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Summary: WIA Support!
Review: The CanoScan LiDE 20 I bought from Amazon has both WIA and Twain drivers on the CD for those who care. WIA drivers aren't downloadable nor even mentioned on Canon's website/box
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Summary: Easy for my wife to use
Review: Excellent scanner, the software was easy to install, and connecting the hardware was a whiz. The OCR software is excellent and setting up the buttons for scan, copy and e-mail was easy. For the price you can't go wrong.
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Summary: Great product for the price
Review: This is a great product for I need to do which is to copy, scan pictures for the web, and run OCR. It installed without any effort on my XP laptop and Windows 2000 desktop. The fact that it does not have a power cord makes it very easy to use it on my laptop.
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Summary: Portable scanner
Review: Portable scanner that can acomidate most books and uses one cabel. I comes with text recognition software (full working version). It is has a foot print that is a little larger than that of an average laptop and it is about an inch thick. For it's price it provides excellent quality scans. And can scan and crop photos automaticly (up to 3 standerd sized 35mm photos simultaneously). Can even export images to printer, e-mail, Acrobat (Reader included on CD), Omni Page (included on CD), any program of ones choosing, or it can just save it as a file (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP).
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Summary: canon lide 20 canoscan
Review: if you are a new computer user, dont buy this product. it was extremely complicated to install, you are required to install a new driver and delete the old driver. trying to install the new driver was so time consuming and complicated that it is not worth the trouble. this will be the last time i buy a canon product.
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Summary: Good Buy
Review: I have owned a 670U (previous designation for this scanner) for 5 months and find it does everything it is supposed to do, and does it well. Color and sharpness are great. It makes very good copies. The included software is easy to use. I am happy!
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Summary: Nice scanner, but the driver/software needs work
Review: I purchased the Canon LiDE20 because of its size and feature set. It's nice and small -- small and light enough that I could carry it in my laptop case from work and travel with it.For a [inexpensive] scanner, it delivers some pretty good images. No gross color casting or distortion, reasonably high dpi, and FAST. While I had it, it was a joy to import images with it. Mostly. Unfortunately, the drivers for it just didn't quite like the Win2000 Pro environment, and made my laptop subject to random and catastrophic lock-ups. No Ctrl-Alt-Del to kill the task here; a hard boot was required each time to restore the machine. According to Canon, I had the most current drivers, and they couldn't suggest any way to keep it from locking up. So, unfortunately, the scanner had to go back. Which is too bad, because it did work very well and delivered images that were quite nice for a scanner in this price range. If Canon releases a future driver fix, or can come up with some way to fix the lock-up issue, I will certainly give it another try.
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Summary: Very Cool!
Review: After a rather bad experience with a Canon BJC-5100C inkjet printer, I swore I'd never own another Canon product again. The story you are about read is true: We now have four scanners in our house. An Acer that I bought 3 years ago- great machine, but when my parents shipped it to me from Ottawa, they neglected to send the power supply, so it's basically a paper weight. I inherited an HP Scanjet 4C, an older but no less superb machine. Except for the fact I don't have a SCSI cable or card, I'm sure it works just fine. Next up is a newer HP 3300C that my wife got with her junky HP Pavilion that she bought against my better judgement before we were married. Okay, that's three, and we lost the power supply to the 3300C. With me so far? That's three useless scanners. So we decided to buy a fourth, the CanoScan LiDE 20, which doesn't even need a power supply because it gets its juice from the USB connection. Less than four hours after I had set up the Canon, I was rooting around in the closet in our office when, lo and behold, I found the adapter for the 3300C. I must be paying off karma at a greatly accelerated rate. The argument that ensued was basically who would get which scanner. The Canon was hooked up to my PC and the HP to hers. It still hasn't been resolved. But what of the LiDE 20 scanner? Well, a good chum of mine has the first model released about 3 years ago and it was a pretty nifty toy. This is basically the same model with a new bells and whistles, like front panel mounted control buttons for Scanning, Copying, and attaching scanned images to e-mail. You get a ton of software with it, plus all the usual stuff that you need to make a scanner work, like twain drivers, an scaled down version of OmniPage, which is one of the better OCR or Optical Character Recognition programs that I have used, and a free copy of ArcSoft's Photo Studio, which is like Jasc's excellent Paint Shop Pro. The Canon scan interface is pretty idiot proof, and everything worked perfectly after a lengthy install process. (One that lets you choose which programs you want installed rather than simply slapping everything on your hard drive whether you wanted it there or not.) Set-up and operation was painless. Does it do good scans? Hey, for what it costs, it does GREAT scans. Plus there are a mess of tools to cut, crop, slice, chop and generally alter scanned images to your hearts content. Tons of image filters, drawing tools and any half-decent paint program incorporates twain imports, so you can acquire images fright from PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. I haven't learned how to make do everything, but then again, I've only had it a few hours. It's also perfect for laptop users, since it doesn't require a power outlet and if you're like me, this can only be a good thing. I figure we'll loose the USB cable shortly, just because that's how the universe works. Footnote: We now have 5 scanners- my wife bought herself a Canon LiDE 30 scanner and the argument was solved. I won.
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Summary: A Great Little Scanner
Review: This is a fabulous scanner/copier.
I bought it almost a year ago from Amazon.com and just installed it. If I'd known what a great little machine it is, I would have installed sooner!
Installation was a breeze. The scans and prints are clear. There is even a copier feature on this unit! And it comes with a stand so it can be used upright and it takes up less space.
If you're in the market for a scanner, buy this one!
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Summary: Excellent Price+Product+Design
Review: Canon has outdone itself again. By producing a small & lightweight scanner that is inexpensive for those who are on a limited budget and just need to scan the following items: pictures; make minor copies (since I don't have a copy machine) to keep as records; invoice/bill statements, legal documents, archival papers, etc. This scanner was so light & unbelievable thin so I don't use up a lot of space for storage purposes. Instructions was easy to install & use. I was scanning old pictures in no time. It also doesn't use extra electricity since it has USB connector. I highly recommend this scanner to EVERYONE!
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