Best Scanner to Go Paperless Using ScanSnap iX1500 (Part 4 of 10 Paper Clutter Series)

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Hello! I'm Alejandra Costello, professional organizing expert from Alejandra.tv! In this video I show you the best scanner to go paperless by scanning your documents, receipts, photos, and other small pieces of paper in your home or office using the ScanSnap iX1500!
This is part 4 of a 10 part paper clutter series on getting organized at home. You can watch the entire video series here: www.alejandra....
Thanks for watching and happy organizing :)
Alejandra
#organization #officeorganization #organizing

[@kathleencollins7406]

this is so crazy, I first started watching your videos when I was only 8 years old. Little 8 year old me wanted to reorganize my mom's kitchen. Here I am now 12 years latter, with my own kitchen... that I've never organized

[@melissacronecarvell]

So happy this video is sponsored 👑👑👑

[@HomeOrganizing]

Thank you Melissa for all of your support and cheering me on!! :) I was so happy to do this video, definitely a fan of the scanner for years!! :)

[@christinedenise7844]

Melissa Crone Carvell what’s wrong with that?

[@melissacronecarvell]

Christine Heater not one thing! I sincerely love it 😍

[@kuehnel16]

Love you

[@Claycat4]

Wow! That was fast scanning! That scanner is awesome! Thank you for demonstrating it!

[@HomeOrganizing]

You're welcome!

[@tvdavis]

ScanSnaps are awesome! I’ve gone through tons of scanners, and these had the easiest setup, best cross platform compatibility, speed and output quality.

[@HomeOrganizing]

Glad you've also had such a great experience with the scanner!!!

[@StaceyGemini]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the idea of the photo book for everything you saved from your wedding! I should do the same so I don't have all of these pieces of paper all over the place! LOVE it!!

[@GaelsMama]

Got my s1500 YEARS ago because of you! Still happy with it :)

[@kayleedavenport5052]

Could you do a video on how you organize with Evernote? Like how to use Evernote and the file structure you use?

[@bookkeepingllc]

Thank you for sharing! I appreciate that you demonstrated the functions as well as how you used it to achieve your own organized digital files and creative projects.

[@kerstins.8918]

You are such a great person, I love your videos and you have made a contribution to making my life less complicated and so much more organized. Thank you so much. Sending out lots of love to you

[@francescanoble2450]

Please do a how to organise your desktop/laptop video! Your screen looks so organised!!❤️

[@karenalexandre9778]

Great video, thanks for bringing up the topic of digital clutter! I hadn’t considered that 🧐

[@HomeOrganizing]

You're welcome! :)

[@amenaahmad9762]

hey alejandra loved the video as usual ! so happy you got a sponsorship for something you actually use and love , this just shows us even if something is an ad or paid promotion that we can completely trust you and your honest opinions ! i was wondering would you ever do a house tour of your new home and show how is it different from your last home ?

[@jackwilson2304]

Thanks. I learned a lot. I think I'm going to go with the Fujitsu iX1600.

[@robinmenier3311]

I just got my scanner and absolutely love it! I scanned about 200 business cards in less than a few minutes! My question is how do you set up the profiles? I'm about to scan a box full of cards and want to set up profiles for those, then recipe cards, etc. Have you done a video on that or could you tell me how to set those up? Love your videos!

[@abravegirl6613]

Love your videos and techniques. When I saw the title, I hoped you would include some information on how to set up an online filing system for scanned/saved docs/photos/etc. What are the best methods and file names to use for digital file storage? Year/title of item/etc? What is the best method for grouping together? Totally a whole video on it’s own.

[@HomeOrganizing]

All great questions! For sure a different video that is coming soon in this series!!! :)

[@teya_k]

What a brilliant scanner! I am in desperate need of a scanner, I will definitely check this one out Great video, like always😊

[@awyongleongsoo35]

Great Technology, Simple & Easy To scan into Digital Files, E-Photo, E-Documents in PC or Cell Phone without using or keeping any sizes of paper longer!

