The Workforce Pro GT-S50 Sheetfed Scanner offers a daily duty cycle of up to 1200 sheets, plus a 75-page feeder, it’s ready to tackle any obstacle in busy office situations. Scan business cards to rigid ID cards and documents up to 8.5x36 inches.

User Reviews about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Imaging Scanner

I've owned several standalone scanners and a couple of all-in-one HP scanners. This was my first Epson scanner and it's the best scanner I've owned. The automatic document feeder has yet to fail - it's never skipped a page. It's not silent by any means, but it's also the quietest scanner I've had. It doesn't take up much space and looks good on my desk.

There are some excellent reviews on amazon's site and I don't think I can improve on them. I highly recommend this scanner.

I purchased the scanner through amazon's Beach Camera affiliate. Their service was excellent. -- Best Scanner I've Ever Purchased

1. I think whether one likes this product vs not, is going to be whether one truly understands the primary purpose of this scanner--> ie as stated via epson, this is a DOCUMENT scanner. Thus, if you want to convert your file cabinet full of paper documents into PDF form--> this is a truly awesome piece of technology. Yes, any cheap flatbed scanner can create the same PDF document, but in most cases, you'll have to manually do one sheet at a time, flip the pages over etc... etc.. ie a huge waste of time and it increases the chances of making a mistake etc... With this scanner, you can put in a pile of papers (I forgot what the limit is, but I would recommend putting in a sensible amount, like 20 or so), you can designate whether the scan should be one sided or double sided--> click the button and it'll do the rest. The time savings is just staggering.

2. By the way, if you're really going to do this correctly (ie in terms of creating PDF files), do yourself a favor and purchase the full version Adobe Acrobat Pro. Why? You'll be able to modify your subsequent PDF documents, you won't have to use the epson software--> just do everything through acrobat pro (actually, you will / can still make modifications through the epson software, but it just seems more streamlined to make the PDFs through acrobat pro).

3. Note: remember the concept of using this scanner for it's true purpose. If you want to use this to scan photos etc... Obviously via the various reviews it can be done, but for various reasons (ie why risk the chance of having a valuable photo accidently caught in the roll mechanism etc...), just utilize a flatbed scanner; the higher the quality of the scan desired, purchase the appropriate scanner. If you have the negative of a photo--> please use a dedicated film scanner. I'm getting off topic, but the bottomline is that no one single scanner will do everything. For document scanning, this is the best. Highly recommended. -- Excellent for it's intended use

Upon receipt this scanner was promptly put to work scanning approximately 22,000 pages of hardcopy projects files. The scan speed exceeded our paper handling speed (removing staples, fixing tears, etc.) Was very pleased with throughput. There were very few jams and most were caused by missed staples or thermal printing paper. Both the scanner and software handled varied sizes and types of papers in a single scan job and overall scan quality was good. Software could be improved by inclusion of optical character recognition at scan time. -- Pleased as punch

I bought the Epson GT-S50 because my Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 developed a problem, was out of warranty, and would have been ridiculously expensive to repair. The ScanSnap S510 was discontinued and has been replaced by the S1500 which I'm not certain is an improvement over the S510, so I purchased the Epson GT-S50.

I am very disappointed with the performance of the Epson scanner - at least in comparison to the Fujitsu scanner. The scanner itself seems to function very well from a hardware standpoint - no misfeeds, etc., but the document processing speed is horrible. I used the Epson Scan software to scan a 300-page, standard-size document. I told it to scan duplex, auto, 300 dpi, no OCR detection, no conversion, no enhancement - just a plain, simple scan. The scanner has a 75-page feeder limit, so I scanned 4 individual batches of pages. It took just over an hour to scan the entire book. The scanner was frequently stopped because it was waiting for the software, and when all the pages from each batch were finally scanned, it still took another 5 minutes to finish processing that batch.

There are those who might say that is pretty fast compared to other scanners, but it is insanely slow compared to the Fujitsu. I have scanned many 500-page documents with the Fujitsu in about 20 minutes each. I checked all the settings, read the entire manual, looked online in the forums, and I do not have any settings wrong. Apparently, that's how it works.

I also tried scanning directly into Paperport using the Twain driver. Again, the scanner functioned very well from a hardware standpoint, but it was very, very slow. I was scanning receipts (one by one) as I have done thousands of times with the Fujitsu. Every time I inserted a new receipt to be scanned, it took 25 seconds to initiate the scan. The scan, of course, was extremely fast and was saved in Paperport, etc.. But 25 seconds to initiate every receipt is ridiculous!

I spent almost 8 hours trying to get this scanner/software to operate efficiently, and I've come to the conclusion that this is the nature of the beast. I am returning it tomorrow and looking for a used or refurbished ScanSnap S510. -- High hopes for GT-S50 not realized