Fujitsu S300 scanner
I've been happily using photo scanners for almost two decades, but I have never found these scanners to be very useful for digitising business documents. The scanning quality of the documents is usually inconsistent, and the optical character recognition (OCR) software typically mangles enough characters that it is faster to have a clerical assistant re-type the document. Fujitsu has changed that with a product line that brings document scanning to the desktop with one killer feature: it actually works.
At CES, Fujitsu announced its S1500 scanner, which replaces the top-of-line S510 desktop document scanner. However, Fujitsu also demoed its ScanSnap S300 Scanner, which is a step below the S1500, but still impressive. This slimline scanner can handle a stack of documents at time; it has two cameras, so it scans front and back simultaneously; it automatically reads text and flips scans to portrait or landscape mode; and it can quickly turn your whole stack of documents into a multipage PDF, with document-level encryption and password protection, if needed.
It is also the most accurate business card scanner we have ever seen, plus it imports easily to Microsoft Outlook. We have seen it perfectly reproduce the formatting of documents imported into Microsoft Word. The S300 costs about £225.
