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Plustek Optibook 3600 Scanner

by Plustek
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Product Specifications
General
BrandPlustek
Item Height 10.5 centimetres
Item Width28.5 centimetres
Hard Drive
Hard Drive InterfaceUSB
Additional Specifications
Wattage18 watts
Lithium Battery Energy Content1 watt_hours
Lithium Battery Packagingbatteries_contained_in_equipment
Lithium Battery Voltage1 volts
Lithium Battery Weight1 grams
Number Of Lithium Ion Cells1

Product Features

  • Bluetooth: No
  • Colour Depth in Bits: 48
  • Document Feeder Type: Flatbed
  • Firewire: No
  • Horizontal Scan Resolution in dpi: 1200
  • Maximum Document Size: 12 Inch (30 cm) A4
  • SCSI: No
  • Scan Resolution in dpi: 1200
  • Scanner Type: Flatbed
  • Scanner with Film / Slide Adapter: No
  • USB: Yes

Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 45.3 x 28.5 x 10.5 cm ; 3.4 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 5 Kg
  • Item model number: 91N-BBM31-A
  • ASIN: B00065KA72
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 14 Nov 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,513 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Thanks to 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.

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a universally accepted file format that retains all of the fonts, formatting, colors and graphics of documents that come from an originally created document, regardless of the software application or platform used to create it.

PDF provides more security, reliable and easy transit/exchange of the documents. It could preserve the look and integrity of the original documents, including the fonts, graphics, images and the layout.Easy can be viewed, printed or share documents with anyone, within any operating system and application.

Product Description

Plustek OpticBook3600 OB3600 Scanners Scanners
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Fit for Purpose 8 Oct 2008
The important thing to know about this scanner is that it is very good at scanning books, which is what it was designed for. It is not very good for photograph scanning. I scan books for a living and turn them into digitized facsimile versions on CD. Some of the books I scan are very old and delicate and include some hefty tomes several inches thick. This scanner has saved me hours of work that I used to have to spend "cleaning up" images. It virtually eliminates shadows even on tightly bound books. If I have a book with illustrations, I scan them on a photo scanner at a higher dpi and cut and paste, thus having the best of both worlds. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to scan books, especially if they are text only.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I purchased this scanner about a month ago and I have been extremely pleased with the results. I have scanned over 3000 pages so far and I have found it to be very quick and accurate. It will not solve the problem of some paperbacks that are very closely printed to the spine, but I have had good success scanning 2 pages with the book flat. On a B&W scan there is little shadowing down the spine when the book is scanned flat and absolutely no shadowing on HB books when using the 'edge'. I haven't experienced any problems with the bundled software as yet and I find book pilot excellent. All in all it was money well spent and I recommend it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Scans Books Well 18 April 2010
I have been using this scanner for three months now to scan my personal collection of books. My plan is to be able to read my books anywhere I want (in pdf form) on a 10.1 inch netbook. The scanner works well with Paperport V.11. Books are easy to scan because of the unique shape of the scanning platform. The quality of image is excellent. It scans more quickly than my other traditional scanner. It has not frozen or crashed yet as reported in some other reviews. However, I think that is because the computer I have been using has very little software on it. In fact for the past month I have been using my Acer 10.1 netbook to scan with it and am delighted that it works without a hitch. I do make a point of rebooting my netbook after about three hours of scanning just to avoid overloading the ram memory etc.. If this scanner lasts me for a few years I will be one very happy customer.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Plustek Opticbook 3600
I read all the reviews before buying so I was aware that the software included with this scanner was not very good. It isn't very good in fact, it is appalling. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Keniff
Dodgy software
Absolutely superb book scanner but badly let down by the Page Manager 7 software - would dread to think what versions 1 to 6 were like. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dr W R Fraser
Impressive hardware. Some disappointing software.
Took a couple of days to play around with the main options, but once familiarised with the scanner and the book manager software it was really impressive. Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2009 by C. Bee
Excellent scanner, poor software
This scanner proved excellent for scanning an 18th-century manuscript, although the author had written into the gutter, so each page had to be placed individually on the platten. Read more
Published on 2 April 2009 by S. R. Dunlop
Superb Book Scanner
I bought this scanner to do OCR on books. The comination of the hardware, which allows scanning with the book half-opened and to within 6mm of the edge of the page, plus the... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by Mr C
A very good all round scanner
The Opticbook 3600 is very good for everything, from photos of all tones, documents and email. It has a very high speed scan mode and a lower mode for more detail. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2009 by Mr. Dbe Parker
This scanner is superb
I need to scan antiquarian books, and for this job the 3600 is superb. You can scan even frail books with little stress to the spine. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2008 by Hippo
Awkward
The software is very poor - unintelligible interface, slow, bloated. I've been using the WIA driver instead of the TWAIN so I don't have to use it. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2007 by A reader
Can't handle dark images
I have returned two of these scanners. Although it copes perfectly with light coloured images, it can't cope with dark images. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by Diamanda
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