Here’s what could be found with the LiDE 210:
Three-color LEDs. Auto scan, copy, email, and multiple PDF-conversion buttons. Compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP/2000, and Mac OS X v10.4.11 to 10.63. High-speed USB power source.
Guide Review
Flatbed scanners are rarely small, graceful items, but Canon turned things around with the CanoScan LiDE 210 flatbed scanner. Measuring 9.9 inches wide by 14.4 inches long and only 1.6 inches high, this scanner didn’t take up too much space. You could also mount it on its side using the included plastic mount. At less than $90, this scanner was reasonably priced, offering good value for the money. It offered five one-touch scan buttons for functions such as scan to email or PDF and a maximum 4800x 800 color resolution. Scanning was quick, with color 8x10 documents taking about 11 seconds. PDFs looked good and could easily be made searchable. You could scan to other formats, such as TIF. It featured scanning to OCR. However, the LiDE 210 didn’t scan directly to Word, but rather to Notepad. This was a downside, as Notepad isn’t the easiest word-processing program to use to correct mistakes. The scanner was a bit big to be called portable. Still, it could run off USB rather than an electric plug. This was convenient unless you tried to run it off a laptop on battery power, which would quickly drain the battery. Disclosure: A review copy was provided by the publisher. For more information, please see our Ethics Policy.
