Review on 📄 Efficient Scanning with the HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow 7000 s3 Sheet-feed Scanner (L2757A) by Jack Enhanced

After completing a paid survey regarding the purchase of a desktop scanner, I was told the survey company was Hewlett-Packard and they wanted me to review the scanner, after I could keep him. Hardware: 5 stars (easy to maintain, fast) Software: 3+ stars (maybe more intuitive or with better help/guide) I have 8 years experience with a comparable scanner (for the price) from another manufacturer that is in this space myself will refer to this review as "X-Scanner". Our company has several printers that are used daily in a dirty production environment averaging over 800 pages per day. Driver and software installation was as easy as you would expect from an HP product. The included power and USB cables were longer than I usually expect, which was great since I have a desktop that sits slightly higher than the CPU and outlet. The HP has a small, bright LCD screen that shows which scan profile is the currently selected item, and up/down arrow keys to toggle between them. It doesn't provide as much information as "X Scanner", but most of the same information is available in the "Scanner Tools" utility and you don't need to see it often. It seems strange that when you click the Tools button on the scanner, it prompts you to use the software on the computer. There's a slider for choosing the type of duplex printing (book or tablet), but it's not entirely clear how it's supposed to work. After speaking to an HP product rep, I learned that it can scan folded paper without jamming. Cool feature I didn't even know existed. I like the simplex and duplex buttons on the scanner, but only because the HP software doesn't support automatic two-sided printing like the X scanner does. "X-Scanner" (which is pretty good). Whoever designed this part of this scanner should be responsible for designing ALL the hardware at HP. It's so simple it's almost a technical marvel. Normally we don't need OCR, just a regular PDF that looks the same as the original, with a reasonable file size. The HP Smart Scan Software supports many of the features I expect, such as B. Page orientation and hole removal. It also has many features that would be useful for the right application, but I didn't spend much time evaluating them since I don't use them. Digital signatures in PDF format, many file types including .epub, .htm, .jpg, .xls, .xlsx, pptx, .docx, .png, .tif, .xml and some others. OCR in many languages. This scanner is incredibly fast at 300ppi and below. Speed drops noticeably once you increase it to 400 ppi or more, but 300 ppi is usually sufficient for most high-volume text documents. HP has more options for scanning at different ppi values, which I think is good, but since storage is so cheap we scan almost everything at 300ppi. The problem was setting up the software to get the scan results I was looking for. My first impression of the scanner's color fidelity was not very good. I tried scanning again with the TWAIN driver compatible software I sometimes use with "X-Scanner" and the color looked great so the software was the problem. It took some tweaking to get good color reproduction with the same file size as my regular scanner. That's the only thing that upsets me. Although the profile includes a setting for automatic color detection, even at the highest detection settings, this software does not adequately detect a small amount of color. If you need to scan pages that are primarily black and white with color lettering, you need to set the profile to color without auto-detection. I discussed this with an HP tech and suggested they come up with a few more default profiles with more detailed explanations of what to expect from each. I spent a lot of time tweaking the HP software settings to try to better duplicate the results I expected from the "X" scanner software. HP has a lot more settings to control, which I think is great for some people's needs, but it just takes longer to get the scan results I was looking for. Per. I mainly scan invoices, AutoCad drawing files, receipts, contracts, just business documents in general. Scanner "X" was definitely easier to just install the software and get it working with great results for simple archiving purposes. However, if you want to take advantage of any of the additional features of HP software, you will need to purchase aftermarket software that is compatible with TWAIN drivers and hope for the best. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with an HP product and R&D representative. They were very interested in my suggestions for minor changes to the software, such as: B. additional default profiles with explanations for each profile that would probably fix my problems.