Customer Reviews for Canon imageFORMULA RS40 USB Duplex Overhead Photo Scanner, White (5209C001)
Item # : 24508982
Model # : 5209C001
Easy to Set Up and Use
- 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
Price is $517.49
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154 reviews
Most helpful positive review
Posted Aug 8, 2022
Perfect For Quick Photo Scanning!
The Canon imageFormula RS40 Photo and Document Scanner is perfect for quickly scanning photos and documents for easy organizing and clutter cleanup! I was very happy with how easy and clear the instructions were to follow. Set up was super easy. The feature that scans both sides, even in color, at the same time.
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Posted Jun 3, 2023
Good Luck...
An expensive piece of machinery and time consuming venture in getting this to connect. New, high end computer will not read the USB connection from the scanner. Have spend hours going through the troubleshooting guides online and have tried every suggestion there is. One of the suggestions from Canon... try using a different computer. This is one is brand new dell -...
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Stephen77
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Posted Mar 14, 2025
Good for documents when recognized
This device is great for scanning documents if you're lucky enough to get it recognized by your machine. It is very trick to get it recognized by my PC and using the register repair download works sometimes, sometimes not. The color processing for photos oversaturates the colors and as others have noted cannot be disabled.
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Posted Oct 31, 2024
Returned - did not work well
Did not remove red eye as it said. The scans came out very dark, even with adjustments.
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Kupuna
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Posted Sep 2, 2024
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Instructions for basic procedure are NOT TOO clear. You need to write instructions for an eight grade level.
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Jim S
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Posted Apr 10, 2024
Works well for grey scale (black and white) photo's
The color correction is not very good and does not distorts human subjects at times. If there was a way of totally disabling the color correction and let the user use Photoshop for this task it would be great. If you are only doing gray scale (i.e. black and white) this can be worked around a bit. I am going to be using this scanner mainly for very old BW and old docum...
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Pablo Easter
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Posted Mar 4, 2024
Works great
Works great for paper notes and photos. Easy setup.
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Steveo663
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Posted Dec 20, 2023
Ease of use
Easy to use and set up very happy with it so far I have hundreds of pictures to do.
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Staples Customer
Posted Oct 27, 2023
I was expecting more from Canon
It certainly is a nice scanner but it's performance leaves a lot to be desired. First I do not like the scan app. It is very difficult to name your documents easily. Have to go thru a weird process that is not simple or easy to use. There is also an issue with whether the scanner in cannon app or even in Adobe recognized double sided documents or not. With regard to ...
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Minwur
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Posted Jun 17, 2023
piece of garbage
this scanner is bad. it is slow the colors are way off from the original and no combination of settings seems to fix it. i have used other bulk scanners and i have to say this is the worst. the only redeeming thing about it is that it scans things in the proper order to keep them organized but the software doesn't create subfolders even when prompted to.
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Shafsco
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Canon
Posted Jun 3, 2023
Good Luck...
An expensive piece of machinery and time consuming venture in getting this to connect. New, high end computer will not read the USB connection from the scanner. Have spend hours going through the troubleshooting guides online and have tried every suggestion there is. One of the suggestions from Canon... try using a different computer. This is one is brand new dell -...
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AllieG24
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Posted Aug 8, 2022
Perfect For Quick Photo Scanning!
The Canon imageFormula RS40 Photo and Document Scanner is perfect for quickly scanning photos and documents for easy organizing and clutter cleanup! I was very happy with how easy and clear the instructions were to follow. Set up was super easy. The feature that scans both sides, even in color, at the same time.
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Mommyof4in2
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Posted Apr 1, 2022
Wonderful!
This Canon Image Formula RS40 image and document scanner works great! I was able to scan photos of my parents and grandparents from the 1980s into my computer and the quality was great! I love that i now have them on a flash drive nice and safe!
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Taggit
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Posted Feb 28, 2022
Great for converting regular photos
This thing is a powerhouse for scanning lots of typical sized photos. I would hesitate to use this if I were scanning priceless, or older photos (pre-90s. The machine does a lot of the work for you by pulling images through, but the mechanism is a bit aggressive and a few photos had visible marks on them after moving through. If you need to save time, don't care about p...
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Mrsblackhammer8487
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Posted Feb 26, 2022
Love it
I absolutely love this little scanner it has helped me scan in so many old pictures so I have them saved on my computer as well in case something were to happen and if you have a student who needs to scan homework this is right up your alley my daughter has used it to scan some of her work in for her school dashboard it works super fast and doesn’t take forever to scan
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Larry177
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Posted Feb 23, 2022
Great scanner
The cannon image formula RS40 is major time saver compared to the old way where you used to have to do one photo at a time. Being able to put a bunch of photos at ones and once and flow thru the process quickly. The scan quality is pretty dang good too.
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Mjgdude
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Posted Feb 22, 2022
Compact and clear
I got this photo scanner about a month ago because I literally have boxes of photos I want to digitize to preserve them and also free up some space in my house. The first thing I noticed is the size of scanner, was very compact and did not take up much space. It was very easy to setup and software was also a breeze to setup. I was scanning photos in no time and it was f...
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Nomad44
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Posted Feb 16, 2022
Easy to use!
This scanner is incredibly easy to setup and use. There are a bunch of protective material to remove, cables to connect, and software to download, but then it’s one-click to scan. The scan itself doesn’t look identical to the print. I’m guessing it takes some manipulation once scanned that I didn’t want to mess with. Otherwise, it’s compact and has a simple interface to...
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henry33
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Posted Feb 11, 2022
Compact
I received the CanonUSA - imageFORMULA RS40 Photo and Document Scanner to try and review. Like a lot of offices working semi-remotely and trying to be as paperless as possible, a scanner is a must have. This scanner is perfect, compact and scans well producing clear images without jamming.
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LizKin
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Canon
Posted Feb 10, 2022
Saved the Day!
I'm in the process of moving and literally had boxes of old photos that I wasn't sure what to do with. I didn't want to get rid of them but they take up a lot of space and weigh a ton. Thanks to this scanner I was able to digitize stacks of pictures in no time. It was super easy to setup, scan and the quality is fantastic. The best part is that I get keep all of my ...
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Angi75
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Posted Feb 9, 2022
Must have for any home office!
This is a great addition to my home office! Not only can I use it to scan documents for work but I can also scan all my family pictures into my computer and have them all in a safe place in case I lose the physical photos. It’s lightweight and a perfect size for my desk. Definitely recommend!
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Noni
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Posted Feb 8, 2022
Transfer Photo
I received the Canon Photo image formula and I love the size of the Scanner. It very lightweight and easy to install. I also can scan photo to documents on my computer. I would definitely recommend this product.
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