At the scanner's right-hand edge, a five-line monochrome LCD, coupled with up and down arrows, lets you control many functions from the scanner itself. Ultrasonic feed detection helps secure against multi-feeds. It can handle sticky notes, receipts, and labels taped to the pages, and scan hard and embossed credit and ID cards up to 1.4mm thick. It has an 80-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) that holds letter- and legal-size documents and can scan documents up to 18.3 feet long. Its output tray curves upward to reduce noise and for easy paper capture. At 6.4 by 11.8 by 6.7 inches (HWD) and 9.3 pounds, and should be easy to find room for on a desk. The black and white fi-7160 is compact and light for a document scanner of its caliber.

It fell bit short of the Editors' Choice Epson WorkForce DS-860 Color Document Scanner in terms of scanning to both image and searchable PDF formats, however, and its OCR performance on our tests wasn't as good either. It has a solid set of features for improving scan reliability and quality. As a compact document scanner for small to midsize offices or workgroups, the Fujitsu fi-7160 ($1,195) provides very good scan speeds.

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