Canon High Quality Scanners

A document scanner is an electronic machine that can copy a physical item and transfer an image of it to a computer. A document scanner has the responsibility of making legible digital copies of physical documents.

Canon scanners and printers can be integrated using either a physical or cloud-based connection.

To manage your devices, Canon provides a range of software solutions including uniFlow for managing printing and scanning workflows and devices, as well as Scan2x for intelligent scanning of a variety of documents. Therefore is also a great recommendation for managing enterprise-level document archiving and retrieval. Learn more about Canon's printing and scanning software solutions.

These applications can be used via desktop and mobile interfaces (including iOS and Android devices)

To scan documents using a Canon scanner, connect your Canon scanner or printer and scanner to a device (desktop or mobile), place the document on top of the platen or into the automatic document reader (depending on your type of scanner) and utilise the physical buttons on the scanner device or connected applications to initiate the scanning process.

Scanners can scan documents starting with a business card or letter-size, all the way up to large format A3 documents and in some cases even larger files. Choosing the right Canon scanner will depend on your business's or home office's specific needs.

A scanner is an electronic device that is connected to a computer (desktop or laptop) or mobile interface. Its main function is to scan or take a picture of a document, digitise the information for archiving, viewing, sharing, printing or similar uses.

Scanners operate by shining light at the object or document being digitised and directing the reflected light (usually through a series of mirrors and lenses) onto a photosensitive element. In most scanners, the sensing medium is an electronic, light-sensing integrated circuit known as a charged coupled device (CCD).

The cost of a scanner varies depending on a variety of factors, most notably the operations that you require the scanner to perform and your document size. Our range of Canon scanners starts from R2 800.00 ex vat.

Compact desktop scanners, for example, are relatively inexpensive and provide a standard set of features, whereas, wide format scanners may be a more sizeable investment due to their range of specialised scanning (sometimes including built-in printing) capabilities, and their larger form factor.

A flatbed scanner is an electronic, optical scanner that provides a flat, glass surface for scanning documents or other items. A flatbed scanner allows the conversion of paper documents or photos into a digital form.

A flatbed scanner is sometimes called a reflective scanner because it works by shining white light onto the object to be scanned and reading the intensity and colour of light that is reflected from it, usually a line at a time.

To operate a flatbed document scanner one would place a document on top of the platen (flat glass surface) one at a time. Sheetfed scanners, also known as automatic document scanners, are designed with an automatic document feeder (ADF) which allows the operator to scan multiple files without having to continuously feed the scanner each document piece by piece.