Monday, May 14, 2012

Epson WorkForce Pro GT S50 Assessments

By Loma Mcthige


The epson workforce pro gt s50 from Epson is a desktop document scanner. It features a 75-sheet automatic document feeder and scans each sides of a sheet of paper in one pass, at resolutions up to 600 dpi and 24-bit color.

The GT-S50 is a little bigger than most desktop document scanners, but not terribly so. It is also the only document scanner we've tested with an LED status menu, which may be useful when difficulty shooting or using presets. Your Mac connects towards the GT-S50 through USB 2.0

Physically, the GT-S50 (which comes having a standard one-year warranty) is typical for document scanners in its price range. It measures 8.4 by 11.9 by 8.0 inches (HWD) with the input and output trays closed, or 15.9 by 11.9 by 15 inches using the trays extended. Setup is typical also. Set the scanner in place, open the leading cover (which turns in to the input tray), extend the output tray at the bottom front, install the software program, and plug in a USB cable and power cord.

Epson also earns praise for putting a 16-character LCD menu on the front panel. Most document scanners consist of a scan button, a one-character display, and one or much more buttons for moving via the numbers 1 via 9 on the display. You can define scan profiles (with the resolution, color mode, and where to send the scan for instance), attach every profile to a number, after which pick the number prior to hitting the scan button. The problem with this regular approach is that you need to keep in mind which scan profile goes with each number. Epson lets you add a description to the profile, and shows it on the LCD menu, making it a lot simpler to select the proper profile.

The GT-S50 handles text recognition reasonably nicely. In my tests using FineReader, it read each Arial and Occasions New Roman fonts at sizes as small as 10 points without a mistake. I ran into some problems with BizCard, however. As installed, the program is set to read one company card at a time, which indicates you can't scan a stack of cards at once-another case of Epson stubbing its toe on a software program problem. After I changed the setting, the program scanned stacks of cards, but additionally showed repeated error messages, even though everything worked.




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