[@adelinaperezdelcastillo8472]

excellent information. Thank you

[@helens3230]

Ty! I went to that page to save it. I hope I can follow your course. I’m very nervous to throw out the wrong thing but all this stuff is too much and need to find the things I need. Bless you for trying to help us out here♥️✌️

[@HomeOrganizing]

Oh good! It can be hard to make a decision to let go of a certain document with the uncertainty of needing it some day. Let us know if we can give you more information about the mini-course! Thank you for being here, Helen! Fun to chat in the premiere with you!

[@lovingvibesds4262]

Love the idea about making a photo book of your trip using receipts and notes....I have saved my Europe trips mementos and wondered how I can utilize it for memories.....scan and put in a photo book. Thanks!!!!

[@angielilliank.1109]

Loved this review. Thank you. I would love to know what computers and handhelds you recommend. Meaning, tablets, laptops, phones, etc.

[@HomeOrganizing]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Maybe I can nudge my husband into doing a video like this - he is our resident tech guy! :)

[@angielilliank.1109]

Home Organizing by Alejandra.tv Great! Thanks so much for considering, Alejandra. I have a lot of Costco credit and need a new computer badly, but clueless about technological stuff.

[@Mathisontanner]

I need to purchase a laptop and love technology but not really sure what to buy. I am retired so I don’t need a top of the line computer, so budget friendly would be good. I’ve been following you for several years💜.

[@xsApollo]

Many thanks for your videos, they are amazing!

[@kimberlyk7081]

Do ever an issue with stores wanting original receipts. I always fear shredding receipts for that reason. I hate paper clutter and would love this. I have had your program for years now and love it. Thx for all your tips and tricks.

[@HomeOrganizing]

You are welcome!! I primarily keep my receipts hard-copy, however, this year (b/c of this scanner) I'm going to do my best and keep some of them digitally and see how it goes for me. It really is more efficient. I did ask a couple stores if they accept digital receipts and they said yes!! I called Target and asked at Home Goods! :)

[@shannonflynn5507]

Wow! I’m definitely getting one of these😃 thank you for the video great job 👍🏻

[@evie7845]

Great video!!! I Love that book you made your husband!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@alongthecalmwaters]

Alejandra can you please do a video on how you organize cameras, camera gear, microphones anything for video shooting/photography

[@carlakeehn5411]

Alejandra, Thank you for this excellent tutorial!

[@millytorres9777]

Thank you for making organizing so much fun. I love it😍

[@darlenecuker9711]

This was helpful. Thank you! I like the features, just what I was looking for.

[@RitchLife2019]

Hi, I love your videos! I recently started using Google photos and Amazon photo storage but I cannot seem to figure out a way of organizing things in the cloud so that I can easily find or access them. I'm very new to the cloud and would be very interested in seeing videos demonstrating how to organize your photos and documents in the cloud so you can easily access and find them and just a general overview of how it stores your information and is set up. Thanks for another great video!

[@pamelabakst9759]

This looks amazing but I’m not sure I want to make the commitment to a $400 scanner. I am in my late 60’s and LOVE your videos. I’m reasonably tech savvy but this seems like an awful lot of money. Is there anything you could recommend that is a few notches down in price but still gets the job done?

[@emmcguire94]

You can get apps for your phone that scan documents and photos beautifully

[@HomeOrganizing]

Yes! Lots of ways to scan so you can increase storage space and efficiency!

[@cslej1676]

I spent half of yesterday trying to scan documents to send to a mortgage company. There were bank statements, tax returns, etc. I tried first with Adobe Scan on my iPad Pro. It is not a perfect process especially if you don’t do it often, and I ended up just taking photos of each page. My printer is a scanner but so slow. This thing seems like the answer!

[@RitchLife2019]

Is there a particular app you would recommend? Very interested in this!

[@emmcguire94]

Charlotte Ann I use the hp smart app and it is high quality, quick, auto detects documents and I can upload directly to google drive. Cam scanner is another popular scanning app

[@piyumaniranasinghe8646]

Camscanner app works really well on the phone. Its cheap and don't have to buy a seperate machine for scanning.

