Epson - Perfection V19 Flatbed Color Image Scanner - Black

The good: Absolutely excellent image quality Light weight, barely bigger than the 8.5x11" paper it scans. USB self-powered, no AC wall wart needed. The bad: Not particularly fast. Over 12 seconds to produce a 300 dpi. 8.5x11" b/w document copy. My 21 year old Acer 320 BU was faster than this. No LZW compression. The jpg of the above file is 1100K! There's no freakin' power switch! To turn it on and off you're supposed to plug and unplug the USB connector. USB connectors are not intended to be power switches. You can buy switched USB hubs but still - how cheap can you get? The ugly: The provided scanning software is a hot mess. It looks like it was designed by four different teams in four different cities, none of whom were on speaking terms with the others. Slow, bizarre menu choices, hard to use, even harder to figure out. Ugh.

Keanu never disappoints. For those who don't know there are two discs in the package. It caused me some confusion.

Let me preface this review by stating I do not have much experience in the scanner Market. I really bought this camera in order to transfer canvas art to digital format, in that regards it is great as it is one of these few scanners that open up vertically instead of slide paper through, therefore I'm able to scan the canvas itself. I have no complaints when it comes to Quality the only issue is installing the right drivers as it took multiple attempts from the website to find the right drivers out of the four options.

Takes amazing quality scans of photos and documents. Also, it is EXTREMELY light, comes with a built-in stand and doesn't need a separate power source (powers itself through USB). For less than $80, this is an amazing deal!

I don’t need a flatbed often, but when I do it’s nice to have. This really scans things with good quality. More importantly, it’s reasonably priced and works with Mac, although with Big Sur I have to use the Epson software instead of Mac’s built in image capture utility. Bonus is it’s bus powered, so no separate power brick.

I love this thing. Ive had this for a few year now. Its an easy setup and gives options of how you want to scan. Also lets you Scan more than one item for 1 file. My favorite thing is there is NO power cord needed. Only needs Micro USB (can use 3rd party cable with no problem). I also like that I can throw this in my back pack and take it with me. Its not very heavy. I like easy and simple with options if needed.

The scanner produces excellent images for the cost of the product. The scanner is slow, but it serves my purposes of scanning and emailing personal photos and written documents extremely well.

I bought this item to be able to scan and make copies of receipts for my work and travel expenses. Works just the way I wanted it to, easy. Nice and slim so doesn't take up much room. Good choice.