Canon Lide 100 Scanner Driver

When all-in-ones (AIOs) first started taking over from single-function inkjets in a big way several years ago, a lot of people predicted that flatbed scanners for home use would fade away. Instead, scanners have held their own, mostly by upping resolution in new models and adding the ability to scan film.

Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 driver is the program that enables laptop computer to connect with your printer. Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 driver is readily available for free download on our website. This genuinely is easy, device at its best.

The Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 ($59.99 direct) follows a different strategy, delivering reasonably high-quality photo scans at a budget price. If you need a standalone scanner for photos and don't need to scan film, the LiDE 100 is an all but irresistible bargain, making it a clear Editors' Choice for a budget scanner. Aside from Twain and WIA drivers, which will let the scanner work with almost any Windows software that includes a scan command, the only programs bundled with the LiDE 100 are ArcSoft Photo Studio 5.5 and Canon's MP Navigator EX scan utility. MP Navigator EX includes an optical character recognition (OCR) feature that can turn a scanned text document into a searchable PDF file, but it's well short of a full-featured OCR program.

The utility's main purpose is to scan and send the results to various destinations ranging from files to e-mail attachments. It also offers its own set of photo-related features for enhancing scanned photos. Setting up the LiDE 100 is easy: Install the software, and plug in the USB cable that comes with the scanner. You don't even need to plug in a power cord, since the scanner gets power over the USB cable. I installed the scanner on a Windows XP system.

According to Canon, the installation disc also includes drivers and a full set of software for Vista, Windows 2000, and Mac OS 10.3.9 through 10.5.x. Using the scanner is almost as easy as setting it up, with several options for giving a scan command. The obvious choice is to press one of the four buttons on the front panel: Copy, Email, PDF, or Scan.

You can also choose from a similar set of options in one of the MP Navigator EX screens, or you can manually choose a document type (color photo, black-and-white photo, color document, black-and-white document, magazine, or text), optionally change the resolution or other settings, and then start the scan. By default, the scan is fully automatic, not even stopping to show a preview. If you want some control over the settings, however, a check box lets you tell the utility to launch the Twain driver so you can preview and adjust settings before the actual scan. The driver itself lets you choose between scanning in Fully Automatic mode—equivalent to a point-and-shoot mode in a camera—Basic mode with just a few options, or an Advanced mode that lets you control such settings as black point, white point, saturation, and color balance. The driver also provides several digital enhancement options that make it easy to improve on the original. A color restore feature, for example, did a good job on my tests of reviving colors in faded photos.