Scanners

Bottom Line: The networkable Epson WorkForce DS-780N scans relatively quickly and accurately, and it has a huge customizable color touch screen, but it's overshadowed by some less costly competition.

3 expert reviews

Keenly priced for SMBs with loads of physical documents to scan, the ADS-3600W from Brother is equipped with most, if not all, the features a small business might want.

3 expert reviews

Fujitsu's ScanSnap S1100 is a scanner small enough to carry with your laptop and be powered by it, but still be capable of scanning PDFs and colour photos.

32 expert reviews | 615 user reviews

Canon's latest offers high specs for a portable sheet-feed scanner, including duplex scanning.

14 expert reviews | 495 user reviews

Conclusion If you don't need to scan over a network or scan to a mobile device, consider the Canon DR-C225, which costs significantly less and offers all the same features as the Canon imageFormula DR-C225W except for Wi-Fi. If you need Wi-Fi, however,...

5 expert reviews | 139 user reviews

This Epson scanner provides an excellent springboard for a photo-heavy workload with the occasional slide or negative thrown in. It is affordable, produces quality scans and has a decent array of applications. It is bulky, though, and the optional...

5 expert reviews | 1412 user reviews

The 4490's a great compromise buy, blending performance with affordability

60 expert reviews | 1083 user reviews

The SV600 isn't perhaps a mainstream product - it's too pricey for that. However, the sheer range of materials it can scan, and the quality with which it can scan them, makes it an outstanding product in its field. If you work in an environment where...

15 expert reviews | 77 user reviews

When combined with the bundled SilverFast software or the downloadable Epson Scan 2, you can scan multiple items at the same time, and each one becomes a separate file. At nearly all resolutions, and even the default settings, scans of graphics and...

2 expert reviews

Conclusion If you're looking for a scanner primarily for photographic prints, any one of these four scanners—the Canon 120, the Canon 220, the Epson V19, or the Epson Perfection V39—is worth considering, with the Canon 120's low price making it the...

5 expert reviews | 263 user reviews

Bottom Line: Fast and accurate for OCR work, the network-ready Panasonic KV-S1057C-MKII is a solid sheet-feed document scanner, but its software bundle needs bulking up if your business doesn't have a document-archiving back end in place.

2 expert reviews

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...

19 expert reviews | 3135 user reviews

An excellent step up from the budget scanners, with a range of film and slide adaptors

20 expert reviews | 602 user reviews

Conclusion The Fujitsu fi-7160 is a capable document scanner, and has a slew of features to help improve scan quality. It is well worth considering by a small to midsize business or busy workgroup looking for a scanner that can scan documents quickly...

2 expert reviews | 173 user reviews

Can this portable sheet-feed scanner put in a premium performance away from home?

10 expert reviews | 214 user reviews

Bottom Line: The HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow N9120 fn2 Document Scanner offers an excellent mix of features and performance for offices that do a high volume of scanning.

3 expert reviews | 2 user reviews

What price is a 'proper' photo scanner? With the launch of Epson's new budget model, it could be cheaper than you think…

27 expert reviews | 1623 user reviews

We'd recommend the LiDE 220, but only if you really need its high resolution and extra bit-depth. If not, a cheaper scanner would do, or for the same money you could buy a mid-range multifunction peripheral and get prints and copies thrown in.

8 expert reviews | 1536 user reviews

A tiny powerhouse of document workflow technology, the DS-560 delivers wholesale scanning for those businesses ready to embrace it.

2 expert reviews | 50 user reviews

A convincing, keenly priced sheet-fed document scanner, but it's not the best

8 expert reviews | 866 user reviews

If you want a portable PC-free scanner with Wi-Fi, but don't want a wand scanner, be sure to take a look at the Visioneer Mobility, our Editors' Choice pick for a PC-free manual-feed scanner. If you want a wand scanner, however, the Wi-Fi support in...

7 expert reviews | 884 user reviews

The Brother ImageCenter ADS-2000e created and saved searchable PDFs a bit slower than both the Canon DR-C225 and the Fujitsu iX500, but it also costs less. And it allows you to scan to flash memory via a built-in USB port. Unlike the Fujitsu model,...

2 expert reviews | 10 user reviews

This is a very versatile, sheet-feed scanner for general office use. Although it appears expensive if you're more used to looking at flatbed devices, its key features are scan speed, its dual scan heads, which enable duplex scanning, and the excellent...

4 expert reviews | 7 user reviews

A professional unit for any office that has demanding document scanning needs

4 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

Epson has been pushing dedicated film scanner, scan quality for some years and now, with the V700 the results are certainly better than most dedicated film scanners. When you realise this scanner is under £400 (around £399 actually), and it is better...

10 expert reviews | 173 user reviews