Reviews for Canon CanoScan LiDE 700F Color Image Scanner

I found it worked fine with download of current Canon drivers. But then it was not recognized by Image Capture until I removed the Canon drivers. Works fine now with Image Capture which is a handy scanner software bundled into Snow Leopard. I use it mainly for scanning photos. If I set Image Capture to "Detect Separate Items" it will separate out a group of multiple photos and drop them as individual jpegs into the designated file; a big help when scanning piles of photos. I would like to know if a comparable "Detect Separate Items" feature is available on a PC and/or other Mac software. Another handy feature of the LiDE 700F is power via the USB.2 cable which eliminates an additional power cord.

130 of 137 people found this useful

Very pleased with this purchase. Very nicely made, quick, and after a week, no problems. Like some other reviewers, I use it with Image Capture, which requires no additional software. If you require more extensive functions, the Canon software provides them – if you're prepared to wade through their rather complicated setup process.

49 of 50 people found this useful

As a number of other reviewers had advised I did not bother with the Canon install CD, never used it. Plugged in the USB connector, started Image Capture- which recognized the scanner immediately. Wonderful scans the first time. Well pleased.

37 of 37 people found this useful

I use this with a couple machines. one running Lion, where the scanner is responsive and nicely integrated with the system os. But on snow leopard, you are going to have to fiddle with it and reboot a few times to be able to use it. I would say at least half the time i press one of the function keys on the scanner it works. when it doesn't sometimes unplugging the usb cable a few times gets it to recognize the scanner, but if that doesn't work you need to reboot and use the scanner apparently before the computer falls asleep. a complete PITA.
That said, when it works ... it seems pretty good. If you are on lion, i would say yes.
anything else .... um, not so much.

28 of 28 people found this useful

Works fine with Image Capture until the Mac goes to sleep. When it wakes up you have to unplug the USB cable and plug it back in. Image Capture reports that "Scanner reported an error", "An error occurred while communicating with the scanner". The updated driver does not fix this issue.

Scan quality is OK, but the way the interface is written I have a tendency to overwrite the last scan file with the newest one without warning.

21 of 23 people found this useful

After 8 hours with Apple care, and more with Canon support. The scanner still only works for continues scans, If you should need to walk away for more then 5 mins you have to reboot the computer, or unplug the scanner. I have tried Apple Logging IOUSB kext, i have tried using developer tools USB prober to reset the MAC USB buss. I have reset the SMC PRAM, I have tried countless IOUSB kexts , Several version of Canon software, and even several version of Canon IJscanner 1 and 2 OS kernal interface. I was not even aware of all the files that i have become aware of with this scanner. I have tried a modification to a Arch=x86_64 for a 64 bit Kernel and 32bit kernel I have been working on trying to make this scanner working so long now, it can not be returned. I will have to buy another one.(it will not be a canon) I still do not know if the issue (on all 4 Macs running snow, New Imac, New Mac book pro, Mac mini Server running Snow server, Mac Pro tower) is an apple USB bus sleeping issue or a canon driver issue. here is the Canon official response:
Dear XXXX:

In some cases, coming out of sleep mode may not properly reinitialize
the USB bus on Macintosh Operating Systems. Unfortunately, the only
work around when this happens is to restart the computer.

Of course this in not exactly true as logging out and back in fixes it.

this was the response despite my explaining the Mac did not need to sleep for it to not work.

22 of 28 people found this useful

The info on this scanner is somewhat misleading in that it says it will do 35mm film. This, plus another comment on this site led me to believe it would scan 35mm slides. Not so, and confirmed by a call to Canon. Since scanning 35mm slides was my reason for buying this scanner, it was useless to me. Fortunately Apple's easy return allowed me to exchange it for another Canon model which will handle 35mm slides.

12 of 17 people found this useful

Chose this scanner because of resolution and USB powered. Apple shipped it in its original box - no shipping box. The box came badly damaged and ugly tape all over the box. The scanner was missing two of its rubber feet. Tried it for a few days and discovered that it might have a limit on the area it can scan based on resolution - the larger the resolution the smaller the selected scan area has to be otherwise "scanner reports an error" message will come up and cannot scan. Reduce the scan area or drop the resolution and you are good to go. No information on this on the Internet - just my haunch. I will give it two stars because I am a fan of Apple although I expected better shipping. Lion readily recognizes the scanner and uses it. Canon does not have its own drivers for Lion. The disk that came with it does not run with Lion - thank Goodness. Returning this one and continuing to shop around.

7 of 9 people found this useful