[@joar1319]

Nice video. I have the ix100 which is also great and I dont want to miss.

[@pm-r6136]

Wow nice!! That would be great for teachers!!!

[@imbonnie]

I love the Scansnap ix500. It cost $400 but was worth it. It's fast, dual scans, ocr's docs to make docs text searchable, automatically orientates pages, easy to scan receipts, can scan from phone or other mobile device, easy to unjam by pulling a lever, it's small and compact, lightweight, can scan long pages or receipts. I have the older model like the one on her left. I like mine with no touch screen because it's simple. I recommend this scanner to everyone. It made my life a lot easier and helped me get almost completely paperless. If you need to scan double sided docs, manuals, booklets etc this makes it go very fast.

[@therambun79]

Can it scan photos? Will you recommended this one or another one? Thanks.

[@olivialovejesus]

Nice scanner! I was hoping there was going to be a discount promo code at the end!

[@Shevan08]

So you can't scan anything slightly bigger than 8.5x11?

[@springchikn3203]

I bought an earlier model of this scanner a few years ago. I hesitated because it seemed expensive, but it turned out to be one of the best investments I have ever made.

[@ohheyalan123]

I’m looking to upgrade from my S1500 I bought back in 2012. Still works but would like the cloud feature. Scansnap is life changing! Especially when it comes tax time and your CPA wants paperwork!

[@ValBrennan1]

Thanks for the review. I love the idea of having a scanner that handle both documents and photos... Does it really do a good job with the photos? How many photos can you scan at once? If you put in a stack of photos, do they all need to be the same size? What is the resolution? Thanks!

[@alextorresphoto]

Gracias Alejandra

[@sarahhancock848]

Well I'm sold! My birthday is in 2 weeks and I'm asking for this scanner.😄

[@HomeOrganizing]

What a fun birthday present! Happy early birthday!

[@Organizatonworks]

Great video. Just curious, do you discard all of the items you scan? I have such a hard time letting go, so I would value your input.

[@StevenPenny]

It probably won't affect too many other people but the restriction of 30 profiles is a problem if you have multiple issues. If you have 5 profiles for different things, you can only have 6 people that can use it unless you constantly delete and recreate profiles. They really need to fix this, its a major issue that wasn't present on the ix500.

[@speakthetruth54]

If we use this for quick books does it go straight to the specific section . Eg if I scan a bill does it go straight to vendor

[@lyndahamm9649]

Hi Alejandra. So glad I found your channel, your tips have really helped me get organized. Unless I missed it I'd really like some tips on organizing my car..weird? Thank you and plz keep the videos coming

[@elsa5552]

Lynda Hamm there is a video about organizing the car, it’s not recent but it’s beautifully done!

[@HarisKhan-ly8xo]

Good And Best .

[@itsmeamanda01]

This is really tempting! How easy is Evernote to setup??

[@HomeOrganizing]

SUPER EASY! I did it on my own easily. Setup wifi, enter in your evernote info, and it connects. Then just configure the settings to your liking. I feel like the hardest part with any equipment, software, is just familiarizing yourself. I always give myself time (20 min) to just get familiar - no expectations but to just learn. Once I'm familiar, it's fast and simple!

[@MartinZ915]

Question, can I setup profiles to my home network drives ? So I wouldn’t necessarily turn on my pc when I start scanning? Or let’s say I only connect a usb drive to the scanner and all profiles are setup to upload there? Is this doable ?

[@pamelabakst9759]

You mentioned “digital clutter.” Do you keep your (small) purchase receipts (ie-Costco, grocery store, drugstore, etc.) permanently or do you eventually purge, so has not to have things in there that you really will never need again?

[@TheGhostplanner]

And now, the iX500 is no longer supported. A flagship model sold until recently. This makes it really hard to choose Fujitsu again!

[@cristyleigh]

Do you have suggestions on classroom organization? Organizing children’s books?

[@rebelliarosetm2008]

How often are items stuck or damaged??

[@Omron467]

Hammer Frau!

