You can tell Fujitsu designed this scanner for functionality and durability. With the iX500, the slowdown is hardly noticeable. With OCR enabled on my S1300i I felt a significant scanning and processing slowdown. That being said, the processor in the iX500 does the OCR data crunching much better than my S1300i. I don’t use scanner level OCR processing - I let Evernote do this for me on their own time and on their own servers. For a scanner in this price range, duplex (double sided) scanning is expected. With everyday scanning a 10 page paper tray versus a 50 page paper tray isn’t a big issue, but if you’ve decided to work your way through a large backlog of old files the increased capacity will keep you sane.

With my S1300i I always worry about a double feed anytime I have more than 10 pages. Unfortunately I didn’t test the limits of the paper tray capacity on the iX500 but it’s advertised as handling stacks of 50 pages with ease. The speed difference between the iX500 and the S1300i is significant and noticeable. The ix500 advertises up to 25 pages per minute, but in my tests, even with a large stack in the paper tray, I know the scanner over delivered in the speed department. Unlike the Doxie Go WiFi with an internal battery, you’ll still need the power cable to make the iX500 go. After that, the Scansnap will automatically connect to your wireless network every time it turns on. With this scanner you’ll need the USB cable exactly one time - to initially configure the wireless settings.

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