Unfortunately, the one-touch scanning system was a bit sporadic. Sometimes I had to throw in a couple of mouse clicks, as well, to accomplish everything I wanted. No biggie, but worth noting. With an optional transparency cover, you can scan slides, negatives and other transparent material. Scanning is relatively quick and produces good image quality.
Colors are accurate, as well.
Finally, the MX3 has a see-through user interface driver in a color selected by the user, plus a blue translucent scanner lid designed, to make style conscious iMac users happy. It can be used as a stand-alone application. MagicMatch is included along with the Kodak Digital Science Color Management System. Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition, the full version of the image editing software. Caere OmniPage LE is OCR software that purportedly delivers 99 percent accuracy converting scanned documents to editable text.