Step Action; 1: Download and install the Fujitsu ScanSnap Manager software.: 2: Right-click on the ScanSnap Manager icon in the taskbar (on Windows) or in the dock (on Mac). 3: Select Settings or Scan Button Settings.: 4: Uncheck the 'Use Quick Menu' box. Download for other OSes Click here to download ScanSnap Home. ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap can be installed with ScanSnap Online Update after ScanSnap Home is installed. Jul 27, 2020. ScanSnap macOS Catalina Software Want to keep using your ScanSnap Scanner on macOS Catalina? VueScan is here to help VueScan Scanner Software includes built in drivers for Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners including the S1500, S1500M, iX500, and many more so you can keep using the scanner you already have on macOS Catalina, Windows 10, and Linux. Jul 06, 2020.
Scansnap Home Review
The quite old, but still perfectly working ADF scanner ScanSnap S300 is not supported anymore by Fujitsu. With MacOS Mojave the scanner worked very well using the ScanSnap S1300i driver. But not so with Catalina – the new ScanSnap Home software checks the connected Device IDs.
Only solution: Fujitsu wants me to buy a new Scanner although the current one is still working fine (hardware wise)…
I could not find a simple solution. Yes, there are some solutions live VueScan or ExactScan, but for me they feel too expensive.
In the end I’m using now my existing Parallels Windows 10 virtual machine to scan. On that platform the ScanSnap Manager Software is still supported – also in a 64bit version (why not on Mac Fujitsu?). You can use the newer Version from the S1500 (Download)!
Finally I am able to scan again. Without spending valuable resources into a new scanner (just because of a missing switch in a software).
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M, macOS 10.15 Catalina & SANE
Scansnap Home Vs Scansnap Manager
Fujitsu abandoned support for ScanSnap S1500M with MacOS 10.15 Catalina, but open Source SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) allows it work on MacOS and Linux.
I’m finally taking the plunge, and slowly moving my 3 macs from 10.14 to 10.15. One issue was the ScanSnap S1500M. I search hi and low, read reviews and software support and bought the ScanSnap S1500M used on Amazon of $99 in January 2019. Unfortunately, I didn’t realized Fujitsu would be so lame as to end support. Yes, VueScan and ExactScan both support this scanner, and work well, but this is well over $100 of software for a $99 scanner.
I’m finally taking the plunge, and slowly moving my 3 macs from 10.14 to 10.15. One issue was the ScanSnap S1500M. I search hi and low, read reviews and software support and bought the ScanSnap S1500M used on Amazon of $99 in January 2019. Unfortunately, I didn’t realized Fujitsu would be so lame as to end support. Yes VueScan and ExactScan both support this scanner, and work well.
However, it would be well over $100 to buy the software. At that point, I might as well buy a different document scanner. I’ve been eying the Avision AW210 Color Simplex or Avision AD230 Color Duplex. The price is right, but know nothing of this brand. For $130 vs $100 on software, I think I could deal with the Simplex (maybe).
But if VueScan and ExactScan have gotten this non-TWAIN scanner to work … Open Source has to.. And yes, SANE has done so. And I have gotten to work with both Ubuntu 19 (on a 10.14 “desktop” Mac in VirtualBox) and on my 10.15 old MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). And both work well, at least for the functional part. The lacking piece is the FrontEnd – the GUI – the Graphical User Interface – that would actually make it useful for macOS users. I am super impressed with Paperwork but currently doesn’t work on macOS. (However, this whole projects is python + GTK … so it just the matter of time before it’s working on the mac. And … well, we need to get into the FreeBSD ports collection as well.)
Not going to go over the full Liunx and Paperwork side, but quickly, this is how to get it up and running on macOS 10.15 – with command line usage and no OCR support. However, generally the linux side is the same, just use your distro’s package manager.
First, if you don’t have homebrew go get it now. Of course make sure your scanner is connected
Next, a few simple command lines:
And that’s it. sane-fine-scanner (might need to be re-run with sudo?) will return a lot and possible some pipe errors … look in the text for something like “found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5, product=0x11a2) at libusb:002:004”. The last command, with the -A, will give you all the Fujitsu backend driver specific options. For a multiple page, full-duplex scan , simply insert document(s) and run :
You can message around with options, but this will output will be in current directory … “out1.jpg”, and “out2.jpg”. This is not a user friendly front end, and will overwrite without prompting.
Some interesting notes/scripts I stumble over NormanTUD/AutoFeedscanOCR – could throw Tesseract in the mix and get OCR as well, all from the command line. It may be possible to also use “saned” to work on the button push.
Paperwork is really cool. But hard to install for an average user (a techie, ops, eng/developer – probably can get it done) … but it is really awkward for the multiple page scans in version 1.3. Author has notes that version 2.0/2.1 will have a revamped interface. Took me a while to figure out, but use the drop down menu next to the “scan” button, and select “scan from feeder” …then you had to manually enter the number of pages to “process”. The backend likely auto detects this, but you have to tell the front end (paperwork) how many scans to process.
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