Canon CanoScan Lide 300 Scanner

This scanner might not feel substantial, but if it's like it's predecessor will last a long time. I had a Lide110 that has worked beautifully for almost 12 years but while transporting it to my parents house, I dropped it. I was shocked that it still works, but it's obviously wounded and probably won't for much longer so I was so grateful that I could find this one which for all intense and purposes is about the same and still quite reasonably priced. It's very portable and is even faster than the 110 which I always thought was very fast. The only thing I don't like about it as far as it's design goes is that the buttons in the front are not recessed, making them easy to accidentally push when trying to scan something in another program. I cannot speak to the resolution quality of the scans because I am visually impaired and the only thing I use mine for is to read printed materials with character recognition software. As for that, it works beautifully. I never had problems installing its predecessor on previous versions of Windows but with Windows 11, it took me three tries to finally get it to work as expected. I ended up having to download the updated files for it and save them to my hard drive before running the install as opposed to launching that process after inserting the CD. It was worth the effort though, because the scanner is quick and quiet, and I couldn't ask for more. Here's hoping it lasts as long as the 110 which would still be going strong if I hadn't been clumsy.

Needed an external scanner for my newest Home Build Win 11 CPU. The Canon CanoScan Lide 300 Scanner feels solid and well crafted. Works great so far ...