Im 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 didnt 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.

Yes VueScan and ExactScan both support this scanner, and work well.

At that point, I might as well buy a different document scanner.

Ive been eying the Avision AW210 Color Simplex or Avision AD230 Color Duplex.

But if VueScan and ExactScan have gotten this non-TWAIN scanner to work Open Source has to.

Fujitsu Scansnap Mac In VirtualBox

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).

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 doesnt work on macOS.

However, this whole projects is python GTK so it just the matter of time before its 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 distros package manager.

Of course make sure your scanner is connected Next, a few simple command lines: brew install sane-backends xsane sane-find-scanner.

Fujitsu Scansnap Driver Specific Options

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: scanimage -d fujitsu --format jpeg -b -p --sourceADF Duplex --resolution 300 --mode color 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 notesscripts I stumble over NormanTUDAutoFeedscanOCR 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.

But hard to install for an average user (a techie, ops, engdeveloper probably can get it done) but it is really awkward for the multiple page scans in version 1.3.

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.

Fujitsu Scansnap Driver For Mac