Epson WorkForce DS-510

A convincing, keenly priced sheet-fed document scanner, but it's not the best

Epson WorkForce DS-510 review

The Canon and Fujitsu scanners have stiff competition indeed from this handy little Epson. Robust but ruthlessly effective, it's reasonably fast and comes with powerful software. The standard DS-510, in particular, is very good value for money for serious businesses who have lots of paperwork to convert to a digital format.

Epson WorkForce DS-510 Review

Epson lists the Epson WorkForce DS-510($753.99 at Amazon) on its website under workgroup scanners, and, indeed, it offers enough capability for a small office or workgroup. However, the low price and small size make it a strong candidate for a personal desktop scanner as well. More important, its fast speed, 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), and bundled software make it a good fit for either role. It doesn't offer quite enough to replace the Canon imageFormula DR-C125 as Editors' Choice, but it comes in a close second. Both of these scanners do an excellent job for optical character recognition (OCR) and document management, and they both offer similar raw scan speeds, with Epson rating the DS-510 at 26 pages per minute (ppm) and 52 images per minute (ipm)—with one image on each side of a page. The Canon DR-C125 is a little faster at text recognition and it does a better job with business cards, but it also costs more. Setup and SoftwareAt a compact 6.1 by 11.7 by 6.0 in...

The Epson WorkForce DS-510 document scanner offers a 50-sheet automatic document feeder, fast scans, duplex (two-sided) scanning, and a capable scan utility.

Automatic document feeder; Duplex (two-sided) scanning; Excellent text recognition and document management

Did not do well with recognizing text on business cards in our tests