Flatbed scanners let you scan an array of documents including photographs, loose documents and pages within a book as well as any item that can lay flat on the scanner's surface.

Epson, the best-selling scanner brand in the United States,1 today announced new document scanning solutions in its flatbed ...

The Epson flatbed scanner we used for comparison can scan at up to 4,800 dpi, which is useful when you're cropping images or printing large images from smaller pictures.

Our best flatbed scanner for professionals, the Epson Perfection V850 Pro Photo Scanner, supports a maximum optical resolution of 6800 DPI, and can take anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes ...

If you’re fine with a flatbed scanner that’ll take up more space on your desk, and require more hands-on time scanning individual photos, Kern recommends Epson’s Perfection V600 flatbed scanner.

A fantastic A3 flatbed scanner. A3 scanners (or tabloid scanners as they’re known as in the US) can scan documents up to 11.7x 17-inch in size. My choice would be the OpticSlim 1680 from Plustek.

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The Canon CanoScan LiDE 400 is a classic flatbed scanner, with good resolutions for scanning photos, artwork, and documents. With a scanner like this, there is no hopper to load up several ...

A flatbed scanner is ideal if you plan to scan single sheets, book pages, or film negatives. The Canon CanoScan Lide 400 is an affordable, ...

The OpticFilm 8100 isn’t a ‘flatbed’ scanner like some others in this list, meaning it lacks a hinged lid or the space needed to scan A4 documents.

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