Tested: The Best Scanners
Whether you need to scan multi-page financial reports, stacks of business cards, or old family photos, there's a scanner designed for the job.
Whether you need to scan multi-page financial reports, stacks of business cards, or old family photos, there's a scanner designed for the job.
Snapshots, slides, negatives, these photo scanners can do it all. Here are our top performers, along with tips for finding the right one.
Bottom Line: The top-of-the-line Alaris S2080w Scanner is fast, accurate, and feature-packed, but its high price makes it tough to recommend over its less-expensive, also-capable sibling.
Bottom Line: The top-of-the-line Alaris S2080w Scanner is fast, accurate, and feature-packed, but its high price makes it tough to recommend over its less-expensive, also-capable sibling.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2060w Scanner is reasonably fast and highly accurate, and it comes with an impressive software bundle, making it a good fit for medium- to heavy-volume workloads.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2060w Scanner is reasonably fast and highly accurate, and it comes with an impressive software bundle, making it a good fit for medium- to heavy-volume workloads.
Bottom Line: The Epson WorkForce DS-575W scans reasonably quickly and accurately, making it a good choice for small offices that need a document scanner with a simple feature set.
Bottom Line: The Epson WorkForce DS-575W scans reasonably quickly and accurately, making it a good choice for small offices that need a document scanner with a simple feature set.
Bottom Line: The CZUR ET16 Plus is fast and inexpensive for a book scanner, and offers the added bonus of working with a variety of other materials.
Bottom Line: The CZUR ET16 Plus is fast and inexpensive for a book scanner, and offers the added bonus of working with a variety of other materials.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2050 Scanner combines solid performance with a host of workflow, convenience, and image-processing features, plus an updated software package.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2050 Scanner combines solid performance with a host of workflow, convenience, and image-processing features, plus an updated software package.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2070 Scanner by Kodak Alaris is reasonably fast and highly accurate, if not a bit expensive compared with like-priced competitors.
Bottom Line: The Alaris S2070 Scanner by Kodak Alaris is reasonably fast and highly accurate, if not a bit expensive compared with like-priced competitors.
Bottom Line: The Brother ADS-2200 is a basic desktop document scanner with solid OCR performance and speed, although getting the most out of it may require tweaking some settings.
Bottom Line: The Brother ADS-2200 is a basic desktop document scanner with solid OCR performance and speed, although getting the most out of it may require tweaking some settings.
Bottom Line: The networkable Epson 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.
Bottom Line: The networkable Epson 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.
Bottom Line: Brother's ADS-2700W is a fast, highly accurate document scanner that comes with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and numerous mobile and cloud connectivity options for a very reasonable price.
Bottom Line: Brother's ADS-2700W is a fast, highly accurate document scanner that comes with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and numerous mobile and cloud connectivity options for a very reasonable price.
Bottom Line: The Kodak i3300 is a fast, high-volume document scanner, and it comes with excellent full-featured scanning and processing software at a competitive price.
Bottom Line: The Kodak i3300 is a fast, high-volume document scanner, and it comes with excellent full-featured scanning and processing software at a competitive price.
Bottom Line: The Epson Expression 12000XL-PH is a large, tabloid-size graphics arts and photograph scanner that is compatible with a large array of media and produces excellent output.
Bottom Line: The Epson Expression 12000XL-PH is a large, tabloid-size graphics arts and photograph scanner that is compatible with a large array of media and produces excellent output.
Bottom Line: A remarkably fast workhorse document scanner, the Visioneer Patriot H80 is quicker and more accurate than most of its competitors, including its slightly lower-rated, less-expensive Patriot H60 sibling—but not enough to justify a hefty price difference.
Bottom Line: A remarkably fast workhorse document scanner, the Visioneer Patriot H80 is quicker and more accurate than most of its competitors, including its slightly lower-rated, less-expensive Patriot H60 sibling—but not enough to justify a hefty price difference.
Bottom Line: The Xerox Duplex Travel Scanner may be a bit sluggish, but it scans two-sided pages in a single pass, and it's highly accurate, making it a terrific choice for low-volume scanning on the road.
Bottom Line: The Xerox Duplex Travel Scanner may be a bit sluggish, but it scans two-sided pages in a single pass, and it's highly accurate, making it a terrific choice for low-volume scanning on the road.
Bottom Line: The Visioneer Patriot H60 scans quickly and accurately, and it has a huge daily duty cycle and a comprehensive software bundle.
Bottom Line: The Visioneer Patriot H60 scans quickly and accurately, and it has a huge daily duty cycle and a comprehensive software bundle.
Bottom Line: The Kodak ScanMate i1150WN is a bit slow for the price, but this scanner comes with numerous network and other connectivity options and terrific software, and OCR accuracy is above average.
Bottom Line: The Kodak ScanMate i1150WN is a bit slow for the price, but this scanner comes with numerous network and other connectivity options and terrific software, and OCR accuracy is above average.
Bottom Line: If you're not in a hurry, the highly portable Apparent Doxie Q scans accurately and without a PC, although the software is somewhat antiquated.
Bottom Line: If you're not in a hurry, the highly portable Apparent Doxie Q scans accurately and without a PC, although the software is somewhat antiquated.
Bottom Line: For well under the cost of several similarly rated document scanners, the Xerox DocuMate 6440 scans more than fast enough for the price and it's highly accurate.
Bottom Line: For well under the cost of several similarly rated document scanners, the Xerox DocuMate 6440 scans more than fast enough for the price and it's highly accurate.
Bottom Line: The HP ScanJet Pro 4500 Network Scanner supports both Ethernet and Wi-Fi out of the box, and it scans and saves to searchable PDF faster than similarly priced competitors.
Bottom Line: The HP ScanJet Pro 4500 Network Scanner supports both Ethernet and Wi-Fi out of the box, and it scans and saves to searchable PDF faster than similarly priced competitors.
Bottom Line: The Epson Expression 12000XL Graphic Arts Scanner produces high-quality scans of photos and illustrations at up to tabloid size.
Bottom Line: The Epson Expression 12000XL Graphic Arts Scanner produces high-quality scans of photos and illustrations at up to tabloid size.
Bottom Line: The IRIScan book 5 WiFi is a wand scanner designed for scanning directly from books, magazines, journals, and notebooks. It's relatively fast and accurate, and allows you to scan directly to a PC, but it would benefit from a longer battery life.
Bottom Line: The IRIScan book 5 WiFi is a wand scanner designed for scanning directly from books, magazines, journals, and notebooks. It's relatively fast and accurate, and allows you to scan directly to a PC, but it would benefit from a longer battery life.