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Adding a Fujitsu PFU ScanSnap ix1500 scanner to a Windows machine that already had a ix500 scanner workflow was cumbersome

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/06

I was hoping for a quick install of the ScanSnap ix1500 on a machine that had a fully working ix500 workflow, just biting the bullet after contemplating about [WayBack] Thoughts on ix500; should I get an ix1500? for a while.

That didn’t work as expected: the Windows machine would not recognise the ix1500 when connected over USB or WiFi:

Missing driver

One problem here is that with the Ix500 installed, only the ix500 driver is known to Windows (on my machine it was in C:\Windows\Inf\oem12.inf which is identical to C:\Windows\SSDriver\SSMini\SSiX500-x64.inf) and the ScanSnap Installer software did not copy all drivers to C:\Windows\SSDriver\SSMini:

fi5110e-x64.cab
fi5110e-x64.cat
fi5110e-x64.inf
S1100-x64.cab
s1100-x64.cat
S1100-x64.inf
S1300-x64.cab
s1300-x64.cat
S1300-x64.inf
S1300i-x64.cab
s1300i-x64.cat
S1300i-x64.inf
S1500-x64.cab
S1500-x64.cat
S1500-x64.inf
S300-x64.cab
s300-x64.cat
S300-x64.inf
S500-x64.cab
s500-x64.cat
S500-x64.inf
SSiX100-x64.cab
ssix100-x64.cat
SSiX100-x64.inf
SSiX500-x64.cab
ssix500-x64.cat
SSiX500-x64.inf
SV600-x64.cab
sv600-x64.cat
SV600-x64.inf

Incompatible software

I later found out that the ix1500 is incompatible with the ScanSnap Manager: [WayBack] ScanSnap iX1500 Before you buy 03 – Fujitsu Global

Can I use existing ScanSnap Software with ScanSnap iX1500?

ScanSnap iX1500 is not compatible with the following ScanSnap software:

  • ScanSnap Manager
  • ScanSnap Organizer
  • CardMinder
  • ScanSnap Receipt

Also, ScanSnap Home cannot coexist with the ScanSap software above.
The ScanSnap software will be automatically uninstalled from the computer when you install ScanSnap Home onto the computer.

You HAVE to use the ScanSnap Home software, which is way more bloatware than the lightweight ScanSnap Manager solution.

Just look at installer sizes:

versus the old combination of [WayBack] Software Downloads: ScanSnap iX500 : Fujitsu Global totaling to ~0.5 gigabyte for ScanSnap Organizer and Manager:

Note that the only way to download the ** marked files, is to input a serial number of your ScanSnap ix500 into the web page download prompt.

ScanSnap Home offline installers

You will hardly find the off-line installers, as they are not very actively advertised.

This is how you get there:

  1. [WayBack] scansnap home offline installer – Google Search
  2. [WayBack] ScanSnap Home Offline Installer Downloads : Fujitsu Global
  3. Choose type and operating system
  4. Download the file

Here are Windows offline installer pages for some versions (I always prefer .1 versions, as .0 versions usually are glorified betas):

Not all versions mentioned at [WayBack] What’s New – What’s New – ScanSnap Software – Fujitsu Globalhave download links.

Online installer pages have release notes

Unlike the offline installer pages, the online installer pages have release notes, but the on-line installer is only the most recent version:

The software downloads offers the same Abby Fine Reader 5.5 as the ix-500 download page above, but from a different intermediate page:

Alternative download location

Old skool FTP: [WayBack] Index of ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Fujitsu/ScanSnap ix500/Windows 10

Install/Uninstall instructions

Fujitsu has two pages not mentioned in the (very thin!) paperwork that comes with the ix1500:

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2021/08/06 at 06:00 and is filed under Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, ix1500, ix500, Power User, Scanners. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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