If you need to use a desktop scanner on a regular basis, you want it to be quick and easy to operate. It helps, too, if it's small and able to convert scanned documents into a ...

A compact sheetfed scanner, the ScanSnap S1500 is both quick and able to cope with a variety of documents from business cards upwards. It struggles with anything bigger than A4, but the bundled software makes it easy to both scan and convert documents ...

While the IT industry has made a virtue of producing ever more efficient all-in-one printers to appeal particularly to those on a tight budget, there will still always be a need in busy offices for a ...

A versatile, high quality and economical flatbed document scanner with simple controls, programmable shortcuts and an excellent range of software.

You can tell by the price tag that the imageFORMULA DR-3010C from Canon isn't your average desktop scanner. Indeed, at up to 30 double-sided pages per minute it's one of the quickest you can buy and, ...

With its ability to scan up to 30 double-sided originals per minute and handle up to 3,000 such documents every day, Canon's imageFORMULA DR-3010C is a good match for any high volume document management system, with a comprehensive bundle of top name ...

Most people have an old pile of negatives lying around from the heady days of film-based cameras. Some may even have the job of getting some duplicates made or turning them into photos, way down on ...

Veho's film scanner is certainly a fast and convenient solution, but you'll still have to spend some time editing your images to get them to the desired quality. If you're happy to do this, it's an effective way of getting your old photos onto a ...

The fi-6230 from Fujitsu differs from most other document scanners in that it's really two scanners in one. There's a sheet-fed scanner at the back to handle unbound documents, with a flatbed in front to handle ...

No, it's not a bird or a plane; it's two scanners in one, the fi-6230 incorporating both sheet-fed and flatbed scanners in one unit. A 50-page automatic feeder is built-in to handle high-volume work with TWAIN and ISIS drivers for use with document ...

Business scanners, designed for high speed conversion of paper documents to digital ones, can cost a lot, but Kodak's ScanMate i1120 comes in at under £400 which is comparatively inexpensive. The ScanMate is designed much like ...

The Kodak ScanMate i1120 is a good general-purpose, sheet-feed business scanner. Being able to scan both sides of a page at once can save a lot of time and duplex scanning isn't always standard with scanners in this price range. Barring a few mis ...

When Canon first introduced its LIDE flatbed scanners, they were the only devices on the market to be USB powered and ultra-slim. Then Xerox brought out its 7400 model, with a similar design to the LIDE. ...

This is a neat and effective scanner, with a good software bundle to support it. As a general-purpose scanner for home and small office, it's quick enough, has reasonable resolution and saves power, compared with most externally powered scanners. It's ...

The Dane-Elec Zpen is an interesting twist on traditional OCR devices and offers an easy way to take notes by hand and quickly transfer them to a computer. The package comes with a USB-compatible receiver and ...

Aside from suffering from some traditional weaknesses of handwriting recognition, namely that you need to write neatly and legibly to get accurate results, the Zpen is very effective and we can see it being useful for a range of purposes.

There are scanners designed to transfer your photo prints to JPEGs, scanners designed to convert your transparencies to TIFFs and scanners whose sole purpose in life is to help create electronic records of paper documents. Xerox's ...

The DocuMate 262i isn't cheap, but for a duplex, sheet-feed scanner with this speed, it's no more expensive than the competition. The quality of the supplied software raises the overall value of the product and if you regularly need to produce ...

Flatbed scanner mechanisms are best known as the top parts of all-in-one machines, but they do have lives of their own, too. Epson's GT-1500 is a business scanner, as opposed to one intended for the home ...

The GT-1500 is a versatile business scanner for the home office or small business. The first outing for Epson's LED light source proves effective and the scanning quality is good. It's easy to use and the scan-to-PDF facility for multi-page documents ...