ScanSnap iX1300 Compact Wireless or USB Double-Sided Color Document, Photo & Receipt Scanner with Auto Document Feeder and Manual Feeder for Mac or PC, White

Works great with Chromebook and Chromebox
Love this little scanner. I moved my home PC from a windows machine to a Chrome Box a couple years ago. Love the decision, but I had to retire my previous photo scanner, as it didn’t have a Chrome Box interface. I’ve mostly only used the ScanSnap to scan photos, so I’ve only used it so far with the front feeder, not the auto document feeder, as not sure ADF will work with thicker photos. It’s fast. You put the photo at the front feeder, the scanner gives you a second to get the photo square at the feeder, then pulls it in, and out the back, then pulls it in from the back and spits it our the front, all within a few seconds. Very quick and easy to put that photo on the “done pile” and insert the next. It stores lots of photos, I’ve done up to 80 so far, and then you copy the batch of scanned photos to whatever directory you want on your Chromebox, and scan the next batch.Setup instructions were a bit lacking. There’s no “On Switch” on the scanner. If you open the ADF loader, the scanner seems to stay on, and the Chrome app can find it. If you don’t have that open, the “Scan” button turns the scanner on, but not for long if it doesn’t connect to the app. Once I figured to open the app, then quickly push the “Scan” button, I haven’t had any problems connecting. I’m running it over WiFI, not USB printer cord. Never had to use the USB interface during setup, but you do need a WiFi, so I believe this would work well with an Android phone. The App window does scale somewhat for my Chromebox, not a phone size window on my big monitor.

werkingsduur wordt steeds korter
I bought the first one in 2022.. After almost two years, in March 2024, it broke down. I quickly ordered a new one. The qualities of the second device, especially the software, were very disappointing. I bought my first Scansnap because of the quick succession of scanning documents. That is “no longer” due to the “automatic” scan function that apparently cannot be switched off. You now have to press OK after scanning each individual document, sometimes this can be done quickly via an Enter, but sometimes it only works via the mouse. With those unnecessary actions, the speed is gone. Another disadvantage is that if you want to scan receipts, the device chooses to scan only 1 side. This even goes so far that if a receipt is in the scanner the wrong way around, a white document is delivered. But beware, that’s not all: if you have made an [important] note on the back of a receipt, it will NOT be scanned – because it is a receipt. Yes, that means that you now have to check your equipment, the scanner and your laptop, on the work done to see if they have done their job together properly. Terrible. In my view, the computer checks me, my job is not to check the computer and the peripherals. Thanks Scansnap for the lost notes.But now it is the end of October 2024 and now the “new” device is showing the necessary quirks again. The device thinks that there is already a document in the manual feed, while that is not the case. After this thought, the device does nothing more. This one can also go on the waste mountain.But this is half a year after I bought this new one. I think that is going too far.In summary: this used to be a nice scanner but it is nothing anymore, well, it is a device with a lot of quirks and it eats up my time and attention.

This scanner is amazing, so small yet can scan multiple items into your laptop or phone in seconds.

Je l’utilise depuis 3 jours et je l’apprécie beaucoup. Très facile à utiliser. J’ai scanné des papiers, des reçus et des photos. On peut mettre jusqu’à environ 25 feuilles ou photos à la fois. Je n’ai eu qu’un seul bourrage de papier, mais il faut dire que le papier était très épais. J’ai scanné les feuilles une à la fois et je n’ai pas eu de problème. J’ai aussi essayé de mettre plusieurs photos à la fois et ça l’a très bien fonctionné. Je cherchais à scanner plusieurs photos rapidement et facilement, et pour cela, ça fonctionne très bien. Pour les photos d’archive ou celle qui demande un traitement particulier, je ne pense pas que ça soit le meilleur scanner pour ça.