From students to professors, to administrative staff and board members, one commonality lies within all parties – the need to store and record a large amount of paper. Whether you’re scanning class notes, daily lesson plans, graded work from students or digitizing and deploying presentations, ScanSnap is the perfect scanner to fit a wide array of necessities.  Here are four stories from students, professors and administrators who share how ScanSnap enhanced efficiency, improved productivity and eliminated paper in the education field.

“As a student at UCLA, I tend to pick up a significant amount of literature. The university has begun distributing documents online rather than by paper, such as class syllabi, essay prompts and video links. However, professors often cannot distribute all material digitally without running against copyright infringement. Plus, there are handwritten notes for math and other diagram- heavy classes, which do not have fast note-taking analogue in computer applications. Finally, there are handouts from student events, and library and analogue database research, to account for. As an off-campus student I know a thing or two about making work go faster and about getting organized. College students have a chance to innovate, to set up their own lifestyles for the first time. And in today’s environmentally-conscious world, increasingly connected by the World Wide Web, digitizing documents and creating a paperless office is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity. Scanning documents with the Fujitsu ScanSnap would allow me to use programs like Evernote for online storage and access anywhere, Yep by Ironic Software for local document tagging and organizing, and Readiris for Optical Character Recognition to facilitate rapid searching of all life’s papers.  For a student, the ideal scanner is fast, cheap and easy. In other words, it’s the ScanSnap S300M. One-touch scanning with easily adjustable settings, and at less than the size and weight of a couple of textbooks! When a document is longer than 10 pages these days, it’s usually available either on the Internet or in a more compact form; for all those everyday pieces there is the dual-scan functionality that makes it easy to digitize a whole range of photos, flyers and more! If I had a ScanSnap for college, I could concentrate on innovation, not procrastinate on organization.” – Rhett Jones, Los Angeles, CA

“I have never used a scanner before because my secretary has always scanned documents for me. I do have a scanner built into my Canon photocopier at home and learning how to use it was on my list of things to do. The reason I have put it off for so long was because I perceived the scanner to be complicated to use (the reality might be that using the scanner on the Canon copier is easy, but it looks difficult). I recently acquired a Fujitsu ScanSnap for my office and asked the IT department to install it. The scanner sat for about two weeks, looking at me, before I decided to give it a try. I had to comment on a questionnaire a friend had written for her new business; so I printed off the questionnaire, wrote comments over it, and sent it back to her using my ScanSnap. I inserted the document into the feeder and within a few minutes, I had a scanned copy of the questionnaire filed on my computer and was able to send the document as an attachment. It was incredibly easy to use! I think ScanSnap is going to be one of those products I will use so much, that soon I can’t imagine living without it. Much of what I do is to provide feedback to students, former students and clients. I still like to receive hard copies of documents but being able to write comments on assignments and send them back via email is an obvious benefit of ScanSnap.” – Dr. Jenny Darroch, The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

“I am a second year law student and I’m looking ahead at the daunting task of preparing for the bar exam in a year or so.  I bought the S1500M to scan all my core courses into files…reducing binders full of notes, old exams and practice materials down to a few megabytes of information that I can easily access now.  Rather than dragging around boxes and boxes of materials everywhere I go to prepare for the bar exam, now I just take my notebook computer with me and it’s all right there.  I should have thought of this years ago, but scanners were so slow and awkward and unpredictable, it wasn’t worth the hassle.  I know I’ll be using this scanner when I open my own law practice in a little over a year, too!  No more 3-inch thick files for clients ever again.” – Rich Mitchell, St. John, IN

“My ScanSnap saved me today! I had to send a large PowerPoint, via email, to two of our professors, Professor Sathe and Professor deKluyver, who were in Japan to teach a course. The files were too big and would not go through; so I used my handy, dandy scanner and they went through like a breeze! I use my ScanSnap S1300 almost on a daily basis. It’s so easy to use and the file instructions are very clear. Since I am the only person on my floor with a scanner, it has been a real lifesaver.  I am able to scan flyers for students, invoices that need to be emailed, grade rosters to send to faculty, and even pictures that are posted to the Web site. This has proven to be a very useful tool indeed – I absolutely love my ScanSnap!” – Jodi L. James, The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management, Claremont Graduate University