Price: $479.00 - $299.00
(as of Dec 10, 2024 01:05:07 UTC - Details)

With the Canon imageFORMULA RS40 Photo and Document Scanner you can convert old photos to digital formats and store them in the cloud*. The automatic document feeder allows you to easily scan mixed batches of photos and documents in color, with just the touch of a button. You can scan both sides of items and save in multiple file formats including PDF and most common photo formats. Bundled software called CaptureOnTouch is included with your Canon scanner to edit and enhance the quality of your photos. The RS40 is both Windows and Mac compatible. You can easily connect to your device with a USB cable; TWAIN driver is also included. Your investment is protected with a one-year limited warranty and U.S.-based technical support for imageFORMULA scanners.
DIGITIZE PAPER PHOTOGRAPHS – Create lasting memories with digital montages or scrapbooks, share with friends and family or store on a computer or to your current cloud service
FAST AND EFFICIENT – Scans both sides of photos and documents at the same time with just the touch of a button, at up to 40 items per minute, through an automatic feeder
BUNDLED SOFTWARE – Includes software for enhancing photos, red-eye correction, digital face smoothing, and more; also scan, create, convert, and edit paper documents
HIGHLY FLEXIBLE – Handles photos and documents including Polaroids, receipts, cards, driver licenses, and tax documents of various sizes and saves them in formats such as JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG, PDF, and PPTX
BROAD COMPATIBILITY – Supports Windows and Mac; TWAIN driver included
PEACE OF MIND – Backed by a one-year limited warranty and US-based technical support for imageFORMULA scanners
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Scanning my way through thousands of photos
Review: I have been using this scanner for several weeks now, and scanned a couple thousand photos so far. I'm really happy with the device overall; the scan quality is good, and the workflow is reasonably fast. It was easy to download and install the “CaptureOnTouch” software that interacts with the scanner. The software does a great job of cropping the pictures, and I can choose to scan on either side, or both, or set a “sensitivity” so that images are only saved when auto-detected. This is great; if every 10th photo has a note on the back, that scan is kept, but all the empty photo backs are discarded. The software is a little clunky to navigate, but powerful. It offers preset settings, with the option to customize scanning behavior in lots of ways, choose where photos are saved to, etc. I thought the default scans settings lost too much detail on under-exposed or dark photos, and I was able to tune the contrast and brightness to my liking.My workflow speed depends on how dusty my photos are, and how much I care about quality; small, nearly invisible motes can get stuck on the imaging surface and cause streaks until blown/wiped away. These streaks are usually most obvious on dark regions of pictures, and are even more visible after I increased scan brightness slightly, to preserve more detail for dark photos. I probably wouldn’t care about streaks for documents, but for my old photos, I want very few streaks. Therefore I watch the scanning app progress as photos feed through the scanner, and halt when streaks start to appear. The software warns you to clean after every 300 scans, but I needed to clean dust after every 10 photos on average. It only takes seconds to clean (I use a smaller “rocket air” hand pump and the provided wipe cloth), but I usually can’t just walk away for long, while scanning a huge stack of pictures. I provided a picture showing how the left portion of a dark photo scanned with a couple streaks (the bigger one is 10 pixels across), that went away after I cleaned and re-scanned the photo.I’ve scanned pictures of many sizes and thickness. Tiny 2x3cm photos work well with the included “contact sheet”. The feeder accepts pictures of many different sizes, but they tend to get more mis-aligned during the feeding if different widths are batched together. Postcards scan nicely when fed individually, but get jammed when stacked.I have hit a Win 10 CaptureOnTouch v4.12.2221.506 software bug that is pretty bad, and wanted to share a work-around. As I scan photos, the CaptureOnTouch app “buffers” them in a preview area. I can see thumbnails of each scan in the app, and select any thumbnail to view a large version. Users press a “Finish” button to copy all these buffered/previewable scans to the actual picture files in the export folder. So…the bug is that those buffered scans are saved in temp files on my main PC drive, but the app never deleting those temp files, even after a group of scans are “Finished” (exported to files). Those temp files are huge - about 100Mb each - probably because I scan at 1200 DPI. After I had scanned about 800 photos, my temp directory (and the entire C: drive hosting it) filled to capacity. Unable to write more buffered scans, CaptureOnTouch crashed, would only restart if I restarted Windows, and would crash again immediately after another scan. I had to manually delete the app temp files to create new space on the drive, and then the CaptureOnTouch app worked fine, as before. I think the “supported” way to delete temp files is by launching the “Windows Settings” window, typing “Delete Temporary Files”, and navigating through that process. I poked around and found the folder C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp was the one full of CaptureOnTouch files, and I manually deleted all the files there. I need to manually delete temp files regularly (for my drive, about every 800 scans or less). If I forget, the app will eventually crash again, and I will lose whatever batch of scans I had not already exported as image files…those files are in the temp folder, but in some internal format that I couldn’t figure out how to convert to jpeg. Please fix this, Canon!

