Features:

  • Portable scanning you can take with you anywhere. Wirelessly scan your documents to your laptop, smartphone, or tablet devices
  • Able to scan a full colored page in just 5.2 seconds
  • Rechargeable battery allows you to scan up to 260 documents on a full charge
  • Optical resolution of up to 600 dpi.
  • One button simplicity with easy to use software. Scan directly to your desktop or cloud drive (integrated with Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more) - no driver needed!
Fujitsu is the Gold Standard for Business Scanners

I've had this unit for about a year now and it's still going strong. First off, I have several of the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 desktop scanners (and I had some of the model before that) and I consider those to be the "Gold Standard" of desktop medium-heavy duty scanners. They are affordable and just work. The little brother of the line, the iX100 continues the tradition. The important killer feature is that via WiFi you can scan and automagically upload to your cloud storage from wherever you are. You will need to wire it up to a computer initially to set it up. By the way, it is not immediately obvious, but it will automatically jump on multiple Wifi signals, so you can set it up to automatically link up with your office, your home, your cell phone hotspot, etc as you change locations. I'm not sure what the limit is, but its at least four different WiFi signals. Also remember it is portable so it is not a speed demon, although it is reasonably fast; you have to feed the sheets individually, and it is simplex (single-sided) scanning only. It can be set up to await the next sheet so you can do a multipage or two-sided document. It has a built-in battery which recharges relatively quickly via a standard "cell phone style" USB cable so you can recharge it in the same way as an Android cell phone. In use you can either hard wire it to your computer, or else you just flip open the cover, and after a few moments it will find the available WiFi signal, you can start scanning direct to your preferred cloud storage provider, and thereby have the document available for further processing in near real time by whomever has access to your cloud storage wherever they may be. While the unit is not fragile, it is a bit delicate so I would definitely recommend you get the little carrying case, At the time I bought it, they didn't have any third-party cases available, but apparently now they do. The OEM case works just fine, and the unit fits like a glove, but I wish there was a little storage pouch to keep the little 6-inch cable I use with it when I hook the unit up to my laptop directly. I definitely recommend this small scanner for its intended use case, and I will likely purchase additional units for staff members as the need arises.

It is so easy to operate (even for 70+ year old people)

This is the third scanner I am purchasing of the same brand. I've got it for our family, for my brother and for my parents. It is so easy to operate (even for 70+ year old people). You can scan everything from big documents to small business cards and receipts. My stationery Samsung "all-in-one" printer scans documents only in Jpeg and other image files, which was very inconvenient. So, I have purchased this travel size Fujitsu, as it scans and saves in many other formats. And the fact that this one is wireless, makes life even more easier, as I can take it with me on every trip. Fujitsu once again proved that they provide great products!

