Canon's LiDE scanners are all small, light, and easy to set up and use. Even better, despite all being flatbeds (so far), their small size lets you treat them as portable, at least to the extent that you can take them with you fairly easily when you need to.

Reasonably capable for photographic prints; Backlight correction and color restore features in driver

Film scan doesn't work for slides; Scans only one frame of film at a time; Film scanning is extremely cumbersome

Standalone scanners have dropped in popularity since the all-conquering multi-function device came along, but there's still a market for scanners. The LiDE 700F, the latest flatbed scanner from Canon, is a compact device with loads of features.

Great image quality; compact; fantastic driver software

Average OCR and dust and scratch removal performance

Simple to set up, the innovative 3-way design that this scanner boasts – with a flip-out stand, which allows it to be used in portrait, landscape or vertical positions - means it should fit neatly into any home office.

I bought this to upgrade from a LiDE 600. Nice, solid scanner absolutely undermined by software apparently designed as a high-school programming project. No logic or rhyme or reason for menu options, poor, slow results. I've had to buy third-party software (PaperScan) to make it usable.

Compact Design; vertical install

Difficult to use

As for scanner works - perfect, as for work with film - very inconvenient device or, my be in my case, it was not supplied with proper device to hold film!

Regrettably, the scanner isn't what I expected. It works well but I need something different. The CanoScan LiDE700F isn't the ideal scanner for negatives and it's not possible to scan slides.

A good replacement for my, now non-OS X Mountain Lion complaint, old Lide 60. Canon Scanners have never gave me problems. The 700f works beautifully, you don't need to install software on OS X 10.8, higher quality scans, faster capture time, good integration with Adobe Photoshop CS6...

If I had more familiarity with the issues I would have shopped around to c out ease of use. I do like the high resolution.

images are very good, very sharp; Software is okay, pretty good for peripheral software; Way better than nikon or hewlett-packard software which was awful

scanning film is laborious; Delicately placing the film, delicately positioning the scanning gadget, which has a too stiff, too short of a cord, delicately closing the lid, it all makes me feel like i have two left hands.

This is a really nice scanner - LED, instant on, no power cable (since it's USB powered), fast, and 35mm film attachment included (which is a mini-scanner on its own). I was a bit disappointed to learn that the 9600 dpi only apply to the film scanner (otherwise it has 4800x4800 dpi), but as long as...

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Can be placed on its side

Bad software; Dead slow; Slow Print Time