The lacking piece is the FrontEnd – the GUI – the Graphical User Interface – that would actually make it useful for macOS users.

And both work well, at least for the functional part. And I have gotten to work with both Ubuntu 19 (on a 10.14 “desktop” Mac in VirtualBox) and on my 10.15 old MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). For $130 vs $100 on software, I think I could deal with the Simplex (maybe).īut if VueScan and ExactScan have gotten this non-TWAIN scanner to work … Open Source has to.

I’ve been eying the Avision AW210 Color Simplex or Avision AD230 Color Duplex. The price is right, but know nothing of this brand. At that point, I might as well buy a different document scanner. However, it would be well over $100 to buy the software. Yes VueScan and ExactScan both support this scanner, and work well. Unfortunately, I didn’t realized Fujitsu would be so lame as to end support.

I search hi and low, read reviews and software support and bought the ScanSnap S1500M used on Amazon of $99 in January 2019. I’m finally taking the plunge, and slowly moving my 3 macs from 10.14 to 10.15.

Scansnap s1500m driver macintosh