Good, cheap, small USB scanner?

[The Sauce]

Any suggestions? I have just got to get rid of this SCSI card.

 

[Aquaman]

I've got the Canon 670U (150 Cdn around $90 US). No complaints so far.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Pabster]

Heh, I'd much rather a SCSI scanner than a USB one. Wait, I am using a SCSI scanner

You can find the HP 3300 series really cheap, even (close to) free after rebate. Then again, there are a plethora of cheap USB scanners out there right now. I've never been impressed.

 

[Gstanfor]

I recently purchased a Mustek 1200 UB Plus (Australian model number - may differ for US) to replace an older parallel port scanner I had. It was extremely cheap just $100AU. To be honest I wasn't expecting much out of the scanner, but since I only really use it like a photocopier/scanner anyhow (I have a digital camera also) I wasn't too concerned.

The scanning quality is excellent for the price however - it totally amazed me there. The twain interface is very good compared to other scanners I've owned/used in the past, and the greatest part of all (and quite unexpected) it's very good at OCR due to the bundled ABBY Finereader program.

In the past I haven't bothered much with OCR, it's been too clunky and inaccurate to worry about. Not this time around. I placed a cheaply printed magazine page in the scanner and OCR'ed it through the scanners multifunction frontend. It scanned quickly, took almost no time at all to process the scan and output a perfect copy of the page to word, layout pictures, colors and all. Not a spelling error in sight. Everything editable. This finereader program makes Omnipage and TextBridge look stupid by comparison.

Greg

 

[John P]

I know 3 people who own Canoscan 650U's and like them.

 

[AluminumStudios]

I recently bought a HP Scanjet 2200c USB at Staples for $80. It's a good name brand and does a decent job for it's specs. It's not very large and it's light.

Having worked in several scientific departments at colleges and Universities and I've used a number of scanners (high and low end) and have always been pleased with HPs consistancy and compatibility.

 

[chansen]

For general purpose, the Canon scanners are great. Plus, no power cord or brick - they're powered by the USB port.

 

[Smaulz]

Just picked up a Microtek ScanMaker 5600 for design work, and the thing is a champ! Killer color purity (true 48bit) , great resolution, (4800 x 2400 optical), and it comes with an mp3 CD player. Got it for $179 with a $20 MIR.

 

[Motero]

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