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I just bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 off of eBay recently, and upgrading to macOS Monterey has made it unreadable. Time to downgrade back to Mojave by way of

I just bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 off of eBay recently, and upgrading to macOS Monterey has made it unreadable. Time to downgrade back to Mojave by way of Time Machine, because Apple hates legacy hardware of third party OEMs, never mind its own.

monksy 4y ago
I have a Snapscan S1300i, SANE and linux still works with it. I have no complaints about this device. Other than the USB B cable endpoint.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  At this point I’ve got devices with basically every single usb type and I’ll have to keep cables around for them all. The only one that actually seems to have dropped out of existence is micro usb 3.0 which had the little wing bit sticking out the side you used to get on phones and portable hard drives.
fmajid 4y ago
ExactScan Pro supports the S1500M on modern versions of macOS, and is superior to ScanSnap's own software in most ways. Mojave won't help, I had to switch to ExactScan when I "upgraded" to Mojave (although I believe Fujitsu brought back S1500M support in the original ScanSnap software on Mojave by popular demand a few years later). Treasure it, the S1500M uses a CCD sensor, unlike all subsequent ScanSnaps that use inferior CIS sensors with much worse color fidelity, and even photo-oriented models like the Epson FastFoto series: https://blog.majid.info/scanner-group-test/ https://blog.majid.info/scanner-group-test/
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  It was previously scanning on Mojave for me, but good to know, maybe I can use ExactScan Pro to get it to recognize my S1500M without me having to downgrade. I had stayed on that macOS release for quite some time for 32-bit app support, not to mention updating to Monterey also borked my MBP's ability to recognize NTFS drives, needing me to get Paragon NTFS.
  - fmajid 4y ago
    Well, I'm on Ventura 13.2 on my new Mac Studio and ExactScan Pro works just fine on my S1500M.
DwnVoteHoneyPot 4y ago
!! I have a S1300, was going to scan stuff soon. Yikes, I didn't think it wouldn't work. Have you tried VueScan software? I have a license for VueScan and can try it out later tonight. (I also have a S1100 which Fujitsu sent me because a won an online draw!)

monksy 4y ago

I have a Snapscan S1300i, SANE and linux still works with it. I have no complaints about this device. Other than the USB B cable endpoint.

Gigachad 4y ago
At this point I’ve got devices with basically every single usb type and I’ll have to keep cables around for them all. The only one that actually seems to have dropped out of existence is micro usb 3.0 which had the little wing bit sticking out the side you used to get on phones and portable hard drives.

fmajid 4y ago

ExactScan Pro supports the S1500M on modern versions of macOS, and is superior to ScanSnap's own software in most ways. Mojave won't help, I had to switch to ExactScan when I "upgraded" to Mojave (although I believe Fujitsu brought back S1500M support in the original ScanSnap software on Mojave by popular demand a few years later). Treasure it, the S1500M uses a CCD sensor, unlike all subsequent ScanSnaps that use inferior CIS sensors with much worse color fidelity, and even photo-oriented models like the Epson FastFoto series: https://blog.majid.info/scanner-group-test/ https://blog.majid.info/scanner-group-test/

Apocryphon 4y ago
It was previously scanning on Mojave for me, but good to know, maybe I can use ExactScan Pro to get it to recognize my S1500M without me having to downgrade. I had stayed on that macOS release for quite some time for 32-bit app support, not to mention updating to Monterey also borked my MBP's ability to recognize NTFS drives, needing me to get Paragon NTFS.
- fmajid 4y ago
  Well, I'm on Ventura 13.2 on my new Mac Studio and ExactScan Pro works just fine on my S1500M.

DwnVoteHoneyPot 4y ago

!! I have a S1300, was going to scan stuff soon. Yikes, I didn't think it wouldn't work. Have you tried VueScan software? I have a license for VueScan and can try it out later tonight. (I also have a S1100 which Fujitsu sent me because a won an online draw!)