Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 Review

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Canon CanoScan LiDE 20
3.6 stars
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smaggy's Review of Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 Scanner

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Scan Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Time Scanner Owned
    Between 1 - 4 Weeks
  • Ease of Set Up
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Compact.
Easy to use.
Good output.


Bad Points

Can't think of any.


General Comments

Bought the Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 from PC World for £45.
The scanner is quite slim and can be placed flat or vertical. I find flat better, but have never tried vertical position.
I have used the scanner to scan pics and documents and the results were quite good.
The software is user friendly. This is my first scanner and I could find my way around it easily. It comes with canon's photo editing software which I did not install as I already had many such softwares on my system- digital camera, webcam, etc. Still you can easily use the scanning software in conjuction with MS photo 2002(which I use). There is provision to email images, print etc as soon as it is scanned. I don't think the scanner is slow, but I cannot compare as I have not used other scanners. Now I can easily fax documents from my PC. Just scan and fax. Because I use fax occasionally, this has completely eliminated the need to buy a fax machine as I can now send any paper document by fax after scanning and of course I can receive any fax on my PC.
The OCR is great! My wife was scratching her head as she wanted to type in a 2 page reference for her employer - and It would have taken at least 30 - 40 mins for her! Scanner did the job in total of 1 minute! It recognises standard fonts like Arial, etc with almost 100% accuracy.
It is a really useful piece of equipment. Go for it if you are not sure. Worth a try, I think.

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