[@gladperez]

Appreciate you showing everything the scanner can scan but you didn’t show how you can set up profiles.

[@NikNik0123]

Where was your gorgeous office furniture purchased?

[@sueperry8704]

Where do you find all the things you scanned? do you have a designated folder?

[@dorothydrew7974]

Is there a way to scan a magazine article or pages from a book? Thanks

[@OndrejPopp]

12:00 shredding it after you have scanned it in, but then your hard drive crashed... 😃🙇🙇‍♀️

[@zahraalohaid4716]

Hello dear, can you do an organization video about ( playroom toys organization) ? Thank you

[@CourtneyBerry]

Has anyone who has purchased this used the searching for a word for grocery receipts? I wonder because some are abbreviated on receipts if it'll register them. As an example, if you were to search for "peppers" but on the receipt its shortened to pprs or something ridiculous lol. Would it still be smart enough to pull them up?

[@28maganda]

Hi Alejandra can you tell me where you got your desk please,.Great video!, thank you !

[@alexiaptineo]

Truly Robinson her desk is from pottery barn

[@janeannswim1386]

I'm so torn between this amazing scanner (iX1500) or a locally available S1500 for 1/3 of the price. Does anyone have any thoughts- I love the cloud feature- will I regret buying the S1500?!! thoughts anyone?

[@anilkumar1971]

Which iPhone app you used to see the scanned documents on your phone?

[@elenaiglesias7779]

Thank you Alejandra for this great video, I love your uber organized office :) How can I insert pages to scanned document? Its grayed out on the edit tab :/

[@Caliseajammer]

Thank you for your review! I've been considering this purchase for quite sometime, but had questions most of which you answered. **Question: do I need to purchase any special software to use with the scanner? I saw you scanned directly to MS Word, however I have seen this scanner bundled with a license for a program called Neat. Did you use Neat or is MS Office and Evernote (or other similar app, I use Dropbox) all I need? I would be scanning and saving primarily to an external drive, but love your idea for scanning receipts and making them searchable and accessible via Evernote to have them accessible on the go!

[@HomeOrganizing]

No special software is needed - it comes loaded with ScanSnap Home (their software for organizing your files). I did not use Neat. MS Office is all you need if you are scanning there to recover a doc. You can also scan in an excel and PowerPoint file for doc recovery and it will recognize the text. It can scan directly to Dropbox without a computer or device! When you scan to your desktop, you can select and save your settings to always scan to a certain folder! For example, photos can always be scanned to the same folder while business cards can be scanned and saved to a different folder. The profiles are really fun to setup and configure!! :)

[@marksoberay2318]

Love the channel but here i dont agree,. I'm huge into scanning and the Czur or other above type scanners are superior because they can easily do paper, binded books even objects.

[@michaellabista8030]

Can it scan back to back at the same time?

[@DigitalDestiny]

The ix1500 is a decent scanner, (compared to 99% of scanners on the market) but once to upgrade to a Raven Pro, you'll NEVER go back.

[@drkomd1]

Does this scan insurance cards or driver's license?

[@betoncoly]

I give 2 💩 about the scanner, I’m just mesmerized by you 🤤😍

[@pamelabakst9759]

Why do you think there are so many NEGATIVE reviews on Amazon....way more than positive ones?? I’m reasonably tech savvy but certainly no tech genius and I’m concerned this is not user friendly. I trust your choices but it’s an expensive purchase and I want to research it enough to be sure it makes sense for me.

[@carolgenovese5647]

Thank you! Can the photos be sent to “Photo” on Apple devices or documents to Pages? I’m a bit confused about this. Thank you so much.

[@HomeOrganizing]

Hmm, I'm not sure... I'd have to play around with the settings and I'm not near the scanner right now! I believe you can because you can scan to any folder on your desktop... I'd imagine its the same for devices. You can scan to 16 different cloud services (google drive/photo, dropbox, evernote, and others) if you use any for photos...

[@carolgenovese5647]

Home Organizing by Alejandra.tv The scanner is very fast and being able to use “Photos” and “Pages Documents” would be ideal for me! Thanks again.

