CanoScan LiDE 35 Scanner Review - Testing
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To test the CanoScan LiDE 35, I scanned four different documents, choosing image settings based on what would commonly be used when scanning that type of document.
A simple letter took 10 seconds to be scanned in black and white at 300 dpi. Here's a piece of the resulting scan:
The text is grainy around the edges, but still very clear and legible.
Scanning a 4x6" glossy photo in color at 1200 dpi, the scanner's max resolution, took a minute and 25 seconds. Here is the image, originally 4800x7200 resized to 400x600 then cropped.
The scanned photo's color is truly phenomenal. In fact, the photo looks better scanned than it does in real life. The LiDE 35's color enhancing technology is no joke, because it really does breathe life into dull photos. The same image scanned at a more reasonable 600 dpi took only 25 seconds. This gives an image resolution of 2400x3600, which is plenty of detail for a 4x6 photo.
A small paperback book cover required 13 seconds to be scanned in color at 300 dpi.
The dots in the background is the scanner picking up the paper's texture. The text is surprisingly round and smooth, in stark contrast to the black and white text previously scanned. In scanning this book cover, I used the LiDE 35's ability to lift the cover off the base of the scanner.
An entire page of black text on white paper from a textbook took 10 seconds to scan at 300 dpi in black and white. The only difference between this and the letter I scanned is font size.
Once again, text is grainy and the smaller font size gives the scanner a more difficult time. Anything under 300 dpi is illegible. The included OCR software, OmniPage SE, one of the top rated OCR programs, was able to convert this same page scanned at 300 dpi into text with very few errors.
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