The Best Scanners of 2024

This Fujitsu ScanSnap offers a handy 4.3-inch touchscreen, up to 30 customizable job settings, and supports up to four user licenses per device. You can connect to a Windows PC or Mac with either USB or Wi-Fi. It works with receipts, postcards, standard paper documents, photos, and business cards. Amazon advertises it as “Climate Pledge friendly,” so it’s a vote for sustainability and the environment compared to some of the competition.

Reviewers love how easy it is to use, and have also been impressed with its longevity; the ScanSnap is purportedly made to last.

This scanner takes a little bit more hands-on work by design, but it offers ultra-quick scanning speeds (two seconds per page) and versatility. Perfect for digitizing some of your physical library, as well as your typical documents, the Aura-B uses laser tech and AI to turn the curved pages of every book into a clean, flat scan. You can set it to one of four different color-temp settings; output to JPEG, PDF, Word, and .tiff file types; and use an array of built-in lights for convenient reading at any hour of the day.

You’ll have to connect it using a USB cable, but it’s compatible with plenty of Windows and Mac operating systems. Reviewers warn that it’s not the most efficient scanner in the world; you might expect to archive about one average-length book per day. It comes with a one-year warranty.

Connected and powered with a simple USB cable, this no-frills, lightweight Epson scanner is small and portable, making it ideal for a fast-paced office environment. It can scan 8.5-inch-wide printouts up to 72 inches long, along with receipts and smaller documents. Epson’s software lets you export to the cloud on Windows or Mac, creating searchable PDFs, Word docs, or Excel sheets. It can also auto-feed multiple pages through continuously, creating a single convenient file.

User reviews have described it as “almost perfect,” though you may run into some limitations when using Wi-Fi or mobile devices, as opposed to plugging it into a laptop via USB.

The Doxie Go SE offers slick, standalone scanning anywhere—without the need for a connected PC. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery that ought to last up to 400 scans, and you can store as many as 8,000 pages before needing to upload to another device. You can scan full-color documents at 600 dpi, so the quality’s a little bit higher than similar scanners, and its software can auto-correct things like crooked pages, negative space, or poor contrast.

It comes with a one-year warranty as well as an SD card for storing your doc files. As with many products of this sort, the main complaints among shoppers involve the Wi-Fi connectivity or the software. If you’re looking to scan a high volume of multi-page documents, reviewers seem to think you should look elsewhere. For everyday scanning tasks, it’s got everything you need.

This compact scanner offers speed and portability; support for Mac, Windows, and Linux machines; and a straightforward USB 3.0 setup. There are upgrade models that offer wireless connectivity, but this little scanner can get the job done at a very attractive price point. It can handle full-color documents—including business cards and photo IDs—at up to 300 dpi, and features an optional auto-fix setting to clean up your scan job without any hassle.

You can save documents to your PC, a network, the cloud, an email address, or OCR software. Reviewers have said that the manufacturer’s customer service can be unhelpful, but Amazon should remedy any early issues.