Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

What a disappointment. I am returning my scanner after realizing the software that comes with the ix1500 appears to be written completely differently than what I was using with the ix500. As someone else mentioned, it appears to be written by another team of programmers. I find it more cumbersome and not as user-friendly. I also didn't see anywhere where I could quickly include a scanned document into an email. That is one of the most important features of owning one of these so I could quickly pass on documents to others by email. I used to to this with a fax machine but who now owns a fax machine? But the number two reason I wouldn't recommend this to current ix500 users is the laborious process to import your old pdf library of scans into this machine's software environment. It was not an easy process and it took in excess of 24 hours of processing. In fact in my case it is still processing. I was thinking that the new software would immediately recognize my old ScanSnap file system. Not the case. It apparently has to one-by-one process the documents. If you are going to do this be sure to allow yourself one whole day of getting this thing up to speed. And then after that you will find the software appears to be a dumbing-down of what you were used to. Again, like someone else commented, this is not the ix500 upgrade you might have been anticipating. That is what I thought is was and was very disappointed. Now I have to go back and set up my ix500 and reinstall the old software. I just hope I can do this.