Visioneer Xerox Duplex Combo Flatbed Scanner with Automatic Document Feeder

Scans are attached and speak for themselves, this is at the highest quality setting, 600 dpi. It comes with everything you need (power, USB A to USB B cable), it scans reasonably quickly even at higher quality settings, I was able to scan about 50 family photos in one afternoon after work. I haven't personally yet had need for the feature to scan a pile of documents loaded onto the tray, but I assume I could get it to work if I needed to. I like that it's reasonably light weight, without feeling especially fragile, and can easily be stored elsewhere if I don't want it sitting on my desk. The software for this is easy to use for those vaguely experienced, otherwise a little wheel spinning is to be expected. Beyond the scanner driver, install the OneTouch software included on the CD, also readily available from Xerox's website when searching "Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner Drivers Software" -- without quotes. They also bundle in an optional Optical Character Recognition software, Alyssa, to make scanned documents searchable; if none of that sounds like something you're worried about, you don't need it. My concern was to digitize some old family photos, so I didn't install that optional inclusion either. There are quite a few optional features in the OneTouch software, scan to folder, scan to email, etc. things that your enterprise IT department might care about your average user should just scan to a folder. The software looks a little retro to me, but it works just fine in 2021, UI aesthetics for something like this aren't that critical. Installation is pretty simple, drivers are only available for Windows, so Linux users can either passthrough the USB device to a VM or boot into Windows.

I purchased the “Xerox XD-COMBO Duplex Combo Flatbed Document Scanner” to turn 30 years of paper into digital, searchable PDF’s. I wanted to write this review because I’ve used other scanners in the past, and it’s hard to ensure what features you are getting before buying. This scanner hits on all cylinders and shines. Here’s my experience from installation to digitization. The installation gives you the option to install from the internet, so you know that you are getting the most up-to-date version. I chose to install from the internet. It took about 30 minutes but executed without issue. There is a lot of documentation provided. This review focuses primarily on the Visioneer Capture SE software, but it also installs a number of productivity tools such as, • Visioneer Organizer AI: Indexes your documents so you can quickly search to find a document by contents. • ABBYY Business Card Reader: Allows you to scan business cards and convert them into contacts. • OneTouch: Quick access via the toolbar to start things such as scan, search, or print documents. • Various applications to read, edit, and compare PDF files as well as clipboard capture to PDF. Here are some of the features I’ve come to expect in a scanner which the “Xerox XD-COMBO” supports: • Automatic Document Feeder: The feeder is the best I’ve seen at successfully handling paper and in speed. I even crumpled up a paper and added a tear…it still was able to feed it successfully. • Searchable-PDF support: It matches other OCR capabilities I’ve seen and even matches font for copy/paste operations. OCR was successful even on scans where the text was skewed or warped. • Scan Profiles: The software comes with default scanning profiles with the ability to save your own custom profiles. I primarily tested with 1) 300 DPI, 2) Document Size = Maximum, 3) Rotate = Automatic, 4) Skip blank originals, 5) Duplex. This also allows you to configure • Ability to rotate, crop, delete, and insert pages. • Using the ADF, I was able to successfully scan 2 letter size pages end-to-end (i.e. 8.5” x 22”). Scanning via the glass pane only supports up to A4 size and you are limited to 8.5” page width. • The User Interface isn’t the most glamorous, but it’s fairly easy to find the functionality. The two things I feel it’s missing are 1) Showing the document size (e.g. 8.5” x 11”) of a selected page and 2) Ability to reorder pages. Though, you can accomplish the later using the insert, merge, and split functionality. • Supports export to PDF, PDF/A, Searchable-PDF, TIFF, JPG, and BMP. Here are features that I think make the “Xerox XD-COMBO” stand out from others: • When a jam occurs, I was able to remove the jammed paper and retry. With other scanners, I was forced to restart the scan over completely. That can be frustrating when you’ve scanned 100+ pages and it jams near the end. • Allows you to merge and split PDF documents. So if you have say, 100 pages, you can scan them in batches and merge all into a single document. It also allows you to import any of your existing documents, so you can perform merges with them too. • Allows you to selectively perform edits (such as rotate or delete) multiple pages, prior to export. • With the option to auto-detect orientation and blank pages, I no longer had to manually delete blank pages or rotate pages that were in landscape mode. This is the best I’ve seen to support efficient office automation. • Cropping options even include “snapping” the page size to the closest matching standard document sizes (e.g. Letter, A4). • You can configure the OneTouch buttons to control document automation from scan to target storage. • Supports export of documents to cloud storage (Google Drive). In summary, I’ve used many scanners and OCR software in the past. This combination by far beats all of them and comes in a portable package. The variety of options has saved me a lot of manual effort and time. I can see that there are many more options that I don’t even use that will help you automate scanning of documents to storage and easily search and retrieve those documents for printing or sharing with your team.

