Scanners

Check out PCMag's latest hands-on reviews of Scanners.

  • How to Buy a Scanner

    Your choice of a scanner will largely depend on what you plan to scan with it and how often.

  • The 10 Best Scanners

    Our favorite scanners are good for scanning documents, slides, and everything in between.

  • Best Portable Scanners

    These portable scanners can scan and manage your receipts and business cards on the road.

  • Top 5 Photo Scanners

    Photos, slides, negatives, these photo scanners can do it all. Here are our five favorites.

Latest Reviews

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Review Date:04.19.2012

Bottom Line: The Plustek MobileOffice D412 is limited to manual feeding and needs to plug into two USB ports, but it offers duplex (two-sided) scans, and is reasonably portable.

Plustek MobileOffice D412
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Review Date:04.18.2012

Bottom Line: The Plustek MobileOffice S410 is limited to manual feeding and simplex (one-sided) scans, but it's light, low cost, and highly portable.

Plustek MobileOffice S410
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Review Date:03.29.2012

Bottom Line: The Xerox Mobile Scanner can scan without a computer, send files to your Android or iOS device with WiFi so you can see the scans, and automatically upload them elsewhere as well.

Xerox Mobile Scanner
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Review Date:03.29.2012

Bottom Line: The Epson WorkForce DS-30 portable scanner is limited to one-sided scans and a manual feed, but it's light, low-cost, and includes options to scan to the cloud.

Epson WorkForce DS-30
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Review Date:03.27.2012

Bottom Line: The PlanOn SlimScan SS100 is an attractive idea?a credit card size scanner for receipts and business cards?but the reality falls short of the promise.

PlanOn SlimScan SS100
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Review Date:02.24.2012

Bottom Line: Although big and heavy for a portable scanner, the Canon imageFormula P-215 Personal Document Scanner's fast speed, duplexing, and ADF make it well worth the extra size and weight.

Canon imageFormula P-215 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner

Preview Date:02.21.2012

Bottom Line: Not yet reviewed by PCMag Editors

Canon imageFormula DR-M160 Document Scanner
Editor Rating  

Review Date:02.17.2012

Bottom Line: The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 combines a reasonably portable size and weight with an automatic document feeder and the ability to scan both sides of a page at once.

Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300
Editor Rating  

Review Date:01.31.2012

Bottom Line: The Brother DS-700D is relatively big and heavy for a portable scanner, and it lacks an automatic document feeder (ADF), but it can scan both sides of a page at once.

Brother DS-700D
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Review Date:01.31.2012

Bottom Line: Despite treating the programs it comes with almost as an afterthought, the Canon imageFormula DR-C125 scanner delivers impressively fast and capable scanning on the desktop.

Canon imageFormula DR-C125

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