Visioneer 9450

Pros: Very easy setup. ADF scans black/white quickly

Cons: Problem with Scansoft recognizing my own Acrobat software.

The Bottom Line: Easy to setup, easy to use; Gets the work done quickly with quality results. Am impressed.

Review: I have some 10,000 pages to scan, many of which are single sheets, and so began looking for a reasonably priced ADF scanner.

I combed the Net for a month and found no reviews for two new (May, 2003) products: the Visioneer 9450 USB (list...

Pros: Good uninstall utilities, you will need them!!

Cons: too many to list here

The Bottom Line: Stay away from this bad bad product

Review: I have over 25 years working with hardware and hooking up peripherals, going back to the IBM PC JR. and hooking up a giant floppy disc reader to it, and building a custom tape reader also. I NEVER ever had problems installing a device like this one...

Pros: Will Probably Work Now

Cons: Will Most Definitely Not Work Later

Review: Visioneer has a history of not supporting its products. It abandoned all of its scanners to the trashbin when Windows ME and 2000 came along, failing to provide drivers for them. Buy a Visioneer, you will end up throwing it away next year when the...

Pros: Reliable, easy set up, good ADF

Cons: Software: replace with Paperport 9.0. The size of the scanner could be smaller.

Review: I did backup and storage for several hundreds of pages. Fast, not noisy, no jams.

Set-up went smoothly. Visioneer 9450 USB recognized my pre-installed Acrobat without any problem.

The only recommendable improvement is with the...

Pros: Makes a decent paperweight.

Cons: Won't work. won't install. And can't entirely uninstall!!!

Review:

9 hours of wasted time. I'm a computer sales clerk at a major store here in Boston, and have installed many, many scanners and other devices over the years, but never so impossible as this one! Spent over a half hour waiting on the phone...

Pros: There is nothing good about this product or my experience with the company's customer service.

Cons: This is a terrible scanner with horrible customer support.

Review: This is a very bad piece of equipment. I would not suggest it to anybody. We purchased the unit to be used on a once-a-day basis for scanning small bundles of documentation. We quickly discovered that the unit was difficult to install. Once...

Pros: Fast, excellent documentation and software bundle, superlative document quality.

Cons: A little pricey for most, I would imagine, but well worth it.

Review: Looking to scan without constantly opening and closing the platten, I searched for a scanner that had a paper feed. I saw the HP 5550c, but did read some tepid reviews about its performance and software bundle. Not only that, the scanner was...

Pros: I can't think of any.

Cons: Not a reliable scanner. Too many returns from other customers.

Review: I've returned three of these scanners in a little bit more than 30 days. The first one worked fine for the first day then it stopped working. I called tech support and tried a few things, it worked for one more scan and the problem came back. Called...

Pros: Automatic Feed, flatbed, capable of scanning both sides with ease. Quick, readable PDFs.

Cons: nothing bad to report.

Review: I was very happy with the capability of this unit. Ease of setup.. anyone with the basic understanding of using a computer can use this scanner. I love the automatic feed and the software capability of scanning both sides into PDF format. PERFECT.....

Pros: Tolerable scanning speed, good size flatbed, 50 page paper capacity (ADF)

Cons: Errors and issues if there?s a paper jam, poor ADF design, takes up desk space

Review: We got this scanner to replace our old Visioneer that broke. Our office had it for about 5 months and it finally got a jam a few days ago exposing a serious design flaw that we were unable to fix. We were trying to scan a long newspaper clipping...