ScanSnap iX100 WiFI enabled portable scanner

A few years ago I received a desktop ScanSnap S1500 at work and was blown away by its speed and versatility. No more trekking to a large workgroup Copier/Scanner/Printer to capture documents. No more being constrained by the "black & white only" limitation on our workgroup devices which made it difficult to capture color images. I was so impressed with software and the device itself that I bought its smaller cousin, the ScanSnap S1100, for home use. After three years of heavy use, I discovered that it had a failed pixel. While that would have been just a minor annoyance scanning text documents, it was a major problem scanning pictures. Since the cost of repairing the now out of warranty unit would likely have exceeded $100, I decided to replace it with the newest version of the s1100, the iX100. This unit is a functional twin to its older cousin but with added WiFI capability. Using a smartphone app, you can scan directly to your phone. If you are at home with a WiFI network running, the smartphone and scanner can communicate through the router. If you're not at home, the scanner can flip roles and function as a WiFI source to which your smartphone can connect directly. Also, your home-based desktop or laptop computers can connect via USB to the scanner or you can set up a WiFI connection through your home router to your home computers although only one of your home computers can be paired to use the WiFI connection at a time. You need to use the ScanSnap Wireless setup tool to select a different home computer to connect wirelessly to the scanner. You can use the USB interface on any of your computers without having to reconfigure any settings. The fact that you can only use WiFI between the scanner and one of your home computers at a time has been noted as a deficiency. I, too, thought that was a problem however upon thinking it through, I realized that it's a necessary constraint. Consider that if you had more than one PC wirelessly connecting to the scanner how would the multiple instances of the ScanSnap manager software know to which PC you actually wanted to scan a document? Unlike its big brother, the iX100 doesn't feed thru an automatic feeder, but the device makes handling multi-page documents quite easy. Just insert the first page and touch the blue button. The page will scan and the device will wait for you to insert the next page (or flip side of the first page). As soon as it detects the paper in the feeder, it will be scanned. When you've scanned the last page, just touch the blue button again to tell the system you've completed the scanning. The scanned document will be processed according to the settings you chose. While it doesn't do full duplexing like its big brother, it's quite easy (a Snap??) to just flip a page over to scan the second side. The device will scan at your choice of four different resolutions: Normal (Color/Gray: 150 DPI, B&W: 300 DPI) Better (Color/Gray: 200 DPI, B&W: 400 DPI) Best (Color/Gray: 300 DPI, B&W: 600 DPI) And at a slower speed (ideal for high quality capture of color pictures, etc) Excellent: (Color/Gray: 600 DPI, B&W: 1200 DPI) When you use it, the ScanSnap manager gives you several choices of what to do with a scan. You can Scan to a PDF in a folder, email, print, JPG, OCRd PDF, Power Point, Excel, Word, Sharepoint, Card or Receipt minder and several cloud-based destinations. You can customize each option to specify a location to store files, resolution, etc. You can even create custom items to scan documents into a specific application of your choosing. If you're scanning multiple JPG files, each scan will become a seperate file. Saved files are named with a long time stamp (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS) or you can specify your own default file name prefix (letting the software add a serial number after your file name). If you scan to any of the Office suite editors (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) the document will retain the original fonts and formatting! The Card Minder application will automatically capture metadata from a business card which can then be exported to your contact list. While it's not included, both soft or hard cases are available for the scanner. If you'll be travelling with the it, I'd suggest getting this case, too. The iX100 is powered by an internal lithium-ion battery which is recharged through the single USB connection. No worrying about a seperate power brick to lug around. It's small enough that I can leave it plugged in all the time and just drop it behind my computer when I'm not using it or put it in front of my keyboard to scan. All in all, a very impressive device!!

Will never purchase anything else!

Set up took 8 minutes for my iMac computer, iPad and iPhone. And I am not even that techy, I just followed the directions. Great way to keep my office paperless when I am on the go! Great quality products and have no complaints. Start with setting up with the computer first with the USB and then the guide helps you set up everything else.

Not great for posters

I love it. It's everything I expect it to be. I didn't expect it to be able to scan receipts or business cards well enough. There's too much artistic logo there to trip the program. However, for archiving materials, it's great. I've been scanning bills, letters, magazines, and other paper work. Now, all my important papers (and others not so important) are all backed up in my computer and flash drive. I know coming in that it is a simplex, single feed scanner. The included software is what sold it for me. There's no TWAIN compatibility, but I don't need it. The included software does its work just fine. The top page returner works great for double sided scanning. A little caveat on feeding the pages. You have to pause in-between scanning the pages or the scanner is liable to skip a page. Another catch is that sometimes, the scanning software decides that your page is upside down, even though it's not. I solved this by unchecking the automatic page orientation option. If there's a regret, is that I cannot engage the automatic image stitching. To this day, I cannot scan an 11x17 poster. But that's minor complaint as everything else is great.

Portable, Reliable, and Quick Scanner

Didn't know that I would like this product so much. When I read the specs, I was thinking that this would be a slow scanner. Although you have to manually feed 1 sheet at a time, the speed is very good and the response on the unit (when "waking" up the product) is very reliable. I run this unit both wirelessly and wired. The application software for the Mac and PC are equally responsive. Overall, would buy again and recommend to anyone that has a home office or wants to have the ability to scan something at home or on the road. Scan quality is great and the colors that it picks up is accurate.

At that stage the scanning went very smoothly.

