Plastic pollution has become a major threat to marine and terrestrial organisms and habitats worldwide. In particular, the study of microplastics (¡ 5 mm in length) in different environmental matrices often requires routine quantification, measurement and classification, especially during the analysis of high-throughput monitoring data. However, most of current protocols rely on time-consuming and biased counting and classification of microplastics. To address this problem, we propose a novel simple and inexpensive method for accelerating laboratory processing of microplastic samples using a modified common flatbed scanner coupled with a custom-built and open-source ImageJ/Fiji macro plugin, named MicroPlastic Scan Tool (MPScanTool). By the superposition of bright-field and dark-field scans and precise image alignment and we achieve major accuracy (¿90%) detecting microplastics down to 0.15 mm in length at a 1200 dpi (47,2 pixels mm-1) scan resolution, and are able to differentiate between transparent or translucent and opaque microplastics in 95% of the cases. By color calibrating the flatbed scanner (i.e. by means of an IT8.7 Target) and using standard color charts we achieve a color classification of microplastics with 92% of accuracy at an average processing rate of 300 plastics/minute. MPScanTool provides semi-automatic counting and particle categorization of microplastic samples and automatic file management, data processing, and color determination, thus accelerating microplastic sample processing, improving data quality and reducing visual subjectivity during sample treatment.