Portable High Definition Book Document Scanner, Max A3 Size, Only for Windows

So I was very hesitate to purchase this at first because of the cost. However, I am so glad I did. I wanted to wait a few weeks before giving a review. I needed to make sure this product actually worked. I wished it would have been priced a little less but it is definitely worth the $299.00! So here is what I love:1. Easy to install with the CD2. Program works on my Lenevo and Dell Computer like a charm!3. There is a Users Guide Book and walks you through everything. It was nice to have a book to and not have to download instructions.4. The picture quality is absolutely AMAZING! I have scanned color and black/white and it does a great job.5. The scan book option is unbelievable. There is an option to remove your fingers when you are holding the pages. It does exactly that!6. I love the fact that you can take the scanner and mat and use it on multiple computers. We have 3 computers in our home and everyone can use it with their own computer.7. It Does WORK with Zoom. I was able to teach a class and I had no issues. However, you have to use the Zoom option of "sharing screen" for it to work. There maybe another way but I have not been able to figure it out yet8. There are SO MANY OPTIONS I have the whole summer to play around with the scanner and see what it can do!9. Well worth the money!

I've used book scanners before, but the older kind. I've had this thing for several hours now and I've scanned two hardback books that are searchable, so I am pretty happy with it. Both of the books are black and white with no photos, so its the simplest case, but it works.If you are going scan anything glossy, the built in light wont work - you'll have to provide two lamps or even flashlights at a 45 degree angle for each page in order to get rid of glare.The software installation is a bit foreign, but you can get through it ok. The page flattening feature works well, and the "remove fingertip" works ok, but sometimes leaves a slight shadow where the fingertip was, and has a hard time with page edges. I recommend getting some of those rubber fingertips you can get at an office supply place, because if you skip a page, its not so easy to correct later.I used an old laptop to do the processing, with which all went well. After you've taken all the images, you can export the book as a pdf and that is when it does the OCR which is heavily compute bound. Nevertheless, it only took about 6 minutes to export a full 300 page text with the OCR on my modest laptop. All my scanning was done at night in a dark room with the device supplying the lighting, and it was sufficient for the regular books i scanned.I did have to spend about an hour or so playing with the settings to see what effect they had on the resulting pages. Good documentation would have more of this "usage advice" than what is provided, so I knocked it down a star for that and the oversimplified lighting, but overall it's a keeper.

My husband scanned one page from his photo album. It recognized 4 individual photos from the page, automatically cropped and saved each as its own. It saved a single phot with all of them when I chose ‘single page’. Photos didn’t look as sharp as the ones taken by my SLR camera, bot since I didn’t use it for scanning photos, it doesn’t bother me.I watched the video of the product before the purchase and there are some pretty neat features, I have used some of them and so far I am very happy with the scanner.

I purchased this scanner about 6 months ago.Picture quality: not good. I thought that I was going to see a resolution of 17mp. it looks more like 7mp.Software: really bad. the website to download it is corrupted, you will get a virus if you tried to downloaded from their website. you must use the disc that coms with it, and there are no updates.Software automatically closes while scanning books which makes the usefulness of this apparatus useless.Final text scanned document comes out with a mixture of letters and symbols all the time. This makes the scanned book useless.Only was able to used it in non-recognizable text mode. But, again, if the software keeps closing by itself, what use does it have?The light is reflective in the paper which renders the page with blurry-in -contrast useless.I want to throw it away. what a waste of my money.

I am a stamp collector and I bought this book scanner assuming that I could quickly scan my large, bulky stamp albums. Creating a PDF file where I could rapidly find and closely examine individual stamps without having open the stamp albums.The first problem I encountered was with the page flattening function. The manual was reasonably clear about how the flatten option was supposed to operate, but I simply could not get a flattened page, regardless of how many attempts I made at it.The second problem, and the primary reason I decided to return the scanner is that the image resolution for the page was very poor, I guess that it is around 150dpi and it could not be increased. The scanned page was barely adequate to view an individual page, however I need to examine each stamp mounted on the page in great detail. With a apparent page resolution of 150 dpi, a 2X zoom of an individual stamp was unusable and at 3X a stamp turns into a colored blob.The camera sensor is claimed to be 17MP, so I have to assume the resolution issue is with the included "Scanline" software. My Epson flatbed scanner can easily give me a 600++dpi scan, which allows me to clearly see a stamp's detail at 3X or better zoom levels. The problem for me is that the Epson flatbed scanner is very slow, and in order to scan to each page, the page has to be removed from the album.This book scanner may work great for someone with different needs, but for me it was a waste of time.