Canon CanoScan LiDE 30 Scanner
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(4 out of 5)Excellent for scanning home photos, not that good for text.
The scanner is very slim and light, but it does have a feeling of solidity to it. It is fairly quiet as scanners go although you will certainly know when it is working. It produces excellent colour scans of pictures, and is brilliant for doing several pictures at once as it splits up the scanned images into individual files.
It probably is not the quickest scanner around for doing photos but it does the job well and is really good value in this area. The only thing it does not do very well is text, which is why I have only given it 4 stars. The supplied text recognition software does a middling job, but if you need to do a lot of text scanning then look elsewhere.
It comes with the USB cable, image capture and editing software, text recognition software, plus drivers and utilities, and you can get it up and running in a few minutes. It will work with both USB1 and USB2 so you should have no trouble there.
Overall then, if you want to do a lot of scanning of photos then this is really good value and looks like a bargain!
(5 out of 5)Excellent For Scanning Multiple Photos
Use this if you need to scan a lot of Photos, One touch on the button and it will scan, align and seperate the photos. It then saves them as seperate pictures.We use it for Family History reasearch, it is so quick when scanning lots of pictures.
(5 out of 5)Canon CanoScan LiDE 30 Scanner
Excellent quality scanning, user friendly software interface, good software features such as autocrop, straight forward instalation process, compact size, no additional power cable, well positioned quick scan buttons. Well done to Canon. This compares very favourably to an Epson 1250 I had which was a similar dpi specification but was more expensive, had an appalling "dogs breakfast" of a software interface and inadequate drivers. (Needless to say, avoid Epsons).
Excellent value, highly recommended.
(5 out of 5)Slick, stylish and easy to use
This slimline scanner is great. Powered by USB and not much bigger than a thick magazine (although obviously not as bendy) it produces superb results and in far higher resolution than I will ever need (I mainly use if for generating website graphics). My only complaint is that the "convinent" buttons on the front which launch various scanning applications ( quick scan , scan to email etc) are far to easy for my 2 year old son to reach causing havoc when I am working on something else.
(5 out of 5)The Ronseal Scanner
Not much to write about this product really - its a well built, excellent value for money scanner which does exactly what the manufacturer says. The case is slimline and its looks are well designed and fit in well with a modern stylish home.
The product was very easy to install - probably took 20 mins to get the first image scanned in.
The scanner makes a bit of noise while scanning, but unless you're scanning hundreds of items then this isn't really a problem.
I use the scanner to scan in photographs and graphical drawings - all of which are of an acceptable quality for presentation purposes.
I would definately recommend his scanner to any non-professional user.