For books there is another scanner called the Plustek OpticBook. It has great text recognition accuracy, it can export to multiple formats: Searchable PDF, Word Doc, XLS, eBook, TXT, RTF and more.Īnd since we were on the subject of books, this plustek a3 flatbed scanner has a bezel around it so it is not the most friendly for scanning books. The ABBYY is a great Optical Character Recognition software choice especially if you want to scan your book collection on it. This A3 document scanner comes with some software in the package: Plustek DocAction, Plustek MacAction, ABBYY FineReader 12.0 Sprint.
This A3 scanner connects to your Windows PC or Mac through a USB 2.0 port. You get 7 one-touch buttons with pre-set functions and 2 that you can program to perform custom scanning functions. It has a fast scanning speed because it only takes 8 seconds for it to do a full scan at 300 DPI. This is a flatbed scanner with an image resolution of 1600 Dots Per Inch. The Plustek OpticPro A320L is the first large format A3 flatbed scanner that we will be reviewing here.