[@beautifulvervecua8483]

HI Alejandra, I was considering to purchase a scanner but was unsure which one. Love the receipt feature now I don't have to keep a whole month's worth in my wallet. Thank you for demonstrating. Question, can it scan double side?

[@Deborahs.6992]

beautifulverv Ecua She did say it can scan double side when talking about scanning greeting cards and letters.

[@rennakanote]

can i scan my pokemon cards?

[@sriyukta5732]

Well but I use the Adobe scan app in my phone is the best this it's the same

[@PennyMachineMan]

LOL "...Nice white color"...

[@mattheww3116]

Hi

[@4loveofshopping]

looks like Pottery Barn

[@mattheww3116]

@@4loveofshopping Thankyou!

[@ellierice1414]

I like your video I love you too Ellie Rice 28 years old

[@Nordikelle]

What a out PDF

[@Viv8ldi]

Its so expensive, its 450 bucks on amazon

[@MrNisty]

4:49 that’s what she said

[@TheMrBennito]

I hate this scanner. Problems to install, problems to send directly to folder. A true disaster, my old Epson was simple and straightforward

[@HomeOrganizing]

This is the scanner! amzn.to/3aPkt47 (noting that this is an affiliate link!)

[@ikezilaw]

Digital clutter is bad.

[@sellyourhomenowbook]

I run a 501 c3 charity a non profit I could really use your help to organize my research papers medical docs complaints (we are a patirnt advocacy org.)

[@KayGee4319]

This scanner is so awesome, thanks for your honest review. My fav feature is scanning to Word. I DESPISE having to retype resumes if I accidentally give away my only copy.

[@HomeOrganizing]

You're welcome! That's definitely one of my favorite features as well!!! You can also scan to excel and powerpoint as well and it will recognize the text :)

[@dorisamanze862]

@@HomeOrganizing Hello please i watched this video and had challenges scanning to word. After i saved the docs on my computer i right clicked and there was no option to send to word. I saw the ff options when i clicked send to (Bluetooth device, compressed (zipped)folder, Desktop, Documents, fax recipient, Mail recipient, DVD RW Drive (D). These are all i saw. i didnt see send to word. please advice. Thank you

[@4loveofshopping]

The scanner should have paper guides on the sides so that the sheets of paper are not shuffled out of order as they scan through and land on the paper catcher. Also, to eliminate to the possibility of having the papers fall on the floor.

[@huronautodetailing]

The amazon reviews aren't looking that great for this scanner. Bummed about that. I need something like this. Tried NEAT but I don't like proprietary software, it just adds unnecessary steps.

[@nicemusic4evryone]

I've been excited for the new video the entire week! You totally nailed it once more 😍 you're my inspiration and I use almost all your organizing systems in my apartment Thank you so much

[@devanspencer9362]

So happy you are back! You helped me get, and stay, organized in every new place I've moved into!

[@soffyabad]

Great vídeo Alejandra, thank you!

[@HomeOrganizing]

Thank you! :)

[@valariecienega]

If you are scanning multiple documents, can you set it up where they are saved individually?

[@vikaspell]

Is there an option to scan directly to a network folder silently... what i mean is if i put 40 documents and i want the file to be saved as a pdf in a defined folder like scan1 ... scan2 .... without any prompt on the system. so that i can go back later and rename them when i have the time. i dont want the home application to popup.

[@moderateskeptic]

For everyone who has $400 for a scanner... doesn’t seem very budget friendly. Also worth considering the risk of having very personal info stolen because you scanned your life into a computer and got hacked.

[@Sophia8983]

Thank you so much for that information I've been wanting to buy one of those scanners.

[@manuelabrieden2908]

You could be hacked without the scanner, too. It also saves time and money and space. And in a few years it has amortisized. 💰👍

[@MrFunkadeIic]

I don't need one, thanks. But I watched the entire video at 2:25am.

[@pauletteb.9652]

Glad to see you!

[@HomeOrganizing]

Thank you! Fun to chat with you!