Review on 🖨️ Efficiently Digitize Documents with Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-5110EOX Sheet-Fed Scanner and Automatic Document Feeder by Kyle Terry

While this scanner works well in black and white with text documents and in color with all documents, it has one problem that previous reviewers didn't experience or notice. When scanning B&W and .pdf images, whether at 150, 300, 600 or 1200 dpi and regardless of the brightness level, the scanned images sometimes have extra blocks of pixelated material that are completely absent from the image. Original picture. From a practical point of view, while this degradation is clear and limited and only seems to occur in white or light areas, it can therefore be explained with little or no loss of knowledge of what the picture looks like, knowing where all the blocks are and can simply be abstracted from it - from an aesthetic point of view this is a problem if it occurs. It was found on two computers, one an Athlon XP 3200 running Windows 98SE and the other a Pentium III 400 running Windows XP, and as such it is unlikely to be related to any specific hardware or software incompatibility or defect responsible for is specific to this scanner because the JPEG and PDF color modes worked fine. These pixelizations are likely artifacts of the compression algorithms used by the FI-5110EOX when processing raw image data in B/W mode. [.] A follow-up experiment with an old Adobe 6 Standard Umax 1200S scanner showed absolutely no pixelation problems on any of the exact same images that the ScanSnap alone handled so poorly (when pixelation was added). (I know the Adobe engineers will be relieved. Even if Acrobat was the problem, one might wonder why Fujitsu used their technology in the first place. The problem is with B&W, the problem is not with Adobe.)