Canon CanoScan LiDE 120 Color Image Scanner If you want to scan photographic prints without paying for a film-scanning feature you don't need, the Canon CanoScan LiDE 120 Color Image Scanner should be your top choice. PROS High-quality photo scans. Color restore. Scans to searchable PDF format. The Canon CanoScan LiDE 120 Color Image Scanner is the Canon's lowest-cost flatbed and affordable photo scanner. The LiDE 120 is aimed at those who need to scan photographic prints, don't need to scan film or slides, and don't want to pay extra for a film-scan feature they don't need. More important, it scans well enough to make it our Editors' Choice for low-cost photo scanners. The LiDE 120 measures 1.6 by 9.9 by 14.6 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.4 pounds. It's best described as a refresh of, rather than a significant upgrade from, the Canon CanoScan LiDE 110 Color Image Scanner . Most of the LiDE 120's hardware-based features, including its 2,400 pixel-per-inch (ppi) resolution, are unchanged from the LiDE 110. The software is different, but has similar capabilities and limitations. There's no real photo editor, for example, but Canon's My Image Garden works as a photo album and includes some photo enhancement commands. In addition, the scan utility includes built-in optical character recognition (OCR), so you can scan directly to searchable PDF format, as well as to image PDF format. You can even scan to editable text format. Unlike many recent scanners, the LiDE 120 doesn't come with any connectors to online systems for direct scanning to the cloud. However, if you have an app from, say, Evernote, running on your computer, you can set the scan utility to save files to the directory that the cloud app is monitoring, so the app can send the scan to the cloud for you. Scanning Scanning is easy, with the choice of using one of four buttons on the front panel or giving the command at the computer using Canon's scan utility. In addition, the setup program installs Twain and WIA drivers, which will let you scan from most Windows software that includes a scan command.