning for office applications.

Hardware and Design

The ScanSnap S300 is a very friendly, simple device in terms of is construction. The unit has only one button, which starts the scan going directly into the computer. At 3.08 pounds (1.4 kilograms), the S300 might not be the lightest, or smallest, device of its type, but it’s portable enough so that most people can carry it along with their laptops if they need to; and for its size, it’s defiantly the smallest automatic document feeder (ADF) with duplex capability in the world.

The S300 turns on when you open its cover, which can be extended to support longer (A4/letter) pages. Sadly, Fujitsu neglected to add a retractable tray to collect pages after they have been scanned, but putting the scanner in the middle of a table solves this, and we easily improvised cardboard to do the trick.