Scanners prices have become more manageable following the trend of decreasing prices and increasing features. Many consumers and businesses are finding scanners affordable solutions to life's and business' challenges. Just looking at the adds and boxes for scanners may make you think the buying decision is a simple one. It is not this is a computer peripheral. You need to know more than the words compact, color, flatbed, and easy to use.
Scanners have a variety of different categories.
One category is the way the scanner handles paper, which divides scanners into the flatbed, handheld and sheet-fed types. The flatbed scanner can only take one sheet at a time, unless it comes with or you can purchase an optional sheet-feeder. The flatbed scanner has emerged as the scanner of choice out of the three. Flatbed scanners handle image documents better than text while the sheet-fed scanners work fine with text. Flatbeds do not distort the image like many sheet-fed scanners do.