The Atiz BookDrive Mini is a highly capable choice for scanning books and other bound material with pages up to 10 by 15 inches.

The HP Scanjet Pro 3000 s2 Sheet-feed Scanner is a little slow, but it delivers easy one-step scanning to destinations ranging from Word documents to email to the cloud.

The Flip-Pal mobile scanner offers an innovative design with PC-free scanning, a 4 by 6 flatbed, and a neat trick for scanning originals that won't fit under the flatbed lid.

The Canon imageFormula P-208 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner combines a capable scanner with somewhat limited software.

The IRIScan Mouse lets you scan, recognize text, and save documents as well as operating as a mouse.

The Kodak i2900 document scanner combines a fast, high-capacity automatic document feeder for letter and legal size with a letter-size flatbed suitable for book scanning.

The VuPoint Solutions Magic InstaScan Portable Smart Scanner PDS-ST420-VP offers easy, fast manual-feed scanning without a computer.

The Xerox DocuMate 5460 scanner offers fast speed and a 4,000-page-per-day duty cycle, making it a prime candidate for heavy-duty scanning in a small- to medium-size office or workgroup.

The Pandigital Portable Wi-Fi Wand Scanner with Feeder Dock (S8X1103) combines all the common extras for wand scanners, from a dock to Wi-Fi, in a single scanner.

The Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner is a massive scanner built for fast, high-volume scanning of documents at up to tabloid width.

The Panasonic KV-S1026C is for offices that already have scanning software and are looking for a quick document scanner.

The Panasonic KV-S1015C (barely) beat its rated speed in both simplex and duplex scanning to image PDF, but was less impressive in scanning to searchable PDF.

The Xerox DocuMate 5445 is a highly capable desktop scanner that delivers fast speed with duplex (two-sided) scanning and comes with an assortment of world class software.

The Pandigital Handheld Wand Scanner (S8X1101BK) is a reasonably capable wand scanner, but to get the most out of it, you'll need better software than it comes with.

The Pandigital Handheld Wi-Fi Wand Scanner (S8X1102WH) qualifies as capable hardware, but its Wi-Fi feature and the software it comes with are both less useful than they could be.

The Pandigital Personal Scanner (S8X1100) is small and light, offers a manual feed, and doesn't need a computer to scan, but it needs a power socket or USB port for power.

The Xerox Travel Scanner 150 is a compact, no-frills, USB-powered portable scanner that can scan to a variety of document types and destinations, including the cloud.

The Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S55 document scanner is aimed primarily at companies that are using shared scan-related software, whether running on corporate servers or in the cloud.

Aimed at companies that are most likely using scan-related software running on servers or in the cloud, the Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S85 offers a 75-page input capacity and fast speed.

The Apparent Doxie One lets you scan without a computer then easily send scans to cloud apps with Doxie software after you've moved the scans to your computer.