High Speed Duplex Scanning and Durability
The DS-6500 scans at impressive speeds of 25 ppm (simplex) and 50 ipm (1-pass duplex). The fast speed results in significant improvement in office productivity, as the DS-6500 is rated for a high daily duty cycle of 3,000 pages.

Reliable Performance and Convenient ADF
With its high capacity of 100-sheet ADF, it readily accepts a wide variety of standard or thin paper documents with a paper document size less than A6 (between 60 and 190 gsm) and all other sizes between 50 and 128 gsm. It is fitted with an ultrasonic sensor which prevents double-feeding and alerts you if there is a mis-feed. 

Easy File Management
The DS-6500 is bundled with professional software that allows you to easily manage your scanned files. 

For Windows users: Document Capture Pro
The software allows you to easily scan, view, edit, save and transfer scanned documents. It can optically recognises barcodes, characters and blank pages in scanned documents to separate sections into different folders.

It also provides quick access to post-scan destinations, including scan-to-print, email, Windows™ Public Folder, FTP Web Folder, and Scan-to-Cloud services such as Microsoft® SharePoint Server, Evernote®, and Google® Docs™. The software supports up to 30 customisable job settings.

The OCR software enables searchable content on your scanned PDFs for greater productivity. The languages supported are English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese only.

Optional Network Support
With the optional network interface panel, the DS-6500 can be shared amongst a work group through Ethernet. Users can easily select desired PC to scan to within the network via Document Capture Pro (for Windows platform users) or Epson Scan (for Mac platform users) application installed on client or server PC.

Fast and Flexible A4 Flatbed Scanning
The DS-6500 is equipped with a high resolution of 1200 dpi CCD sensor and fast scanning speed of 300 dpi that captures images, graphics, and text in clarity and accuracy. It has a flatbed scanner that allows you to quickly and easily scan A4-sized and wide-format documents such as maps, drawings, or large bound books and even odd-shaped articles. 

Powerful and Comprehensive Epson Scan2 Features
The Epson Scan2 suite of functions include numerous useful and innovative capabilities.

Save Time, Money and the Environment
The DS-6500 is Energy Star® certified as it comes with a power-saving sleep mode that reduces energy consumption. With its energy-saving LED light source that requires zero warm-up time, power consumption is greatly reduced and it is still able to provide instant responsive scanning.