Canon imageFORMULA DR-M140 - Document Scanner - Desktop - USB 2.0

This machine is what I'm looking for, perfect to office scanning. I am very satisfied glad I order it.

I've used many different Canon scanners over the years. Not sure why this doesn't have better reviews but it is very solid. Hasn't skipped a single page after over a month of daily use. Extremely fast and good at auto recognizing duplex pages. Because of it's compact size, it is both portable(will easily fit into a backpack along with a laptop) and also will not take up a lot of desk space when stationary. The front load design is better compared to other top loads since you don't have to reach as far. Wasted a thousand bucks on the DR-M160 which constantly skips pages and takes up half you desk when fully opened(see pic). Wanted to go Office Space on it after a few months but instead banished it to the closet. Bottom line, ignore other reviews and trust me to go with this one. Great scanner.

I'm impressed with this scanner. It's so tiny, but works like the big boys. I do wish it had slightly larger input/output trays, but other than that it's awesome. The software is a tad buggy. The CaptureOnTouch software has a bug where you choose job #1 on the scanner and hit start, and it doesn't choose job #1, and therefore job #1 in the software us useless unless you specifically choose job #1 in the software. #2-9 work exactly how they're supposed to. I've also had it crash on me like 15 different times at all stages. After the scan, during a scan, etc. It's frustrating that it crashes, which means you have to start the scan job over completely. One small wish I have for the software is for it to read barcodes off of ONLY the first page in the batch, in order to determine how to name the file. This would save us a ton of time, as we scan hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of paper every day. The problem is, almost every single piece of paper we scan, also has a barcode on it. We would like the cover sheet of each batch to be able to name the file, for true one-touch scanning and saving.

This is the fastest portable scanner we use. We take these on the road and scan literally thousands of pages with it. I highly recommend getting the Canon Care Pack for it. We contacted Canon for repair service for one that was purchased in 2012 (turns out it simply needed the rollers replaced, which can be changed by the user). Canon does not repair these. They simply provide an exchange for out of warranty units. In my opinion, that's better than sending it in for repair and waiting for it to come back. The scanner itself is fast, with clear and sharp images. I can't think of another portable scanner that comes close to matching the speed and clarity of this unit. We've compared it to the Scan Snap and previous versions of the Canon (DR-2580). The included software, if set up properly will scan and orient the pages correctly no matter how they are loaded into the scanner (text orientation recognition). There are other very helpful features as well. Combine this with Acrobat and you have an excellent document capturing system.

At first ... it was a real pain to use. The scanner driver constantly stopped working. It would even cause Adobe Acrobat to die when creating a PDF from the scanner. Very frustrating and almost unusable. We have a few of the previous model and it never had any of these problems. BUT ... Canon released new Windows drivers for it. And the updates fixed everything ! It's now our preferred scanner. Fast and easy to use. I strongly suggest that you download the latest drivers from Canon before even trying out this scanner. The drivers on the CD that ships with the scanner are buggy.