Flatbed (or Desktop) scanners for home or office use. A flatbed scanner allows you to place the document on a glass window for scanning. Flatbed scanners are multipurpose machines that can be used to scan photos and images, documents, some can also scan slides and negatives. They can suit a variety of applications including design, photo restoration, X-ray scanning, film and technical graphics.

Document Processing Scanners for office use. A dedicated document scanner is a more efficient way to scan or digitize large quantities of paper documents - these scanners are usually sheet fed (sheet fed). Document scanners are ideal for high-volume document scanning and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) applications.

Bar code Scanners are designed to recognise and process bar code information into a digital format for further computer usage. As used in most shops. We recommend laser barcode scanners or linear imaging models over CCD scanners because they can scan scan from a longer distance, work in all lighting conditions and are faster. Many people need a receipt printer to give the client a record of the transaction.