When you do that, you feed the paper in the front and it turns it up and flips it back to you. If space is at a premium or if you are doing a lot of scanning (more on that in a minute), you can flip the top up. This is great if you are scanning photos, business cards, post cards, plastic cards (!), and extra-delicate paper. You put the paper in the front, and it comes straight out the back. If you leave the top of the scanner closed, paper will be fed straight through like most portable scanners. The S1100 solves this in a pretty clever way. One of the knocks against other ScanSnaps is that paper can’t go through “flat”, but needs to go through the scanner’s “L-turn” (I have no idea what the technical term is there). In fact, as you can see, it doesn’t even have a port for an AC adaptor: No AC adaptor, no dual-USB cord like the S1300, just one cord. The ScanSnap gets all of its power from one USB cord. Weight wise, it is 12.3 ounces.įor people who are familiar with other ScanSnaps, here it is in comparison to the ScanSnap S1300: That’s smaller than other similar scanners in its class. Once I had it unpacked, the S1100 is 10.74 x 1.87 x 1.33 inches. My first thought was “is assembly required?”. I was pretty surprised how tiny the box was. I had my first indication of this when I received the box. Ultra-portable is a pretty good description. I was sent a review unit of the S1100 so I thought I’d break it down for the DocumentSnap readers. Fujitsu calls it an “ultra-portable” scanner and they are clearly targeting people who are on-the-go as well as people for whom desk (or cafe table) space is at a premium. The S1100 is a “hybrid” scanner in that it works with both the Mac and PC. Until now their most portable scanner has been the ScanSnap S1300, which while smaller than its desktop cousins the S1500 and S1500M, isn’t something you are just going to throw in your bag as you are heading out the door. Fujitsu has been making the ScanSnap line of document scanners for quite some time, and they’ve finally made a truly portable version: the ScanSnap S1100.

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