- #PLUSTEK SCANNER OPTICBOOK 4800 DRIVER#
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It can't match a V-shaped scanner like the Atiz BookDrive Mini in speed, convenience, and the ability to safely scan delicate originals, but it can scan slightly larger books and it costs a lot less.
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It is worth considering by libraries and other institutions looking for a scanner to copy and archive books.
#PLUSTEK SCANNER OPTICBOOK 4800 SOFTWARE#
There's a lot to like about the Plustek OpticBook A300: its large scan area, the ability to scan to the edge of the platen, software that correctly orients facing pages, and relatively fast speed for a flatbed-based book scanner. I also tried some photo scanning: although the scans weren't up to photo-scanner quality, they were still quite good. The good news is that the combination of the scanner and Abbyy FineReader Sprint 9.0 did very well in optical character recognition (OCR), reading our Times New Roman test file down to 6 points with no errors, and our Ariel test file at 6 points with a couple of dropped periods but no other errors. Colors looked bright and reasonably true some grayscale scans showed added shadow.Īs it is a flatbed scanner lacking an automatic document feeder, the A300 isn't ideal for scanning multipage documents, as you have to open the cover, replace the page with a new one, and close the cover when scanning each new page. This is faster than the OpticBook 4800's nine-second prescan and nine-second scan time average at the same resolution. (With book pages, it's wise to preview the scans, as books can easily get knocked out of alignment.) Including the time spent turning the page and positioning the book on the platen, you should be able to scan at a rate of about 2.5 pages per minute. I timed the A300 in scanning book pages at an average of 6.5 seconds per 300 dpi grayscale page after an average 5.7-second pre-scan. In testing book scanning, I initiated scans both from the Book Pavilion scanning utility (which lets you scan to different file types and resolutions, choose between different sources: books, magazines, newspapers, art magazines, select filenames, automatically rotate pages or not) and from the scan buttons.
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The A300 has pretty much the same software as the Plustek OpticBook 38: Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint for optical character recognition (OCR) Newsoft Presto! PageManager and Plustek's own DI Capture 1.0 for document management Presto! ImageFolio 4.5 for photo editing a Twain driver for scanning directly from most Windows programs that include a scan command and Book Pavilion, a book-scanning program. This makes for speedy scanning while reducing the risk of damaging delicate originals. After the facing pages are shot by twin DSLRs, you lift the platen, flip the page, and shoot the next spread. A v-shaped retractable platen holds the pages in place. With such a scanner, you place the book, pages facing upward, in a v-shaped cradle.
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This is an issue that is avoided by V-shaped book scanners such as the Atiz Mini. There's some risk that the book could fall if you don't watch it closely (when you open the lid, or by jostling the scanner), so an alternative is to move the scanner away from the table's edge and have the facing side rest on the table. This eliminates shadows at the binding, minimizes distortion, and helps the text lines to stay straight. When the A300 is placed at the edge of a table or desk, the book can lie flat on the platen, with the spine at the edge, and the facing side of the book hanging straight down. The flatbed's design helps eliminate distortion, as the platen glass comes right up to the edge of the scanner, the main hardware feature that distinguishes it from a conventional flatbed scanner.