I searched long and hard to find the best scanner for clearing and organizing the piles of backlogged documents in my office. Unfortunately this scanner came without any CDs, paper docs or, most importantly, the OCR software (ABBYY app) that it's advertised with.

I bought the GT 1500 to archive documents. My first project was a 420 page document which I have scanned as a single PDF. The document feeder worked really well and in less than an hour I had a OCR PDF file of the document - very impressed.

This scanner can not be shared on the network when connected to a Mac. It has least reliable paper pickup mechanism than any (HP, Xeros, Ricoh, ...) ADF I have seen in my life. The driver (last version for OSX dated June 2009) is awful and routinely crashes.

The GT-1500 was bought for home use to replace an existing scanner. I needed to scan a whole lot of documents for archive purposes and the GT-1500, with its document feeder seemed to be ideal.

Over all I am really happy with the scanner, within 10 mins I had it working and scanning away. . When the paper doesn't jam it flys thorugh the work converting straight to pdf, easy peasy. It handles A4 no problem in the feed but the autofeed isn't so happy with non uniform sizes.

I am thankful I purchased the Squaretrade warranty because I have to return this scanner. From the outset it was a bad experience because the driver disk was too damaged to read. I downloaded a driver but it turns out there was more software on the disk.

Perfect for small project scans because of the medium speed but great for small office space. Not network cabable.

Resolution; price; Size

Compatability; speed

A common complaint is this is not a duplex scanner. Actually, for a $200 scanner, duplex scans are quick and easy, but the documentation does not tell you how to do them. Here's the trick. When you click "scan" the "file save settings" dialog box pops up. Make sure "show addpage dialog" is checked.

ADF scanner with flatbed option for things that won't go through an ADF; For most documents, I use "office mode," PDF output with high compression, 300dpi (200 is only slightly faster, slightly smaller file size, but noticeably worse image quality), skew correction on (config>other).

I have absolutely no complaints about the scanner, but the documentation is terrible (hence 4 not 5 eggs); The on-line help has no index or TOC, although it does have a search function.

good reliable scanner

easy to use

some difficulties with Word format

Was concerned when I read several reviews complaining about the time it took to process PDF files. Bought anyway. Glad I did. The speed of creating the files apparently is a function of the computer attached. The faster the computer, the faster the files are finished.