I didn't set up the scanner immediately after purchasing it. When I did, I discovered (too late for return) that my shipment had EU and UK adaptor clips, but did not have a US adaptor clip. The power supply is designed with little sliding plastic clips that provide the prong configuration for each country, and you slide them directly into the power brick. These can't cost more than 10 cents to manufacture, but they aren't available from Xerox as separate parts. Attempting to use the EU clip with a US adaptor created an unstable connector. I had tried to purchase an aftermarket plug from Amazon, which was claimed to be compatible with the Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner, but the plug sent did not fit the power port, so I am returning it. All else having failed, I contacted Xerox, only to learn that I would have to buy a new power supply for $44.40 plus FedEx shipping. I have waited more than 20 minutes and they still couldn't tell me the FedEx shipping cost. This has wasted hours of my time in total, and $265 for a device I've never been able to use. My recommendation? Don't choose Xerox products and don't purchase critical tech components from Amazon. And now I can't find a Windows 11 driver for the Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner. (Xerox is a services company. I'll never again buy home computing equipment made by Xerox.)

La mejor compra que pude haber hecho, me ha ahorrado muchisimo tiempo y eso que apenas la he utilizado Vi otros modelos un poco mas pequenos y me dieron desconfianza, sin embargo han de ser bastante buenos ya que vi que en realidad tiene 2 escaners uno para la bandeja de papel y el otro de cama plana que es mas funcional para mi, sin embargo los otros son mas pequenos Lo recomiendo mucho ya que es ademas de las pocas opciones que no son multifuncional, ya contamos con impresoras para que querria otra mas? solo me harian gastar mas en toner y/o cartuchos de tinta

Utilisation quotidienne dans une pharmacie (100 feuilles scannées chaque jour). Il est parfait, rapide. Le scan recto verso se fait en une seule passe. Pas de bourrage. J'ai eu une panne du transformateur au bout de une année, et je l'ai remplacé par un transformateur plus costaud que j'avais dans le garage... Pour de la bureautique et du scan de courrier il est parfait! Pour scanner des photos il est un peu léger...

I wanted a document scanner but with option of a flatbed and this seems to tick the boxes. Pros: quick document feeder and good quality scans. Bundled OCR software. Cons: One touch buttons don’t work on MAC. Biggish footprint (as per flatbed)

Es muy rápido al escanear, la calidad es muy buena, caben varias hojas. La aplicación ayuda bastante al estar escaneando.

I make about 200 scans per month for my business & home use. I was hoping that the Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner would allow me to make my two existing Canon scanners redundant. The Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner is well packaged and protected in its shipment box, but none of the items in the box are marked as to their function; I.e. included in the box is a a4 sheet of plain paper wrapped in cellophane ??? . I later found out that this is for aligning the scanner and is critical for maintenance. When the DVD is inserted the installation of the scanner software is straight forwards. However some of the software is only available online and activation is required for the 3rd party software on the DVD. A Product key was shown during the scanner installation for the 3rd party software but I copied the number down wrong and I cannot find it again. (Photograph the number) The help on the enclosed DVD is their but it is not easy to find. However the help files are very useful when you find them. Within the scanner software there are help links and a help button, but these require an internet connection to operate and without a connection I cannot comment. At first sight the scanner appears well built and my only gripe’s with the scanner is the power light flashes once a second when in sleep mode; this is infuriating but sleep mode can be disabled. And the 24volt power supply lead from the plug to the scanner is only 1.5 meters long. The user interface software for the scanner is challenging to say the least. The Duplex Combo Scanner interface is over complex with the TWAIN menu having 60 buttons or sliders to choose from; frustrating is an understatement. It took me an hour to work out how to make multiple scans on the flatbed scanner into a single PDF file. The principle behind this user interface is speed. Once you have mastered the software and the scanner presets are setup for the job it can plough through documents at an alarming speed; i.e. a document containing five A4 double sided colour pages, from pressing the duplex button on the scanner to scanning and storing the file in the PC was 25 seconds. There are also nine presets that can be set up with each one able to configure its own colour, page size, dpi, and so on; however there in no facility to edit scans once they have been made; All rotation, cropping, colour adjustments have to be made before you start the scan. In comparison the Canon software can delete, rotate, crop, alter the page position, and then save to PDF or Jpg; and all after the scans have taken place. This makes the Canon better for individual tasks where the Xerox is better for larger quantities of work. Using the Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner for photographic work was disappointing as the scanner does not give a linear greyscale towards the white end of the spectrum, leaving photographs of clouds looking blotchy. I was very surprised when photographs went through the ADF without jamming. I would not recommend this scanner for a beginner or somebody who occasionally does a scan or two; but for an office or constant use where the software can be mastered the Xerox Duplex Combo Scanner it is a good scanner.