CanoScan LiDE 400

I needed a basic scanner to digitise 100 documents. Set up was quick and within no time I was able to have digital copies stored locally as well as sent to a Google Drive folder automatically for sharing through the scanners own software. It's a good bit of kit and I was able to scan all of my documents in under an hour. The time per scan pass was reasonably fast. I was very happy to see this scanner is powered over USB which makes it very useful if it's needed when away from home or out of the office. If you're a mobile worker with a laptop or tablet, you will be able to power this scanner through your USB port. I haven't used it to scan photos or artwork so couldn't comment on how well it reproduces colour images. But grey scale documents and OCR is spot on.

I bought this exclusively for scanning in old photos and for £65, I am very happy with it. It took me about 2 hours to scan 250 photos. I scanned two at a time at 600 dpi and the quality is fine for me. The software for this scanner will automatically separate and crop the photos, so by scanning two at a time, as long as you leave a gap between them, the scanner will create two separate images on your computer and they will be perfectly cropped and aligned - so you don't need to keep them straight when putting them into the scanner. It takes about 30 seconds for the scanner to scan 2 photos at 600 dpi. Once you play around with it to make sure you know what you're doing and that you're happy with the quality, it doesn't take long to work through the photos and scan them all in. The software (which can be downloaded) is pretty straightforward and easy to use. If you are on macOS, you don't even need any drivers (not sure about Windows but they are all on the Canon website anyway). The only thing I will say is that this scanner has a lock switch on the bottom - I've no idea what this is for (maybe to stop your kids from scanning stuff?) but it is important to put it to the unlocked position or the scanner won't work. And if you unlock it whilst it's already plugged into the computer, you will need to disconnect and reconnect it to the computer (i.e. unplug / plug in the USB cable) after you put the switch to unlock, otherwise your computer might not detect it. This scanner also does not need any power source / plug socket, which is handy. It gets power from your computer (the USB cable is supplied). Overall I am very happy with this scanner - it did exactly what I wanted it to do and it was pretty cheap.

Image quality is good for the budget, plugs straight in to my MacBook without needing to install any drivers, as you scan through the 'Image Capture' App that comes pre installed on OSX. The cable supplied is a USB-A fitting so had to use an adapter to connect. Editing options seem quite basic, but scanning resolution is good. Speed is okay, I've scanned over 100 images over a weekend without any trouble. Easy to use with Mac, there is a CD supplied to use with PC. Dust easy to clear, the scanner doesn't seem to attract much dust.

Great product and a great price. Saved quite a bit ordering from Amazon instead from a local provider. Works really well and easy to use

Evening all. For anyone considering this scanner for recent Macbooks or recent Mac OS versions, a word of warning - there is no easy way to get this scanner to scan at 2400dpi to 4800dpi resolutions, which is the whole point of this scanner, most cheap Printer all-in- ones already do you to 1200dpi after all. Canon for reasons best known to themselves, don't not have up to date drivers on their website for MAC OS 26 Tahoe. Canon also only seems to support the higher resolutions noted above with additional software known as ScanGear, that only works with, you've guessed it, up to date drivers that aren't available for the latest Macbooks. Apple's inbuilt Printer and Scanner software will only support up to 1200dpi on this scanner, it shows the 2400 and 4800 dpi options, but it hangs and fails to scan every time. Canon also only includes a USB C to USB A cable, with the USB C end required for the scanner socket. As you will know, recent MacBook's do not have USB A sockets, and Canon only endorses the included cable for correct power and data transfer, when using their cable plugged directly into your MacBook (i.e. not via a USB A to C adaptor or dongle. Hopefully this is useful to others, avoid this scanner if you have a recent Mac and don't want to spend hours on forums and Canon's own poor driver site trying to find workarounds. Going to try an Epson instead, who at least seem to bother having driver support on their site for Mac OS 26 Tahoe and prior recent versions.

