Review Hp Scanjet Pro 2000 S1 Sheetfeed Ocr Scanner

A recent addition to the ScanJet family, the ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner ($299.99) is a capable low-volume document scanner comparable in capacity and features to the Editors' Choice Canon imageFormula DR-C225, as well as the adept Brother ADS-2000e. The ScanJet 2000 is fast for the price, and its optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy is about average. It comes with a comprehensive software bundle consisting of top-drawer OCR and document and business card management programs, making it an exceptional value. In testing, it fell behind some competitors when saving to searchable PDF, but not enough to keep us from recommending it as a strong, inexpensive choice for small and micro offices and workgroups, or as a personal document scanner.

Design & Features

At 5.7 pounds and 6 by 11.8 by 6.8 inches (HWD) with its trays closed, the ScanJet 2000 ($439.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) is a little smaller and lighter than both the Brother ADS-2000e (7.1 by 11.8 by 8.7 inches and 7.3 pounds) and the Canon DR-225 (6.1 by 11.8 by 8.7 inches and 6 pounds). The ScanJet 2000's automatic document feeder (ADF) tray folds down over the face of the machine, and, for operation, it opens and extends upward from the rear. As on most sheet-feed document scanners, the output tray pulls out from the bottom. With both trays open and ready for use, the ScanJet 2000 more than doubles in height and length, but still doesn't require much desktop real estate. Its ADF is rated at 50 sheets and its duty cycle is 2,000 scans per day. The DR-225's ADF holds up to 30 sheets and it has a 1,500-scans-per-day rating, whereas the ADS-2000e has a 50-sheet ADF and 1,500 daily duty cycle, as well.

Unlike its higher-end siblings, the HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow 5000 ($757.89 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) and the HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow 7000 , which both use somewhat elaborate control panels that let you choose workflow profiles and other options from the face of the machine itself, the ScanJet 2000's panel consist of just two buttons: Power and Start. All aspects of your scans, such as resolution, one- or two-sided scanning, and destination, are controlled from the bundled software. Supported file formats include BMP, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TIFF, and TXT, as well as image and searchable PDF, and, in addition to sending scans to the bundled OCR program, you can also send them to e-mail or the cloud.

Setup and Software

Setting up the hardware consists of opening the trays and plugging in the scanner. Unlike many sheet-feed scanners that come with ADF trays that you attach during installation, the ScanJet 2000's input tray comes attached and, as mentioned, it folds down over the face of the chassis. As with most scanners that connect via USB, you hold off inserting the cable until the installation program asks you to. You install the drivers, HP Scan, HP Scanner Utility, and Nuance PaperPort from the included optical disc, and I.R.I.S.'s Readiris (OCR) and Cardiris (business card scanning and archiving) are offered as downloads during both the software installation and each time you open HP Scan.

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HP Scan is the primary scanner interface utility. You can use it by itself or from inside Readiris and Cardiris. I recommend the latter, because HP Scan isn't as robust as HP Smart Document Scan Software, the utility bundled with the ScanJet 5000 and ScanJet 7000. On its own, HP Scan, for instance, doesn't have the ability to save your scans to searchable PDF; scanning from inside one of the I.R.I.S programs provides a wider range of options.

HP ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner

The HP Scanner Tools Utility isn't as feature-rich as it is on higher-end ScanJets, either. On the enterprise-oriented ScanJets, HP Scanner Tools Utility lets you, for example, manage profiles on the scanner itself, which is not supported on the ScanJet 2000. Here, the utility allows you to set maintenance notifications, change power management options, and view info such as firmware version and the number of pages scanned. Readiris, the OCR app that ships with most ScanJets, is an industry-standard program for converting scanned text to editable text. Cardiris is, of course, a business card scanning and archiving utility, and PaperPort is a popular document management application. For such an inexpensive document scanner, the ScanJet 2000 comes with everything you need for scanning, processing, and managing your documents and business cards.

Performance

HP rates the ScanJet 2000 at 24 pages per minute (ppm) for simplex (one-sided) pages and 48 images per minute (ipm) for duplex (two-sided) pages, where each side of a sheet is counted as one image. I tested it on our core i5 PC running Windows 10, using HP Scan running inside of Readiris at the default 300dpi resolution. Excluding the lag time (the time it takes to save the scans to either image or searchable PDF after the last page hits the output tray), the ScanJet 2000 hardware scanned at the rate of 27.3ppm and 54.5ipm, or 3ppm and 6ipm higher than its rating. When scanning and saving to image PDF, it slowed to 23.1ppm and 40ipm—still close to its ratings, but significantly slower than without the lag time. The Brother ADS-2000e managed 22ppm and 46ipm on this portion of the test, and Canon's DR-225 scanned and saved to image PDF at 24.2ppm and 48.4ipm.

Searchable PDF is the more versatile format for document archiving and exporting to editable text files. Scanning our two-sided 25-sheet (50-page) document to searchable PDF took 1 minute 30 seconds, which was 35 seconds longer (from 0:55 to 1:30) than without the time required for processing and saving, and 16 seconds longer (from 1:14 to 1:30) than when scanning to image PDF. While these lag times are significant, what's more important is how these times compare to those achieved by competing models. The ADS-2000e, for example, took 1:28 to scan and save 25 two-sided pages to searchable PDF. The DR-225, on the other hand, took only 1:09 to perform the same task.

Also important to note is that we couldn't find a way to get the HP software to scan and process our scans without user intervention somewhere in the procedure, by either clicking Save or Done (depending on which software) to start processing and saving the PDF file. With nearly every document scanner we've reviewed, there's a way to make the procedure go start-to-end automatically, thereby allowing the user to walk away while scanning a stack of documents.

HP ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner

OCR and Other Tests

The ScanJet 2000 performed well on OCR accuracy. It and Readiris converted our Arial font test page without errors down to 6 points and our Times New Roman page down to 8 points, which is as good as some scanners that cost significantly more. It tied the equally list-priced Brother ADS-2000e and beat the slightly more-expensive Epson DS-530 Color Duplex Document Scanner's 8 points for both fonts. The Canon DR-225, on the other hand, managed to convert both fonts at 6 points without mistakes.

I also scanned into Cardiris and got results similar to that of the higher-end ScanJet 5000 and ScanJet 7000. When scanning cards with white or light-color backgrounds, the software did a fine job of recognizing text and populating the appropriate fields in the database. Scanning cards with darker colored backgrounds and other features that make text more difficult to decipher caused varying results. Sometimes only a few scans required corrections; other times most of the characters were wrong. Turning on HP Scan's color-drop and other filters helped to varying degrees, depending primarily on the complexity of the business cards themselves.

Conclusion

For the same list price as the Brother ADS-2000e, the HP ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner offers a higher-capacity ADF and a higher daily duty cycle, as well as comparable speed and accuracy. However, we would rather see the HP Smart Document Scan Software interface utility bundled here, instead of HP Scan. The former has more features and it can operate unattended, which is, admittedly, less of a concern on a lower-volume scanner like this one. Aside from that, the ScanJet 2000 delivers excellent performance, and not once did it jam or otherwise hiccup in our testing. It's not quite as fast and accurate as the current Editors' Choice, the Canon DR-225. But with a lower price, the ScanJet 2000 is a viable alternative for low-volume scanning in a personal, small-workgroup, or micro-office setting.

HP ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner

The Bottom Line

The HP ScanJet Pro 2000 s1 Sheet-feed Scanner is accurate and performs well overall. And it comes with a complete software bundle, making it a good value.

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