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| Book Scanner | 
 enlarge | Brand: Plustek
Category: CE
List Price: $293.99
Buy New: $236.99
You Save: $57.00 (19%)
New (26) from $236.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15
Dimensions (in): 18 x 11 x 4
MPN: 91N-BBM31-A
Model: 91N-BBM31-A
UPC: 783064352659
EAN: 0783064352659
ASIN: B000VQWE48
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 This is an outstanding scanner for book worms like me!!! November 2, 2008
This book scanner OpticBook model 3600 is ideal on the budget minded researcher that often work with older books and bounded magazines dating as far back as 1865. Scanning older books are near impossible with any other scanner design because you have a margin of plastic surrounding the scanning window. This means you nearly need to destroy the binding of the book trying to get a flat scan of a page. With this scanner the window is all the way to the edge allowing you to place the inner most binding space at 90 degees which puts no pressure of the binding spine of the book.
The scanner is still compact enough for me to take it with my lap top to College research, or public Libraries saving me hundreds of dollars in Copying fees per year.
The copying speed cuts my scanning time by about 33 percent when compared to my 4 years older model that I was using which when you copying up to a thousand pages in one sitting means a lot to me.
I wish I knew about the Plutek OpticBook model 3600 sooner in my earlier years of gathering info from older published books. It would have saved me lots of time for other things.
Neall
 Unique solution to book scanning problem, but not yet perfect June 21, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
Plustek OpticBook 3600 - Nothing Like It May 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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