The 6 Best Photo Scanners for 2025

The Canon ImageFormula RS40 Photo Scanner is another excellent sheet-fed option that offers wide compatibility, allowing you to start scanning quickly right out of the box. It can handle media of various sizes and types, including instant photos, receipts, and 8×10 photos. As such, it’s an excellent all-purpose scanner for both backing up photos and important documents.

It’s possible to batch scan up to 40 photos at once, with speeds of up to 30 photos per minute. For those keeping score, that comes out to one photo every two seconds. While it’s not quite as fast as our top pick, the RS40 remains an excellent alternative for quickly digitizing old photo albums. It can batch scan photos in multiple sizes too, and a carrier sheet helps protect old and delicate photos as it goes through the scanner. An optical resolution of 600 DPI ensures scans are crisp and detailed, while software interpolation bumps that up to 1200 DPI.

Canon software transforms faded photos into vibrant ones, reduces red eye, and saves your scans to a computer or preferred cloud service, including Google Drive and Dropbox. Combined with the fast batch scanning and intuitive controls, the RS40 offers one of the most straightforward and hassle-free ways to digitize your photo collection. The process essentially involves you loading your photos, pressing scan, and letting the scanner do the rest.

The RS40 isn’t just for photos—it’s equally capable as a document scanner, handling everything from business cards to legal-size papers. It can process items as small as 2 x 2.1 inches and as large as 8.5 inches by 14 feet, saving them in various formats including searchable PDFs, Microsoft Word files, Excel spreadsheets, TXT documents, JPGs, and TIFFs. With a daily duty cycle of 4,000 scans, it’s built to handle substantial scanning projects without breaking a sweat.

Similar to the Lide 400, the RS40 doesn’t offer wireless support, so you’ll need to connect it to a computer. The good news is it works well with both Windows and Mac, though using your smartphone is out of the question.