Better late than never: Ricoh/Fujitsu's ScanSnap Home app now for Apple Silicon
Manufacturer Ricoh, formerly Fujitsu, has published an update for its scanner software. It includes a long-awaited architectural change.
ScanSnap Home Updater: Finally native on M-Macs.
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Not for much longer, then it will no longer be possible to install a current macOS on Intel machines: With macOS 27, which is expected to be released in the fall, Apple is officially dropping x86 support. After that, it will still be possible to run Intel code via the Rosetta 2 translation layer, but that too will end a year later. It is therefore surprising that there are still major manufacturers today who have not adapted their apps natively for Apple Silicon machines (i.e., the only Apple architecture on the market). Until recently, this included, for example, the Steam app from Valve and - until this week - the official companion application for owners of the popular ScanSnap scanners from Ricoh, formerly Fujitsu.
Rosetta 2 no longer needs to be launched
This is now changing: As can be seen on the provider's website, ScanSnap Home for macOS in version 3.6.0 now finally works without the need to launch Rosetta 2. "Native operation on Mac computers with Apple Silicon has been enabled," states the Japanese company laconically. However, support for Intel machines appears to continue to exist; according to the release notes, it has not been dropped.
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The app, which is considered somewhat cumbersome anyway, should become a bit faster with the switch, for example, when starting up. Without it, ScanSnap scanners, of which there is a large selection nowadays, cannot be used correctly - except with special apps like Vuescan. ScanSnap Home encompasses the entire operation of the scanner, from the actual scanning process through the interface to OCR to conversion into other formats such as Word or Excel. Device settings and firmware updates are also carried out via the application.
Long documents, better text recognition
In addition to the Apple Silicon adaptation, ScanSnap Home for Mac also provides further improvements. With the iX2500, you can automatically convert images into searchable PDFs via Scan to network folders, and with this model and the iX2400, you can also capture long pages in one go (through a specific setting).
Improvements have also been made to short scans with automatic color detection, the office conversion function, which no longer fundamentally requires Abbyy Finereader, and with the iX2500, text contrast can be increased and show-through reduced when documents are to be stored in the cloud. Finally, Ricoh also claims to have made text recognition more accurate. ScanSnap Home is part of the purchase of a ScanSnap scanner.
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