Scansnap S510M Mac Application Was

This free Mac application was originally created by FUJITSU.

Updating select ScanSnap models listed above is a two part process.

Scansnap S510M Update Restores Features

The first update restores features associated with ScanSnap Manager and the second update restores features associated with FineReader for ScanSnap.

Checking it returns those settings to their default states, after which the entire checkbox disappears.

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For details, see Surprise Fujitsu Releases 64-Bit ScanSnap Manager for Older Scanners (27 July 2020), or just keep reading for a review of VueScan.

The luxury of being able to pursue a paperless office softened the burden of having to configure numerous technical parameters to make a single scan.

Interfaces like this one from Epsonand others even less friendlywere common.

These predominantly sheet feeder devices saved desk space and reduced the amount of paper swapping required.

But the real secret sauce of ScanSnap was the accompanying software that was centered around what you were trying to do rather than making you constantly fiddle with scanning parameters.

Finally, a developer was thinking like a customer instead of a scanner The combination of a simple user interface, intelligent defaults, seamless integration with external apps, and automation of the entire workflow created a user experience that was hard to beat.

Some months ago, Fujitsu sent users of older ScanSnap models email informing them that their ScanSnap software would not be updated to 64-bit and would therefore not run under macOS 10.15 Catalina.

While Fujitsu had developed a new, 64-bit scanning application, it would not support many of the older, wildly popular ScanSnap models, including the S1300 I use.

Or you could virtualize ScanSnap Manager in 10.14 Mojave (see Moving to Catalina: Keep Your 32-Bit Mac Apps Running with Parallels, 18 September 2019), keep an older Mac running Mojave or older just for scanning, or forgo upgrading to Catalina (which is fine for now, but a bad idea in the long term).

Fujitsus decision to stop supporting older scanners seems unethical, environmentally irresponsible, and frankly, unnecessary.

ExactCODEs ExactScan supports some ScanSnap models, including the S1500, but the popular S1300 is not yet among them.

The company plans to add support for the S1300 in the coming months and just made news by pulling out of the Mac App Store.

Since Fujitsus ScanSnap Manager software wasnt running, VueScan automatically took control of the scanner.

Zero setup was required, and VueScan instantly detected (and displayed) the make and model of my scanner.

Pressing the S1300s blue button automatically scanned an inserted sheet of paper and sent the scan to VueScan for post-processing.

For example, resetting the application to all its default values, I was able to make a simple, one-sided PDF that opened in the default viewer, Preview, and saved to my Pictures folder.

But as soon as I made the single change of saving as JPEG, VueScan started acting up by not opening the document in Preview.

And as such, VueScan may well rescue your aging ScanSnap from the trash heap.

Fujitsu grouped settings by function and laid things out logically and aesthetically, making for an interface thats largely self-explanatory.

Note that the screenshot below shows only one of six tabs, each of which has a similar number of options.

Those limitations have forced me to spend all my time in Professional mode.

The sheer number of settings would not have made the challenge insurmountable, but countless quirks compounded the effect.

It shows up unchecked when settings on that tab are not at the defaults.

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