For photos or other easily damaged originals, bound material, and 3D objects, you need a flatbed scanner, which has a large glass platen on which y...

If your main scanning need is scanning documents on a regular basis—particularly those longer than one or two pages—you almost certainly want a doc...

Duplex scanning means scanning both sides of a page. If you expect to frequently scan documents that are printed on both sides, you'll want a duple...

For most scanning, having a high enough resolution at your disposal for the job at hand isn't an issue. For, say, tax documents, even a 200-pixel-p...

Most scanners come with basic scanning software. Depending on what you plan to scan, some of the features to look for include optical character rec...

Finally, consider whether you need a special-purpose scanner. Among the most common special-purpose choices are scanners for business cards (small...

All-in-one or multifunction printers have built-in scanners, nearly all with flatbeds and many with ADFs. That may be sufficient for light scanning...