The Canon LIDE 400 is my third of these type of scanner I have had over time starting with the Lide 110. Previous Lide models all worked reasonably well except from panel scanner buttons which stopped many years ago on MacOS, a software issue probably. My Lide 220 didn't survive the upgrade from from Ventura 13.6 to Sonoma 14.0 via should add though the same would have happened going to Windows 11and it's about 10 years in the market. I tried the usual things but it didn't really seem to budge so decided not to sweat the problem and just get a more up to date Canon. First, Amazon supplied wickedly fast arriving 7:43 AM less than 12 hours after ordering. The Lide 400 is the top of the range of Lide scanners, the 300 is about £20 cheaper but loses some document scanning options exchanging USB C for a micro B on the back of the cheaper model. I mf you are going portable I'd go for the 400 because those micro B are super delicate and only go in one way. I mainly use it for document scanning though quoted resolution and apparent facilities make it good for photography too I bet. For document scanning the Lide 400 claims about 8 seconds scanning time whereas my old Lide 210 10 seconds, the difference isn't readily apparent in practice so the cheaper Lide 300 would have done just as well for that document scanning. I am a Mac user so that is what I will concentrate on, there are loads of people out there who have reports with Windows. Box contents: - Scanner - USB A to C cable - Scanner stand - CD (see below) - Documentation Only thing to do is remove the tapes, other packaging and unlock the scanner head (bottom towards the front). Then hook up the cable and make Mac OS aware via Printers and scanners of the new unit detected via AirPrint although it's a scanner and no Wi-Fi involved. Effectively this means support is built into Mac OS itself so there is no driver from Canon. To save this being too long some bullet points: Good * Scanner is very nearly plug and play affair with Mac with respect to driver install. You just have to add the scanner from within the Settings app, it is an AirPrint device even thought it is not a printer. * IJ Scan utility is dark mode - hooray! * Very clear fast document scans at 300 DPI should be good for higher resolution photography work. * Scanner front panel buttons which actually do work, previous models buttons stopped working (some kind of software issue). Not so Good * The CD only contains a Windows installer, for Mac you will have reach Canon's driver pay to download any relevant companion software. * There seemed to be some teething issues with detection of the scanner, I managed to resolve by juggling connections of my 16 port USB hub to fix. * IJ Scan utility is very much more complicated than it was, not good for keyboard users. I accept though that this is a very niche thing. Most others want more buttons and functionality which it does provide.§ * You cannot tweak the precise behaviour of the physical buttons on the scanner.

I purchased this as my LiDE 300 stopped working. I am very pleased with it. Easy to set up and faster than the previous model.

There seem to be very few basic scanners about and this one works well - you can use it with an Apple Mac or with Windows. It came with a lead which I did not realise so had ordered another one separately which was slightly irritating. The installation is incredibly easy - you have to plug in the scanner's lead directly into the computer and there is no other electrical connection. It comes up instantly with the information you need to instal it and then you can download the manual if you need to. It loses a star here because I think the manual is quite unnecessarily complicated. There are buttons on the end of the scanner which are absolutely straightforward - the only sad thing is that there does not appear to be a facility for scaling an image up or down in size or for cropping. The only way to crop an image is to use the facility that "stitches" two images together which is not ideal. The stitching facility and the fact that you can scan several images at once is good though. I really don't need the stand that makes it possible to store the scanner on its side - a space-saver I suppose but a fiddly widget. A useful office tool in every other way.

Good one the scan quality is impressive. It is having Type C USB for scanner end. Max support A4 paper in single scan at 600 dpi. For legal or bigger paper you have to use stich function.

Rien a redire sur ce produit, il fonctionne parfaitement, l'image scannée est de très bonne qualité le scan est plutôt rapide. Tout aussi bien compatible vec Windows et Linux.

Recibí el escáner hace unos días. Es fácil bajar los controladores. Apenas lo estoy empezando a probar, editaré esta opinión cuando haya terminado con eso. Sólo les quiero advertir que el aparato no tiene botón de encendido/apagado, lo cual a mi me resulta muy incómodo porque se enciende cuando lo conectas a la PC por USB y lo tienes que estar conectando y desconectando cada vez que lo usas. Tardé un buen rato en poder escanear un documento por 1a. vez porque te pide mover una palanca para desbloquear el aparato y nomás no la encuentras: LA PALANCA PARA DESBLOQUEARLO ESTÁ EN LA SUPERFICIE DE ABAJO. Ahí verás los iconitos de un candado abierto y otro cerrado. Días después ya lo he empezado a usar. Es muy rápido, escanea con una gran nitidez y tiene funciones muy cómodas, como enviar de inmediato por correo lo que acabas de escanear o poder imprimirlo sin necesidad de guardarlo primero. Sí lo recomiendo.

Testé après réception. Installation très facile. Fais très bien le travail. Je recommande.

Si tratta di un buon apparecchio, di grande marca e costo veramente abbordabile. Sebbene abbia il coperchio che si snoda, il libro non può essere molto grosso. Il problema degli scanner attuali (tutti) è però che hanno poca profondità di campo, per cui spesso libri di grosso formato, che quidi non si aprano completamene a 180 gradi, non vengano ripresi bene nei punti centrali, dove le pagini si unicono.