User Manual Epson ES-500W Wireless Color Duplex Document Scanner

No, you will need to initiate the scan and save the scanned document from your computer. Although it is wireless, it is not a stand-alone scanning solution.

It has a total of 10 feed rollers. My review has a photo of the paper feed system showing 8 of the rollers. They are accessible for cleaning but I haven't seen a listing for replacement rollers. I discuss feed rollers in my review comparing it to the Xerox competitive model which includes spare rollers and they also list replacements for sale. Good question and an important one that many people who are new to document scanners neglect to ask.

I was one of the first users of PaperPort and have used it and several other brands of document management software over 20+ years. What those companies are selling is essentially unchanged from their earliest versions. None of them are "smart". These days I far prefer to scan directly to a folder on my computer. The search and find and sorting capabilities of modern computers make document management software unnecessary. Whether you use third-party software or not YOU are the one who has to manually rename every document you scan, none of the document management software is smart enough to know hiw tomdo that, and proper file naming is 100% of the key to being able to search and sort. That takes a lot of ore-thinking and planning on your oart before you ever begin a scanning ritual in your hime or office.

You can scan to specific folders and save settings and destinations in presets. So if you have a google drive folder set up that updates and syncs to google drive like I do than yes, it will scan to google drive. That’s how I do it.

No, the ES-400 is a USB connected scanner. Scanning to cloud services such as Dropbox is accomplished through the ScanSmart software that runs on the computer. ScanSmart provides a simple workflow for scanning and sending the documents to the cloud account. The Epson ES-500W is the wireless version of the ES-400 and it also uses ScanSmart on the computer to send items to cloud services.

Yes, you can scan state issued ids and insurance cards in their original format. The PROBLEM is when someone has laminated something like their Medicare card. It doesn’t scan those. They won’t feed through. We have an older scanner we use for those.

This is more of a business grade scanner than the Neat from top to bottom. I have a true paperless setup, I scan 99% of all of my documents (bills, receipts, instruction manuals, etc) the first time I handle them then shred the originals. The only thing I don't shred are legal documens but I still scan them. I have a routine that every month I make an offsite backup copy and every year I make an additional archive copy. I've scanned thousands of documents (more than moderate use) and the scanner has performed flawlessly. BTW this is my third scanner of this style, my first Epson.