Epson’s got a new consumer scanner out which will cost you around $100 and offers 4,800 dpi optical resolution. It’s called the Perfection V300 Photo and you should find it available now.

Epson’s Perfection V300 Photo scanner sports a high-rise, 180 degree lid for better accessibility to items you want to scan. It offers your typical one-touch scanning with four buttons and comes with LED technology that “enables fast scan speeds and eliminates warm-up both when starting a scan or when switching between reflective and film scanning.” Also built-in are four scan modes to accommodate …

Xerox has in its product line up today a new desktop document scanner which can scan up to 50 images per minute. It is called the Xerox DocuMate 162 and it runs around $695 .

The Xerox DocuMate 162 comes with a 50-page automatic document feeder and is designed to handle most kinds of documents. It includes a one-touch button so you can scan to the “destination” you so desire, be it to email, the hard drive or another application.

Xerox today rolled out a low end USB flatbed scanner for photo enthusiasts. It is called the Xerox 7600 and it prices for around $100.

The Xerox 7600 is capable of scanning up to 1200 x 1200 dpi in 48-bit color. It has one-touch scanning technology and includes front buttons to scan, copy, OCR, email and custom. These buttons are pre-configured to more effectively do their specific tasks.

Yo, peeps - check this out! We’ve got a new Plustek scanner in the house! Sorry, can’t really think of another way to introduce a boring scanner. Anyhow, Plustek is making available its new OpticBook 4600 book scanner for all your illegal book copying needs for around $700.

The Plustek OpticBook 4600 has special technology and design to let you scan right up to where the book spine is placed. These scans can be done directly to a connected hard drive or other portable storage media. You can also save the scans in a searchable PDF format.

Fujitsu has announced a new mobile scanner designed for Mac users. It is called the Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M and it prices around $295.

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M is a color, duplex ADF (automatic document feeder) scanner which works with Mac OS X Leopard. It can work via USB connectivity and offers which Fujitsu says is one touch conversion of paper documents into PDF files. It measures a compact 11.2” x 3.7” x 3.0” and weighs a little over three pounds.

While we aren’t quite sure how many people are out there who are interested in digitizing their book collections Atiz Innovation seems to think there are enough to warrant creating a device for this crowd. This new product is called the BookSnap and it is priced at around $1,600.

The Atiz BookSnap takes the form of a v-shaped book cradle which you place your book in, flipping it one page at a time. It makes use of digital camera technology and OCR software to digitize books reportedly upwards of 500 pages per hour. Other included software is used to crop and adjust the pages, outputting the final product as a PDF file.

Artemis Solutions Group, through its BioCert division of of fingerprint security devices, is making available a new fingerprint reader for small business and home computer users. The BioCert PCLokR Pro 1610 is priced at around $40 and available now.

The BioCert PCLokR Pro 1610 incorporates a new slide fingerprint sensor which BioCert says is very accurate. It’s a small fingerprint reader which supports up to 25 users desiring to login into a particular PC. A slightly more expensive bundle version comes with PC security software.

Visioneer, a developer of imaging solutions, is out today with a slim, USB-powered color flatbed scanner. The new OneTouch 7400 USB scanner is priced at around $100 and available now.

The Visioneer OneTouch 7400 USB offers the ability to scan up to 1200×1200 dpi in 48-bit color. Five buttons on the body of the scanner let you scan, copy, OCR, email and do a custom task. These five functions are geared towards doing the entire process in one touch, says Visioneer, and not just opening an application.

This is the Docupen RC800 Professional (DPEN-RC800), and it allows you to scan documents on the go. It is complelely battery powered, so there are no cords, and it is able to scan an entire page in black and white or in color, in only 4 seconds. You can also choose to scan at standard or high 24 bit color resolution, and choose from 100 to 400 dpi. The docupen will hold over 100 pages while doing this and can transfer it into included Paperport software which helps manage and combine the pages into …