Fujistu ScanSnap comes to the Mac

Remember when the Mac was king of the graphics hill? OK, maybe where you live, it still is. But I remember back when SCSI was all the rage you had your pick of the scanner and printer litter. Nowadays it seems the field has narrowed a bit. For smaller business there just aren't the choices you used to have. I remember buying a Microtek scanner with character recognition software, faxing, and Photoshop LE for a few hundred bucks. Those were the days.

Well those days may be here again with Fujitsu's help. They recently announced their first ever scanner compatible with the Mac. What's more, the ScanSnap "solution" will scan docs into PDF's, and somehow they'll be searchable with Spotlight. In all the docs I read on the product no where did I see OCR mentioned explicitly, so no guarantees here. It seems like that's where they're talking about, but it could also be some marketing side talk... If anyone wants to translate, here's the product page.

What's really exciting to me (and hopefully other small biz owners), is that this is under $500, but for that wad of dough you get the full version of Acrobat 7, a 50-page document feeder, it's full-color and duplex, and that "magic" software... Incredibly reasonable when you compare the alternatives (Ricoh, Lanier, etc.). Thanks for the love Fujitsu.

[thanks Jeff]