If you need a fast desktop scanner, the DR-M260 is good value, with very creditable scan quality and a great software bundle.

With this tool you can tweak your scans to your heart’s content, with auto-cropping, edge-cleanup, de-speckling, contrast and brightness settings – and when you’ve finished, it will pass the spruced-up document back to the host app to be saved. This installs a new VRS TWAIN driver, which then can be accessed from either of the Canon apps, and indeed any other TWAIN-compliant application. If that’s not sophisticated enough for you, Canon also throws in a copy of the Kofax VRS (Virtual ReScan) image-enhancement software – although you’ll need to download the DR-M260 component from the Kofax support site, as this isn’t included on the bundled disc.

This isn’t a touchscreen – just a five-line monochrome LCD panel – but it’s still convenient for quick walk-up access.įor a more hands-on scanning experience you can use Canon’s CapturePerfect app, which lets you apply image enhancements such as colour and exposure correction, and save your scans in TIFF, JPEG, PDF or PPT formats.

Alternatively, you can use the right-hand pane to create preset shortcuts, and make them available from the scanner’s control panel. Canon’s support site offers extra plugins for sending scans to the Nuance PaperPort app and saving to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or SugarSync folders.įor ad-hoc scanning, you can simply select your desired document and output profiles in the app and click the Scan button. These are partnered with profile plugins, which determine whether your output will be saved to a local or network folder, uploaded to an FTP or SharePoint server, imported into an application, forwarded directly to a printer or attached to a message in your email client. Document profiles define resolution and colour settings, and tell the software whether or not to skip blanks, rotate skewed pages and separate document batches using page count, barcode or zonal OCR. The CaptureOnTouch software makes light work of common scan operations. Single embossed ID and credit cards can also be scanned with the ultrasonic jam detection turned off, and optional carrier sheets can be used to safely scan passports. Paper handling was a non-issue: the scanner dealt with all our dog-eared documents, till receipts and waybills without any problems.

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