Offices with little desk space but heavy document scanning requirements find that most flatbed scanners are just too big - and very often not designed to be carthorses. Novices will be well served by the simplicity and low cost of this unit.

This really is a bargain offering and one of the cheapest scanners on the market at present. Way, way down at the bottom of Hewlett Packard's lineup of scanners sits their Scanjet 2400. Review Jul 04 Hewlett-Packard Australia Scanjet 2400 If you want a fast way of scanning documents, the Scanjet 5590 is a good solution. For photo scanning and film scanning, the results were less impressive. For the rapid scanning of monochrome documents and conversion to editable text files, the automatic document feeder enabled scanner does an excellent job. The Hewlett-Packard Scanjet 5590, predominantly aimed at home office or small businesses, offers a mixed set of results. Review Oct 10 Hewlett-Packard Australia Scanjet 5590 The HP ScanJet N6310 is a flatbed document scanner Review Jan 22 Epson Perfection V200 PhotoĮpson's low-cost V200 scans photos and film into winning images on the quick. Review Jun 15 Hewlett-Packard Australia ScanJet N6310 But the Canon CanoScan LiDE 200 has some drawbacks, including skimpy OCR functions and the inability to scan transmissive items (such as film).