CanoScan LiDE 200 Color Image Scanner: 4800 x 9600 color dpi resolution. Auto Scan Mode automatically recognizes the type of original. To reduce the number of wires in your work area, one simple cable provides power and a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connection.

How simple is this? Just press a button to select what you want to do with your original — copy it, scan and save it, produce a PDF, or create an email. View larger

Done in 14 Seconds
Now, scanning is faster than ever. In about 14 seconds, you can scan a letter-size color original such as an article, or a page from your notebook or textbook.

Shadow-Free Scans
Typically, when you scan a page from a book, the shadow from the book’s inside "gutter" shows up on the scan. No more. Gutter Shadow Correction eliminates that shadow, providing a clean scan of just the page — and not the gutter.

4 EZ Buttons
How simple is this? Just press a button to select what you want to do with your original — copy it (sending a scanned image to your printer), scan and save it, produce a PDF, or create an email

Smart Scanning
Whether you’re scanning a photo, document, business card, textbook or personal notebook, the new Auto Scan Mode automatically recognizes the type of original, crops it to proper size and then scans and saves your file in the appropriate format. Perform this and more with the press of a single button.

Just One Wire
To reduce the number of wires in your work area, one simple cable provides power and a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connection.

Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.0

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-21
Content: I just recieved my scanner and I was scanning/croping and saving pictures 15 minutes after taking it out of the box. It's so easy, with one click you are done. I put 6 photos on the glass and it cropped and saved all of them in the destination folder. The scans look great from photos from the late 40's,early 50's.
Summary: Works great with Vista!

Rating - 2 Date: 2008-11-14
Content: This scanner looked promising. Nice footprint, easy user interface. Despite stating it is totally compatible with Vista however, it would not work at all with my new Dell Latitude E6400. After 4 hours on the telephone with both Canon and Dell, their technicians also concluded that it just would not work.

This was an incredibly frustrating experience, although Canon's technical support was pretty thorough.
Summary: Does not work with Vista on Dell Latitude E6400

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-11-12
Content: For the price, it's nice. Good scans, flexible software, runs on usb power so no extra power cord needed, and small compact size.

However, it's slow, and software is good for single scans, but not good for scanning something like a brochure.
Summary: Good consumer scanner, don't expect too much

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-10-08
Content: I bought this scanner to use on the road to scan pictures and genealogy files. It's very easy to use and has much better resolution than the stick scanners and is powered via the computer.
Summary: Scanner is great

Rating - 4 Date: 2008-10-03
Content: My Epson Perfection 4490 was the best scanner I ever owned--for the first year. At two years it has become dysfunctional. Back when it worked it did great transparencies, but it was a feature I rarely used.
So I was willing to get the little CanoScan LiDE 200. I'm tempted to give it three stars, but I'll go with the premise that the compactness comes at a price.
The Canon installed easily enough in Windows XP. On my desktop computer it runs pretty quickly. The software has some inconveniences relative to the Epson (when the Epson worked). The Canon can zoom in better for cropping on previews. I could not find a 4800 dpi setting, although I can set it to 1200 dpi and magnify. For scanning documents and prints this much resolution is rarely needed. Scans look sharp at 600 dpi, but a bit soft at 1200.
The illumination and detectors that make it compact and make it possible to be powered by the USB cord are different from the models that have their own power cord. The source material has to be right against the glass to scan sharply. If there is a gap it will be out of focus. Scanning from my laptop (done mainly for experimental purpose) is very slow.
The Canon scans upside down, compared to other scanners I have used. It seems strange at first, but it makes sense. It allows you to align the top of the document to the edge that is closest to you.
In the advanced driver mode, for making black and white scans it is possible to adjust the sensitivity. The Epson could do that too. Some HP's that I owned before the Epson couldn't.
For now the LiDE 200 does what I want well enough with a little bit less clutter than some bulkier scanners. The bulkier scanners do have more capability.

Edit: New laptop experiment
When I first tried the CanoScan 200 with my laptop, I plugged it into my Kensington 4 port hub. That performance was very sluggish.
For my new experiment I unplugged the hub and attached the CanoScan's USB cable directly to a laptop port. Performance was greatly improved, comparible to the desktop.
On my desktop computer I have an abundance of USB ports (I have a PCI card full of them installed), so I have not experimented with a USB hub and the desktop. My laptop experiments were done with the laptop powered by its AC adapter.

Summary: Nice little scanner with some limitations