When I try and configure using Snapscan Wireless Tool is doesn't see a scanner on the wireless network. Incidentally, IOS do see the scanner wirelessly. The only way the scanner gets recognized is if I connect via USB cable. After the wireless is set up, I can disconnect the USB cable. The ScanSnap iX500 in addition to being able to wirelessly scan to a PC or Mac also supports wireless scanning to mobiles and tablets including iOS, Android* and Kindle devices. In conjunction with the ScanSnap Connect Application** users can initiate the scanning process from the scanner or mobile.
Aside from my iMac, the ScanSnap iX500 is the most useful technology I have. Being retired, this scanner was purchased to organize the information contained within the mountain of writings, receipts, tax information, invoices, photographs, and bills occupying many file cabinets and drawers and to then eliminate most of that paper. Rather than use the excellent software provided, i.e. Evernote et al, I am using the file and folders system native to the iMac and that is working well for our purposes.Since this iMac has Windows XP Pro running under Parallels, I installed both the Apple and Windows software. Since that installation, I have removed the Windows installation as unneeded. Hardware and software installation was by the numbers and glitch free.I started slow with a couple of file folders and incoming mail to get the feel of the ScanSnap and rapidly discovered just how easy and fast this process is. Naming the scanned files to easily find them by date and subject is the most time consuming part of the process and that is now partly automated with copy and paste of like item descriptions. Once started, the process of scanning, electronically filing, and most importantly filling the shredder becomes a bit of fun because one can actually see and measure progress as space is cleared while information is still readily available. On those occasions when I have had to find some bit of trivia or tax related information, I have it on the screen much faster than I would have when shuffling through the file drawers.Being able to scan to a particular folder or the Desktop is the first feature we used. Recently, I have been scanning to email and used that feature recently with our brokerage firm to send and receive forms requiring signature while on the phone. They place a form on our portion of their website, we print it, sign it, scan it back to email and send it back to them and done. That fast. No snail mail, no waiting, any errors fixed on the fly while talking to the representative on the other end of the line. That is technology that works for us.I recently recovered a large number of old photographs from my Mother's estate which I have now scanned into iPhoto on the iMac. Those old black and white photos dating back to the early 1900's were then shared with family across the country. Again, technology that works. None of the photos were damaged in the least by the process.Because of limited vision, scanning documents into the computer has also allowed my wife to read documents using Apple's magnified screen feature. Now the mail that I previously had to read to her, is scanned in to her iMac where she magnifies it and reads it easily or I can scan to text and she can use the computer to read it to her.The only difficulty encountered was with some old, fragile paperwork that crumpled a bit going through the scanner. Smoothed and fed individually, most went through on a second pass. The transparent document carrier was used for the others.I continue to find new uses for the scanner.Highly recommended.
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I have a MacBook Pro, running OSX 10.9.2, and last week I purchased a ScanSnap iX500, which is a great document scanner.
However, I prefer that it connect by wireless, and not USB. I set it up wirelessly and it worked fine, but when I shut everything down and booted up the next day, the MacBook did not see the ScanSnap.
I called tech support and they got it reconnected, but the next day the same thing happened.
I learned that if you right-click on the ScanSnap Manager icon in the taskbar, select Connect By Wi-Fi, then uncheck and then recheck 'Connect automatically to the last connected ScanSnap by Wi-Fi' it is the quickest solution to reconnecting.
It would be nice if it would do this on its own, but to this day it will not.
My Macbook Pro is set up as a desktop replacement here in my office, so I take it home every night, and come into my office the next day and reconnect to my monitor, keyboard, etc., and I where I have the ScanSnap placed is not condusive to using the USB cable.
Hope this helps if you are also having a connection issue with the ScanSnap iX500 connecting wirelessly to a Macbook Pro.
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Thank you,
Dan of Troy
(No relation to Helen)
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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