Plustek OpticBook 4800 Non-Destructive Book Scanner, 1200 dpi Optical, 2mm Book Edge Design, Easy to use

Works as perfect as expected. A-1

I bought the scanner for work. It is not reliable. Every time i scan it gives me vertical lines on the pages. I have to delete 5 pages in order to get one good scan. It is a waist of my time.

Gut zum Scannen von Büchern, Farbfotos gehen aber sehr ins Lilafarbstichige, eine Korrektur ist nicht möglich. Die Software halbwegs bedienungsfreundlich. Der Namenzusatz 4800 ist nicht nachvollziehbar, da er normalerweise für 4800 dpi Scanner angebracht wäre. Der Scanner hat 1200 dpi, ist auch so angegeben.

Unit scans fast, and has more contrast that other scanners I have used. But the software authors need to go back to school! (They should actually try to use the apps they write!) App forces you to make a test scan every time you want to access the configuration (contrast, brightness, gamma, scan boundary/auto deskew, filename to generate, etc.) Window where you view to adjust contrast, etc. is so tiny you can't see the effects of the edit, and the window is made non-adjustable so you can'r enlarge it. There is no manual whatsoever. The "online help" is useless, being an endless maze of menu/sub menus you must "bore down through", then saying nothing such as "adjust gamma, brightness, contrast for good image" without explaining what each does (the "gamma" is not real gamma, and it works backwards. When scanning books, there needs to be a way to globally edit a whole batch of images at once.) The good feature is the buttons on the scanner which you configure, then need not touch the PC while scanning. Instead of having "color", "gray", "B/W", I would allow each button total freedom such as "gray photo", "gray text", "color photo", etc. If you scan to file and have your own image editing software you like, then this will work well. The Page Manager makes good PDFs, but will not allow OCR from a PDF. What were they thinking? Most of the other features are either useless, or I can't figure out, or I don't know they exist because again, there is no manual, only the Help maze!

I really wanted to like this scanner, but unfortunately the device, the software and the company fail miserably. I purchased the Optibook 4800 scanner in January of 2016 and since then have had the device completely fail on my 3 times. Initially the scanner would work fine, then after a few months, it would only produce all black images. After contacting the company and working with their Technical Support people, they would determine that a chip had failed and that I would have to ship the scanner back to them to be repaired. It would take over a week of me constantly calling and emailing them to get them to generate an RMA so that I could ship it back to them (at my expense) even though they determined that it needed to be returned on the first day. It would take them another week to repair it and then another week to ship it back. The first time this happened, they shipped back a broken scanner that had to be retuned right away. They will provide Cross Shipping, where they will send you another scanner while yours is being returned, but you have to secure that with a credit card which they charge and then refund when they receive the returned scanner. The software is amateurish at best and seems to have been an afterthought. It is lacking a good deal of fine tuning features. Also, if you use the auto-cropping feature, it tends to shorten the scan after each page, so you loose more of page with each scan. On the whole, I will only use the scanner as long as the warranty and the hardware holds out and will then look for a better scanner and company.