IRIScan Desk 5 PRO A3 Large Color scanner, PRO A3 Document & Book Scanner

I purchased this scanner and found it very easy and intuitive to use out of the box. But it's a product from 2019, and the software has some issues. JPG and PDF files as output have some errors, and can't be read in some programs. For example, it wasn't possible for me to post a JPG file from this scanner to Facebook without opening it in another editing program and saving it again. The same thing happened with some PDF files that I shared with colleagues. Some people could open them, other people couldn't. I wrote to IRIScan customer support and didn't receive a response. So in spite of the ease of use I returned it to Amazon for a refund.

The software is a bit awkward, but the device is of great quality, and in combination with the one-touch button one can scan books, magazines, and all kinds of unevenly formed logbooks etc. very fast, and best of all can produce indexed (searchable) PDFs and ePubs. I had to put it on a thick book to capture bigger documents, but then it still works fine. I also like that it supports video (even PIP) in order to create demonstration footage! Overall a great allrounder scanner we're very happy to have. Only the software should be a bit more modern.

I ordered both this and the CZUR Ultra. The quality of the scans and the software was better with the CZUR but the quality of the build was better with the Iris. If I had to pick one though it would be this CZUR. Although for what I need to do and how often I need to do it, I'm better off just using my phone and scan software.

Es bastante rápido y con una calidad razonable para scanear mis libros. En mi caso es la razón principal para adquirir un scanner este tipo. Ahorra tiempo porqué sólo se tiene que voltear la hoja por hoja sin dañar el libro ; en comparación al scanner de tipo cama, donde se tiene que apretar o comprimir el libro. Lo probé con libros grandes y pequeños con buenos resultados. El servicio al cliente es bueno y me ayudaron con el ajuste de mi equipo de computo.

It works. However, navigating their website to register (required to get the software), then being required to give them more information to get to the software download site, is horrible. Ads pop up in the middle of filling out their forms--and on my computer the forms never went through. I finally had to use my husband's Mac to fill out the forms, which allowed me to get to the download link, then the download manager informed me it would take between two hours and over a day to download the software. I finally managed it by sending the final download site link to myself on my Windows computer and finishing the download there. It also takes a LOT more light than the scanner provides to do a decent scanning job, and it is impossible to hold down both sides of book pages to scan while also clicking the scan button without either another person to press the button, or the method I employed of putting the button on the floor and using my big toe to press it. Trying to press the button with my little finger while holding the book resulted in bad scans. Note that the automatic timed scanning does not seem to work when scanning books, only when scanning documents, so somebody has to press the button for each page. I convert out-of-copyright books to ebooks and was hoping this scanner would make it easier to do so without having to destroy the book. I'm saving the book, but this method is not as easy as my old method was. Also, the OCR quality is not as good as what I was previously using, perhaps because of the poor scanning from lack of light (even after adding additional lighting), so I have more cleanup to do. If you try to use their direct-to-epub feature, be prepared for a LOT of errors. Finally, the software has bugs. One that is really annoying is that in maximized mode it keeps trying to "hide" the left side of the program behind my taskbar. This might be because I use a UHD monitor with magnification set to 250% because of poor eyesight, and keep my taskbar on the left side of my monitor, but other programs I work with don't have this problem. In short, I'm keeping it because it will let me keep my rarer old books after converting them, but I'm not really happy with the results.