When most people think about scanners, they envision the flatbed scanner, a common home and office peripheral that looks like somebody chopped the top off of a photocopier. Sure, all scanners perform the same process: they use a combination of mirrors, glass, a light source, a CCD chip (just like the one in your digital camera), and some combination of belts, motors, and rollers to move the document and/or the pieces of the scanner around in order to capture your paperwork or photos in their entirety.īut while they all capture images from paper, the way in which they do so, the quality in which they do so, and the amount of effort you have to invest into loading and scanning each individual document or photo varies enormously between models.ĭepending on the material you need to scan, and the frequency with which you scan it, the difference between buying the right scanner and the wrong scanner is the difference between “I love this thing! I push a button and I’m done!” and “I’ll admit, at the back of my office closet is an old scanner and a box of stuff I need to scan…”įlatbed Scanners: Friend of Photographers and Casual Users Alike Even if you buy a top of the line model, it might not be the right tool for the job, and you’ll waste time, get inferior results, and curse the day you bought the wrong model.
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