With DocKeep, setup is so easy, if it were offered by Fujitsu with the scanner, as a Mac user, I would rate it 5 stars. Somewhat ironically, using DocKeep makes setup such a breeze that none of the difficulties other reviewers describe with Fujitsu's software need to get in your way. So, Mac users, save yourself the frustration, get the scanner and DocKeep, which together coincidentally cost about what the previous package of this scanner cost (when IIRC, Fujitsu did supply Mac support). DocKeep works well, is designed for "production scanning," and is well-supported. fScanX works, and appears well-developed, but not as feature-rich as DocKeep. As I mentioned, with the SANE backend, Paperless crashes too much, and further, its control of the scanner, especially on multi-page scans is erratic, which defeats some of the reason for investing in the 6130Z. Accordex is in the Mac office support business, and they sell bundles with Fujitsu scanners and their software. I ended up choosing DocKeep as another reviewer recommended. Both these commercial packages cost $149, though Accordex has more sophisticated versions that cost $495 and up, with FileMaker integration and features. I tried three solutions on a 2011 iMac 21.5 running Lion 10.7.4 with 16gb RAM: (1) the open source SANE approach, which was not difficult to set up, and it worked okay with the Mariner Paperless software (Paperless seemed to crash with some frequency, and I attribute this to the SANE setup, as I had not had that experience before (2) a commercial package called fScanX which can run in demo mode with a watermark and Accordex's DocKeep, also available in demo mode. I knew this going in, so I was prepared for this shortcoming. Shamefully, as mechanically and optically excellent as the 6130Z is, Fujitsu provides zero (and I do mean zero) software support for the Mac, as if there are no small offices running Macs that could benefit from this excellent scanner. So, I decided to upgrade to a more robust scanner. By the time I contacted Fujitsu, they were very accommodating about repair (seriously, their responsiveness was excellent), but out of warranty, it would cost only $64 less to repair than to replace. I previously owned a Fujitsu ScanSnap S5100M, and while its software support for Mac, and even better, its integration with Mariner Software's Paperless is excellent, the ADF is not robust, and it failed within a year.
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