On top of what everyone else said, if you’re scanning something like a book, holding it upside-down on a scanner bed and pressing it flat will give you a much better scan than holding it open with your hand right-side up so you can get a phone photo of it.
People with essential tremor perhaps? There is ZERO point me trying to scan something with a handheld scanner because it’s a blurred mess every time. Flatbed all the way. Or perhaps a tripod mount for the handheld scanner.
Who the hell still scans documents with a multifunction printer. There are multiple apps on your phone that do that a lot better!
A phone app may be convenient but it’s nowhere near the quality of a true scanner
People who actually scan more than one page per year.
Nothing comes close to a scanner with a sheet feeder for this job.
Those are okay until you need to scan a stack of papers… then you’ll wish you had a scanner with a feed tray
Try scanning a ton of documents with your phone instead of a document feeder. It’ll take forever and you’ll probably have to redo a few pages.
On top of what everyone else said, if you’re scanning something like a book, holding it upside-down on a scanner bed and pressing it flat will give you a much better scan than holding it open with your hand right-side up so you can get a phone photo of it.
How the hell do you know what apps are on my phone?
People with essential tremor perhaps? There is ZERO point me trying to scan something with a handheld scanner because it’s a blurred mess every time. Flatbed all the way. Or perhaps a tripod mount for the handheld scanner.