Reviewer: Blue Moon in CA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works perfectly with my Mac
Review: This is quiet, efficient, and fast. I had to replace an older flatbed scanner and decided to go with this model, as I mainly do documents. It's easy to set up and get started. There are three pre-programmed settings for common type scans, but you can program an additional six scan types using the included software.I have not tried scanning a photograph, but I scanned a color document and it came out fantastic. I didn't do any touchups or anything. As for photographs, I usually do some editing anyway.For reference, I am using this scanner with a 2014 Mac Mini running OS 12. This works perfectly fine. I have never had a problem with Canon products as far as using them with my Apply computers.My only concern is that the trays are a bit flimsy. I recommend being careful with those if you need to pull them in and out too much.

Reviewer: jao
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Expected Quality - Got STREAKS!
Review: In fairness, the bright white line is from a defective, refurbished unit, but you can easily see the vertical streaks throughout the images. Canon has replaced the unit twice, I give them credit for that, but the issue has been consistent with all 3. Instead of a smooth flourescent light, they use numerous individual LEDs which each have a slightly different brightness. The streaks are in EVERY photo, but more apparent in some. 200 dpi, 600 dpi - same thing. I believe it is a design flaw. It IS fast at 200 dpi and can scan many, but who cares when they look like this. For $500 and a name brand like Canon, I expect QUALITY. They should either get a new light source or have diffused glass. The company has been good - this product is not.

Reviewer: Gene Boutilier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works well but setup learning curve
Review: It is fast and produces the desired variety of high resolution photos or faster lower resolution simple documents. Good at assorted sizes of images. Can direct scans to many many destinations. Down side it of necessity occupies a lot of precious desk space ( the real desk, not the computer “desktop” page.$

Reviewer: Mosier Bill
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: easy to use but the image depth is much less than a canon flatbed scanner
Review: It was very easy to install. Software likewise. Very very easy to use. The only issue I have, and it's a big one, is that the dark colors lack definition. So if I have a picture of a person with a lot of trees in the back ground, the leaves will be almost all one shade - you don't see the leaves. When I scan the same photo with a canon laser multifunction flatbed scanner, the backgrounds come out beautifully. I presume this is something to do with the number of bits in a pixel. If there is a way to change this, I certainly can not find it. So it's a bit disappointing. I will use the RS40 for quick scans but I will have to go back to the flat bed for the important photos. I gave it a reasonable rating because for the price it does what it does in a nice way.

Reviewer: RM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice compact scanner
Review: Fast scans. Does not work with all computers. My primary work PC is older which I found would not detect the scanner. After chasing my tail for a couple of hours I set it up on a different PC which is a few years newer. It worked on first try.Went on Canon's Web site and found some chip sets are not supported as in my case. I up dated to the newest drivers available but did not correct the detection problem.This not a huge issue for me as I have 5 computers to use. The scanner is fast, great images.My plan is to empty my file cabinets by scanning in all my records. With the speed of this scanner I feel I can get through the scanning in short order.

Reviewer: JonVin
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I purchase this scanner with high hopes. Unfortunatly, the image quality, even after trying all kinds of settings combinations , just wasn't good enough. I have several Canon flat bed scanners and multi-function printer/scanners, but really needed decent automated scanning to speed up the processing of hundreds of photographic prints. Compared to the results from a Canon 9000F Mark II, the colours are overly saturated and muddy, and the blacks are blotchy. The colours do not adequately represent the actual colours of the source photo. Too bad, but I have had to return it.

Reviewer: Gustavo Vega Vazquez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muy buen equipo para escanear rápidamente documentos y fotografías. Hasta ahora he escaneado mas 150 fotografías de todos tamaños con diferentes ajustes de brillo, contraste, resolución, etc. y todo perfecto. Se han quejado de que raya o deja marcas en las fotos, pero no es así, la clave es limpiar de polvo las imágenes o documentos antes de escanearlos y también asegurarse de no introducir fotos o documentos rotos ni con dobleces. Altamente recomendable y mucho ahorro de dinero comparado contra el scanner de Epson

Reviewer: Diane Fraser
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Unable to use with a Mac even though it was advertised it could be.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very fast shipping. We could not get the program to run on our windows 11 computor. We tried all the online fixes we could find. It would run on our old windows 10 computor though. We didn't like the scanned photo quality, we thought the brightness & colors weren't right. We tried the adjustments, but were still unsatisfied with the photos. Plus you should be aware, that if its a 3rd party seller without the Prime logo, you will have to pay shipping chgs to return it.