Will this meet your scanning needs?

Great image quality, compact, fantastic driver software

Average OCR and dust and scratch removal performance

A compact and versatile scanner with film scanning attachment that gives great image quality. The Canon can be used vertically too for some reason

Can this compete against a flatbed?

Compact, quick to use

Limited use

It has limited functions but the scan functions are more than acceptable for scanning on the move

Is this the best scanner around?

Excellent scan quality, excellent range of scanning tools, good software bundle, easy to use, well made

Plastic film holders are flimsy

The Epson Perfection V750 Pro follows from Epson's V700 model offering an even more complete professional package

Is this the answer to digitising your business card collection>

Small, light and easy to set-up

Limited use

With support for 13 languages and easy synchronisation with most PIM software this is a likeable, if limited, device

Will this help you scan in your negatives?

Ease of use, optical resolution, great scans and software package, Auto frame detection

Slow on very high resolution scans ; price makes more versatile flatbed scanner or All in One device options attractive

Basic, budget, dedicated and compact film scanner that provides great software tools and good quality scans although the one-by-one scanning won't be to everyone's liking

- The 4400F comes packed with easy to use features and plenty of scanning kit to help make the job easier and faster. The silver, grey and black livery looks nice and the swooping curves across the "advanced" Z-lid that also features the built in FAU ...

Design, price, scan quality, QARE, bundled software

Flimsy and awkward to use FAU attachment, glass mounted 35mm slides not usable in FAU

The CanoScan 4400F is a versatile and simple to use flatbed scanner and certainly worth a closer look

- Canon's latest Contact Image Sensor LiDE scanner is the 600F, which updates the preceding model, the 500F. It brings to the LiDE range 48-bit colour and 4800 x 9600ppi scanning for the first time and so offers a tempting set of features for those in ...

Design, price, scan quality, FARE, software

Bulky and awkward to use FAU attachment, mounted 35mm slides not supported by FAU

It's stylishly slim contours and pleasing to look at and it's not a bad performer either

- You might not think that a business card scanner is for you, after all they are usually rather bulky, rather expensive and unless you are a business person travelling around and shaking hands with suits then you won't have anything to scan in the ...

Size and value

Performance

The cheapest and smallest business card scanner we have ever seen, but what compromises must be made to save that money?

- Canon's CanoScan 8600F is an attractive A4 scanner with built-in Film Adapter Unit, erm ... film scanning hood. The silver liveried scanner has a black strip across the top plate, a top plate that houses the FAU and seven EX Buttons, providing fast, ...

Ease of use, optical resolution, FARE Level 3 processing, great scans, and software package

Slow on higher resolution scans that include the full FARE processing

The CanoScan 8600F is a fast A4 scanner with built-in Film Adapter Unit (FAU) that can provide pro quality scans quickly and easily. An excellent bundled software package makes it an even more attractive proposition

- The Scanjet 8200 is more business scanning machine than strictly a photo scanner, you can even buy it with an additional automatic document feeder, by having said that it can scan A4 documents on the A4 plate, negatives (four frames on a strip) and ...

Auto sharpening, colour restoration, scratch/dust removal processing and the like

The auto crop before scan doesn't get things right and can even give a horizontal crop to a vertical image! Dust removal software works but is not capable of dealing with dirty originals and the auto scaling/resolution settings don't allow enough ...

The Scanjet 8200 is more business-scanning machine than strictly a photo scanner