Product DescriptionMODEL- OPTICBOOK3600 VENDOR- PLUSTEK
FEATURES- OpticBook 3600 Scanner
Introducing a simple, innovative solution to scanning books...
With Plustek's patent pending SEE (Shadow Elimination Element)
Technology, any book can lie completely flat on the scanning glass.
The result is a perfectly scanned image with no annoying book spine
shadow and no distorted lines of text.
In contrast to professional book scanners which are targeted mainly
for large libraries, archive museums, and corporations with big
budgets, OpticBook 3600 offers an affordable solution for all
libraries, copy rooms,students, teachers, universities, SOHO, law
offices, publicists, and work groups.
Includes Scanner, Quick guide, Power adapter, User manual (PDF file),
59" USB cable.
Value in a Clever Design
The OpticBook 3600 brings affordable value in its unique design,
eliminating the book spine shadow and text distortion of traditional
book copying and scanning. Our clever design avoids the need for a
large, expensive overhead scanner or complicated image-editing software.
For Everyone
Whereas professional book scanners target mainly at large libraries,
museums, or corporations with big budgets, our book scanner is
affordable to individuals, students, families or small group users as
well.
Multifunction one-touch buttons
7 one-touch buttons are designed to make your scanning easy and
efficient, whether you're using bound originals (e.g., books, magazines)
or normal paper (e.g., photos, documents). With just one touch, you can
save the scanned images or convert images of the text document into text
files that can be edited with a word processor. You may also choose to
send them to another application for further editing, to a printer, or
to a new e-mail message as attached files.
SEE Technology
Plustek's patent pending SEE (Shadow Elimination Element) Technology
includes a specially designed edge and lamp. This revolutionary
technology allows half of the book to lay completely flat on the glass
with the binding against the corner edge.
USB 2.0 high speed connection
Fast scan speed 7 sec. for an A4-size color, grayscale, B/W scan at
300 dpi.
Reversible Reflective Document Mat built into the lid. White backing for
normal scanning, black for auto cropping and clearer scans of thin pages.
Intellilock lock/unlock mechanism protects the scanner's valuable optical
system.
Ergonomic desktop design to ease physical strain
Categorizing the scanned images for easy data retrieval
Combining multiple images into one file at the user's option, just like
one chapter consisting of several pages.
Publish to CD or VCD
User-friendly Book Pilot software properly rotates and saves the page
images in correct order.
-- SPECIFICATIONs -----------------------------------
INTERFACE/BUS- USB 2.0
TECHNOLOGY - Color CCD Image Sensor
RESOLUTION - Hardware : 1200 dpi
Interpolated: 24,000 dpi
SCAN MODES - Color : Input 48-bit; Output 24/48-bit
Grayscale : Input 16-bit; Output 8/16-bit
B/W : 1-bit
SCAN AREA - Max. Flatbed: 216 x 297 mm (8.5" x 11.69", A4/ Letter Size)
SCAN TYPE - Single pass
LAMP - Cold Cathode
ACTION BUTTONS-
Regular : Custom, E-Mail, Copy, OCR, Scan
Book Scan : Book Pilot, Preview, Color Scan, Grayscale
Scan, Text Scan.
SOFTWARE - Includes NewSoft Presto! PageManager
" Ulead Photo Impact XL SE
" Ulead Photo Explorer 8.0 SE
" ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Sprint
REQUIREMENTS - IBM Compatible PC, with Pentium 166 MHz or faster CPU
CD-ROM Driver
One available USB Port
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
500 MB free HDD space
High Color graphic card (VGA or higher)
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000
APPROVALS - CE, FCC, UL/cUL, TUV
POWER SOURCE - 110 Volt AC Power adapter
Consumption: 18W (operation), 4.3W (idle)
DIMENSIONS - 11"w x 4"h x 18"d WT.- 8.5 lbs.
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-06-21  
Unique solution to book scanning problem, but not yet perfect
If you have to scan books, this is probably the best option below a few thousand dollars. It indeed scans book pages without the dark lines around the binding line. If you have pages with contents printed very close to the binding line, you may have to adjust the scanning area and the book position, but most of the time, you have more than 5mm of blank margin near the binding line, and there is no problem.
The image quality, build quality, scan speed, etc. compare with a general purpose flatbed scanner of 1/4 the price. If your main application is not scanning books, I do not recommend this scanner.
One problem with this scanner is that it requires Microsoft Windows environment to work. It does not work with Vuescan on Mac or Linux. The only solution is to use a virtualization software (e.g., Parallels or VMware) or use Bootcamp function of MacOS Leopard, and run a copy of windows. If you do this, the scanner works fine on Mac OS.
Another problem is that the software is not very good. It is buggy and awkward.
However, these problems may be ok if you set up perfectly and keep scanning the whole book.
Another problem is that this scanner is very slow. It takes 8 seconds to scan a page at 300dpi and then 4 more seconds before start scanning the next page. This is more time than I need to manually flip the page and place the book. The scanner needs improvement in this area. Ideally, I want the scan to complete in 3 seconds and proceed to the next scan in 1 second. If this is realized with less than doubling of the price, I'd give it a 4.5 star rating.
I use this scanner to scan old, borrowed, out-of-print books in the field of my research. If the book is currently in print, or abundant in used market, I think it is best to buy a second copy, break the binding, and scan it through ScanSnap or similar document scanner. This way, you can save a lot of work and time. The desktop ScanSnap is a truly a 5-star product for scanning documents.
Another area this scanner can be limiting is the scanning area. It can scan US letter size or ISO A4 size. However, some magazines and art monographs use page size larger than what this scanner can handle. What would be very nice is an ultrafast tabloid scanner that uses SEE technology and real TWAIN interface and works with any scanner software. Such a product may cost 4x the price but I'd be happy to use one. |  | Reviewed on 2008-05-27
Plustek OpticBook 3600 - Nothing Like It
If you've ever tried to scan from a book, as opposed to a flat piece of paper, then you know all the problems involved.
This scanner is the perfect answer. No matter the size of the book or its thickness, you will get perfect scans with no problems.
Of course it can also act as a flatbed scanner for regular stuff too, but for scanning books there is nothing like it.
The included OCS bundle also converts to text effortlessly and virtually error free. It can output to MS Word or MS Excel as well as plain text for such programs as Word Pad.
I've tried them all, and there is nothing like this scanner. I can very highly recommend it | |
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