W hile Canon's CanoScan 8800F and Epson's V600 battle it out in the sub-$200 flatbed film scanner sweepstakes, Canon has quietly trumped them both with its highest resolution film flatbed ever: the CanonScan 9000F.

The Bottom Line It's big, and the buttons are a bit cryptic, but the CanoScan 9000F does a fine job scanning documents, photos, and magazine images. Optical character recognition was spotty at lower resolutions, but seemed to improve at higher resolution; however, the end product of OCR scans comes...

Scans up to 11.7-inch documents; On-board button choices for easy conversion to PDF or send to e-mail; Comes with good suite of software; including Adobe Photoshop Elements

Large footprint; So-so OCR at low resolutions

I have used the scanner several times since it arrived and the quality of the pictures scanned were remarkable. The ease of use is a snap, I can scan several pictures at one time and they will separate the pictures that are on the screen.

print quality; design; size & weight; Easy Installation/Good Instructions; compatibility; build quality; speed; value for money; easy to use

Canon's new Canoscan 9000F is a replacement for the excellent 8800F scanner, which has been in our Best Buys list since we reviewed it back in 2008.

One step up in Canon's line from the CanoScan 8800F ($199.99 direct, ) that I reviewed two years ago, the CanoScan 9000F Film and Negative Scanner ($249.99 direct) is Canon's latest high-end consumer-level flatbed scanner.

Fast, high-quality scans for prints and 35mm slides; LED light source largely eliminates warm-up time

Has trouble handling strips of film correctly

I have good experience with Canon products. I own two Canonscan LIDe 25 scanners and I used them heavily. One of them I take with me when I travel. They proved to be workhorses. The Canonscan 9000f works great and I have been scanning my black and white films.

Accurate Color; Easy Setup; Excellent Software; Good Bit Depth; Good Resolution; Widely Compatible

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For the money, this is a great scanner for digitizing your old film negatives with decent results. Overall, I am pretty happy, but the software could be a lot better. I could not justify paying 10x more for a dedicated film scanner for slightly sharper results.

Reflective (platen) scanning is very high quality and very quick at 300dpi - Film holders work well - Batch scanning of film

- 35mm scans come out looking a bit soft even with Unsharp Mask turned on; Fine details does not show up that well compared to a dedicated film scanner - Image quality for film scanning actually gets worse beyond 5000dpi.

Canon's one-year warranty on the CanoScan 9000F is longer than that offered by some other brands. Customers praised the company's support for hardware issues, but they complain that the company offers no support for the software that it ships with the scanner, including the Canon-produced drivers...

High resolution (up to 9,600 dpi; Fast; Versatile; Includes Photoshop Elements

Bulky; Canon's software could be better

I bought this scanner about 5 months ago after inquiring about the price to professionally scan some 50-year old B&W negatives. The price seemed prohibitive and I had lots more negatives and slides to scan, so the conversation quickly turned to scanners.

An excellent replacement for a smaller Canon scanner. Bought specifically to scan transparencies and negatives as my old one didn't. Drivers installed without problem and I was up and working very quickly.