We just scanned about 7000 photographs of our own, and inheritted from previous generations. The photographs weighed about 70#. Although the scanner came with what appeared to be a stuck pixel, a few cleanings finally cleared it. At that stage the scanning went very smoothly. Only rarely did we need to clean the scanner. We used the recommended "Standard" scan profile with a medium jpeg compression of "3". There was barely noticable degradation of the image. By barely, I mean magnifying the jpeg until an eyeball (of someone in the photograph) is about 1" on the computer monitor and comparing it to the paper photograph using a physical magnifying glass. Turns out that the physical "prints" we received from our film cameras aren't so good anyway. And that applies to about 20 different film processors from 1940 to 2003. The beauty of the "Standard" profile setting is that a 4x6 or 5x7 photo scans in about 2 seconds. It takes about that long to get the next photo ready to scan, so that's about as fast as humanly possible anyway. Finally we got rid of all this stuff. What a relief.

This is a mighty little thing

I received this several hours ago. Replaced a Scansnap S1300 that got the job done but was a royal pain to set up for an occasional scan job. I was seriously miffed when I needed to scan something and discovered they stopped software support at Mojave 14.1. I chose iX100 strictly for the wireless aspect and price (the tiny size is a nice bonus). Online setup was a breeze with guided steps using the usb connection to the computer. When that finished, it provides the opportunity to test the scan function, which worked perfectly. Then it asked if wireless setup was desired. Yes please, and once again, guided wireless setup finished in a flash. It was plugged into an electrical outlet to charge the battery on the other side of the room. Turned on the wireless, scanned a document, and it popped up on the laptop computer screen. Love it.

A must if you travel and deal with forms and other paper.

Works as advertised, recommend to anyone who is mobile and deals with forms and other paper. You should know that when connecting to an iPad the "Security Key" written on device is the password for wifi connection. Not the 4 digit number "password" written on device. This confused me. The 4 digit "password" written on the device is for the ScanSnap app you download and connect too. Once pass that I am very pleased. I really like this scanner!!!

top notch, versatile wireless mobile scanner

I have a Fujitsu ix500 scanner attached to my desktop computer at home which is the finest scanner I've ever used. I needed a portable scanner, though, for use with my laptop computer while working out-of-state. I did not hesitate to order this Fujitsu ScanSnap ix100 wireless mobile scanner for that purpose. The scanner arrives boxed securely and includes installation software and a USB cable. The scanner is surprisingly small and powered by a lithium ion battery that is recharged via USB. No AC adapter is provided, so you will either need to charge it on your computer or use a 3rd party AC adapter for USB charging (I simply use the one I use for my iPad and iPhone). The battery should be fully charged before using the scanner, so I just charged it up overnight and was ready to go. The installation software gives you the option to install off the included disc or download the latest version. I opted to download the latest version, which is a very large download and takes quite a while to download and install even with fast broadband wi-fi. Additional software for OCR scanning and interface with various services like Dropbox and Evernote is also available to download for free from Fujitsu during installation. I had no difficulty downloading and installing all of the software on my HP Pavillion laptop running Windows 10, and the scanner was quickly ready to go. To turn on the scanner you simply pull down the front cover and open the lid. A blue lighted button off to the right shows you the scanner is powered and ready to go. You simply put your document or receipt in the scanner slot and press the blue button. Scanning is very fast. A dialog box opens to give you the option to scan additional pages or to finish the scan. The software can be configured to automatically scan to a specified folder or to an application like Word or Excel. The scanner does not perform duplex scanning (you will have to flip and scan two-sided documents) but can scan two receipts side by side simultaneously. There is software provided to organize receipts, but I find it cumbersome and awkward to use and prefer to use the ScanSnap organizer instead. Unlike the Fujitsu ix500 scanner, there is no carrier sheet provided to scan photos or jagged documents (it can be purchased separately from Fujitsu if needed). The coolest feature of this scanner, for me anyway, is the ability to wirelessly scan a document directly into an iPad or iPhone. Just download and install the ScanSnap app from the App Store. When you run the app it will detect the scanner and allow you to control the scanner with the app. The app is somewhat awkward to use and really needs to be improved (you have to go through several steps before scanning to assign a name for your file and change it every time you want to scan another document), but it is still enormously handy to scan something into a mobile device. In summary, the Fujitsu ix100 is a great wireless mobile scanner that is very fast and versatile. Yes, it costs more than other similar wireless scanners, but it is worth the higher cost.

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