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The daily review of my RSS feeds indicated good news with regard to Snow Leopard support for the Fujitsu ScanSnap: a new driver has been made available and may be downloaded here for all models.The update was promised to be available by the end of November – an earlier release date is great news for those who have held off on the Snow Leopard upgrade to ensure their scanners will still function as intended.

I downloaded the update and did a final check for any new software updates for Leopard. With nothing new to install, I plugged the Snow Leopard Install DVD into the iMac’s optical drive and allowed the upgrade to 10.6 proceed. As a check before the upgrade, the internal hard drive had about 409GB free space remaining. Less than one hour later, the iMac had rebooted twice and Snow Leopard had been successfully installed. About 40GB of disk space had been freed up during the upgrade and a cursory check indicated that most everything seemed to be working. I shutdown the ScanSnap Manager and installed the update: I’m happy to report that the direct scanning function with the Save to File option works as it did before on Leopard.

Last task: to apply the combo update 10.6.2.

Update: since I use the S300M and am not fussed about any of the OCR features provided by FineReader, I neglected to indicate that full OCR support is still not available on Snow Leopard. If you require this, check this link to be notified once FineReader has been readied for Snow Leopard.