Included items 1 USB cable (2.0),1 ScanSnap CarrierSheet,1 Safety Precautions,1 AC adapter,1 Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional DVD-ROM,1 Set-up DVD-ROM ,1 AC cable and 1 Getting Started

User Reviews about Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Macintosh

So many computer-related items have great promise before you buy them, but then turn out to be flaky or lack abilities you think they should have. Not so with the ScanSnap S1500; it's very solid, and performs really great!

It really does reorient the pages very reliably. Upside down, portrait vs. landscape, all mixed in a stack--it turns them all upside right in the output. It has failed to do this only a couple of times in the stacks and stacks and stacks of paper I have fed through it.

The feeding is fast and reliable. As some other reviewers have pointed out, you need to load it gently into the feeder; if pushed in too hard, it sometimes will feed more than one page at a time (which it always detects, and recovers from gracefully). I have had (infrequent) occasions where, with a stack of heavyweight paper, I had to lightly hold the stack on the input as it fed in to allow the scanner to grab the pages one at a time. Overall, though, it is fast and feeds very well.

Image quality is good. Its quality is good for archiving documents (which is what I use it for). I haven't tried it for photos or anything like that.

It folds up into a nice small package, and has a permanent place on my desk. I love to use this thing!

I purchased the Mac version in anticipation of buying an Apple; I was using a Windows XP machine at the time. The included Windows drivers and basic software on the CD worked well on XP, although, of course, Acrobat did not (Mac only, as expected). I did eventually get a Macbook (running Snow Leopard), in June of 2010--the software on the ScanSnap CD didn't quite work, but there was an update available that made it work well on Snow Leopard (Fujitsu said when I purchased the unit that Snow Leopard support would be available as an update, so this was no surprise).

Overall a great product! I'm still very happy with it after almost a year! -- Works like it should!

I use this scanner to archive EVERYTHING! I drop all of my receipts, invoices, contracts, leases, business cards, EVERYTHING into it and it handles it like a champ!

I use the scanner with a Macbook Pro over the USB connection. I scan into Evernote [...] which is also very awesome. This one is a no brainer...buy it! If you have questions, feel free to email me, tweet me, call me. -- Fast, Easy, Reliable, Quiet, Amazing!

I love this thing.
Every once in a while it will jam up for no reason, but if I re-feed it is fine.
For the most part it is great. I'm an my way to a paper-less life! -- Great scanner.

I've had no problem installing and using this scanner, and I am using it on an iMac, OS 10.5.8. It has been great, no negatives. There are some items that are challenging to feed, like old receipts and envelopes, just use the feed carrier. Thank you Fujitsu, Amazon, and Amazon reviewers for helping me make a solid purchase that is 100% Mac compatible. -- Great scanner

I concur with all the positive comments I've read.

The scanner comes with a "scanner sheet," a translucent plastic folder that can hold folded, small, delicate, or irregularly shaped originals (not too thick) and take them safely through the scanner. I didn't know about this when I bought the scanner, but I'm glad it's here. Much of my old paper is 1970's-era photocopies on soft chalky paper that I don't want gumming up the scanner. Loading two sheets back-to-back in the scanner sheet folder gets them through just fine. I do the same with papers written in soft pencil.

One concern - after a few hundred scans, my scanner sheet has scratches along its entire length. These become visible against dark-colored originals. I don't think it's from overloading - I've been pretty careful about not overloading the folder with too-thick material (and besides, the scratches are quite uniform and symmetrical, which I wouldn't expect from an over-thick original). Everything else seems fine, however, so I suppose I will buy some more scanner sheets.

For reasonably flat originals on clean paper, you can just load your stack in the feeder, push the button and let 'er rip. But if you have more specific needs, time is well spent exploring the options in the software. For example, you can specify whether each new load of originals is supposed to create a file by itself, or whether the scanner should wait for you to add more sheets to the same file. Note also that back-to-back originals can be output either as a single image with the two faces side-by-side (as you might want if you folded a large original) or as separate pages.

Great product. I wish I'd bought it sooner. -- Sheet carrier and software settings add options