Features:

• Duplex scanning at 50 images per minute
• Superior image quality and OCR accuracy
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface (USB 1.1 compatible)
• Small footprint fits easily on the desktop (6? x 13?)
• One Touch scans directly to PDF

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
The Xerox Visioneer DocuMate 252 is a sheetfed scanner. One touch scanning eliminates up to 12 steps in the scanning process.

Rating : - Very Weak Twain Driver on Vista
We use Adobe Acrobat Pro version 8 to scan documents and at the same time we have it perform automatic OCR all at once. Once scanned and OCR'd with Acrobat, if we need the actual text any time in the future we can 'save as' that document as a Word file. It's a system that works well for our office. So, when we needed another scanner to work with our new Vista machine, I read the reviews and the Xerox 252 came out on top.

Like others have said, this is a very nice scanner. The hardware seems really well made - it's sturdy and sounds like a solid piece of equipment in operation. The feeder works really well and in the four straight hours I tried to get this scanner to work directly with Adobe Acrobat in Windows Vista, it did not jam or double feed one single time. But there's the rub: on Windows Vista, the current twain driver (direct from Xerox's website) doesn't work at all with Adobe Acrobat 8. When you go to scan from within Acrobat, Acrobat completely crashes. (Photoshop can't find this scanner at all using the twain driver.) After Googling for answers and trying many, many things, it just doesn't appear that Xerox (or should I say Visioneer) has completed work on their Vista drivers for this scanner yet. This scanner does work just fine under Vista using the included Paperport software (which has some really great features - when you eventually find them in the non-standard taskbar interface), but this scanner should also work directly with other twain compliant applications like Acrobat Pro 8, but it doesn't at the moment. As a result of this, if you need a scanner for Vista that works directly with Acrobat, the Fujitsu 5120 we have works great directly with Acrobat under Vista (although I like the Xerox hardware better).