He launched the app on the iPad. He selected a stack of family photos—old Polaroids he wanted to digitize for his daughter. He fed them into the iX500 in the other room.
(for its era; legacy compatibility 7/10 today) scansnap ix500 software
Tested on: Windows 10 (i5, 8GB RAM), macOS Monterey (Intel i5) He launched the app on the iPad
| Feature | ScanSnap iX500 (2013-2020) | Epson FastFoto FF-680W | Brother ADS-1700W | Fujitsu (Ricoh) ScanSnap iX1600 | |---------|----------------------------|------------------------|-------------------|----------------------| | One-button workflow | ✅ Excellent | ✅ Good | ✅ Basic | ✅ Excellent (newer) | | Software polish | 9/10 | 7/10 | 6/10 | 9.5/10 | | OCR accuracy (ABBYY) | 99.8% | 99.5% (Tesseract) | 98% (Nuance) | 99.9% (ABBYY newest) | | Cloud direct | Evernote/Dropbox | Google/OneDrive | Limited | All major (incl. Box, SharePoint) | | Mobile app control | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | Active support | ❌ Discontinued | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | (for its era; legacy compatibility 7/10 today) Tested