Pandigital PANSCN01 PhotoLink Mini Scanner -Black

I had read about all the lines on the images from other reviewers. Given its poor Amazon rating the price dropped to $29. I wanted a cheap way to scan receipts, and didn;t care about scans having lines on them (I have a Canon large format scanner I use when quality is important). Sadly the scanner was Dead On Arrival. I returned for a refund.

I have scanned about 200 pics so far. Yes, I can see fine lines in some of the photos, but I do not worry about it. I have many hundreds of pics to scan and just want to capture the image and not keep piles of photo albums. I am VERY happy with this product. I could not find another one that was so affordable, fast and stand-alone. I am very satisfied and am giving empty photo albums to the Salvation Army.

I owned an early model of this mini scanner which served me well for several years before it gave up. For $30 I figured I couldnt go wrong with another. This model scans much faster than the old model so I am more likely to use it. I mostly use it for scanning receipts, business cards, and Christmas cards. The photo quality isnt terrific but the alternative is that I would just loose those images forever so they are better than nothing for sure. Yes there are fine white lines across all the dark areas of a photo like others have noted so if you are into high quality photos this scanner is not for you. If you want something cheap, quick, and adequate than this scanner will do fine.

Totally unusable. All photos have insane streaks. Tried cleaning both manually and with compressed air. Nothing helped.

Works great, shipped quick, good price

Pros: compact, inexpensive, fairly easy to use Cons: Scan quality is terrible. It worked well for the first batch I scanned, but now the dreaded white lines have appeared and will not go away, no matter how many times I clean and recalibrate this sucker.

After I figured out how it worked it became the best buy for my photo job ever and inexpensive.

This thing is a complete ripoff! The scan quality is extremely poor (think mid-90s technology), even without the frequent white lines that appear on the images. Not only that, but they neglect to inform you that you need to put EVERY picture in a flimsy plastic shield for each scan in order to get high quality results - this negates much of the advertised ease of use and speed of being able to feed one picture in after the next. Not only that, you cant scan directly to the computer! You HAVE to use the memory card provided, which is TINY (556mb)! Should you want to scan more than a few pictures you would have to buy a much larger capacity memory card. What a rip off. Dont waste your money on this scam.

This is a pretty neat little gadget. Pretty much just follow the directions, then plug the power in. To scan, you just put the photo in, it takes it away. Converts it right to Jpg on the memory card. And, if you dont have a memory card reader you can plug it into the computer and download it directly. Only downside is a technical limitation - you cant scan and pull pictures off the card at the same time (probably a memory card limitation). Otherwise its a pretty neat gadget.

I bought this little scanner to scan checks received at my business for accounting purposes. The quality and clarity are not perfect, but it works beautifully for that purpose. I would never use a $20 scanner for my precious photos. After all, its only a $20 scanner. Invest a little more for your photos.